Indoor Girl

I am basically an indoor girl.  I think camping sucks (the bugs live outside you know) and I don't like getting rain on my face (and it rains here all the time so I have lots of umbrellas).  Sooooo when I looked outside and saw rain today I thought, "guess we're not going to cut down our own tree this year."  I was mistaken.........and I got a lecture on it! 

Apparently a tradition is a TRADITION and it doesn't matter the weather, rain, snow, sleet or hail (since when are we the post office Snuffy???)!  So we went and had a hoot!

The girls got into their snow suits, boots and mitts and we all tramped around the field looking at all the poor little Charlie Brown trees that won't be ready till next year!  I'll tell ya, it was slim pickin's!  However, this was to our advantage because our scrawny tree that would normally be $40, she gave us for $20.  Perhaps she felt sorry for our soaked little gang!

Then the girls got to their favourite part - the hot chocolate (and candy canes)!  They looked so cute blowing the heat off of it! 

I also had a brilliant idea on the way home!  To set up the tree in our downstairs playroom instead of upstairs where Skyler will be at it constantly and drive me totally mad before Christmas (prompting me to throw the tree out the 2nd story window, ornies and all!)  I am a GENIUS!!! (and clearly don't have a problem with self esteem! LOL) So now it is finally starting to smell and look like Christmas around here!

PS - i think for Christmas I might just get my den built downstairs as Snuffy has been at it most of the day - wooo hooo!