Decorating for Christmas was so much fun this year. We spent the day after Thanksgiving setting up lights outside of our house. It was so fun being in our new house and decorating it for the holidays. We hung icicle lights around the front of the house, and then hung coloured lights around the windows and the two columns in front of our house. It turned out really nice. The next day we went and picked out our Christmas tree. Ashlyn was so excited. She just kept walking around looking at all the really big trees. We finally decided on a 7-8 ft tree and took it home. As you can see by the pictures the tree looks alot bigger when you put it inside your house then it does outside on the Christmas tree lot, but I think it is perfect.

This is Jarom's favorite part of setting up the Christmas tree taking the giant clippers and triming it.

As you can see he did a pretty good job.

This was after we had hung all the decorations. It was so fun showing Ashlyn all of our ornaments and telling her where we got each one.

Our little Elf.

The finished project.

Halloween 2008

This Halloween was so much fun! Ashlyn and I spent the day baking Halloween sugar cookies and then decorating them. I've wanted to start fun holiday traditions that Ashlyn will remember and look forward to every year.

Ashlyn had the most fun decorating the cookies, and it wasn't long before most of the icing was ending up in Ashlyns mouth than on the cookies.

Later in the evening we went over to my Grandmas house and went trick or treating in her neighbourhood. Ashlyn was a little unsure at first, but after the first few houses she knew what was going to happen when she held out her little pumpkin.

Here's a picture of Ashlyn with her loot. She got so much candy that while she wasn't looking we had to hide most of it and only give her a little of what she could actually eat.