Tree cutting adventure

One of our family Christmas traditions is to cut our Christmas trees after Thanksgiving.  This year was probably the best year yet.  We had the whole family.  The weather was good.  We had a ton of snow which made it beautiful plus more fun because we all needed snow shoes.  Great day!

My sweet Karen and her Papa

One tree down, 4 to go.

 

 

 

Gracie looked like a little pink snow girl.

 

 

 

 

Second tree found for Jim's family.

Mindy's family found a nice tree for their new house.

 

 

  Jake, a big Utah fan, wore his Utah hat, as he cut the tree, for good luck in the UofU/BYU game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark, Jenn and Chi Chi chose a little tree.

 

Hahaha, Mark could carry his tree with one hand.

 

Tom and Megan are on a mission to find the best tree.   

 

They are ready with saw in hand.

 

It took two to carry their very first Christmas tree off the mountain.

Dan and John carry our tree to the truck.

 

Success!  Five trees for our family plus one for the grandparents and one for a friend.

Taking a Family Portrait

We've been trying for months to get this group of 14 together for a family pic.  It's been nearly impossible.  Finally, we found a day.  Last Saturday, November 20, was it.  I watched the forecast as the day approached and it didn't look good.  I had some out door settings but no inside settings for the picture.  I didn't know what to do.  If we canceled it may take another 6 months before we could get together again and Mindy's little pouch is growing (yes, that is an announcement) so we needed to do it ASAP.  On Saturday morning, as Mindy and Jake were driving up from Bountiful, it started to rain.  Oh well, we had our day and we went with it.

As we were getting ready it was lightly raining.

We used my son, Mark, as our photographer.  Hooray for camera timers.   He used the towel to protect the camera from the rain.  The singing Snowman in front of the camera was used to get the grandchildren's attention with marginal success.

This one looks pretty good, except, look at the babies.  Hahahaha.  Mark thinks he can fix them with photo shop.

Once again, this is good of everyone EXCEPT THE BABIES!  Oh well, photo shop.

As an after thought we did some family groups.  I love these.

Dan and Nan

Mark and Jenn

Mindy,  Jake and Cash

Sarah, Jim and Gracie

Megan and Tom

This is not the final pic but I love it.  Cash and Gracie had had it and Karen and John had fun trying to keep them happy.

This family pic will be up to date for 7 months, until Mindy has her baby in June.  Then, we'll try again.