Plan B

Today we had intended on driving out into the Virginia countryside to a tree farm and chopping down our Christmas tree. This has become an annual tradition that we usually observe the Friday after Thanksgiving. This year, since we had a lot of family in town we decided to delay the event a week. Apparently the weather didn't get the memo about our change in plans as it rained all morning and then turned into snow this afternoon.

We couldn't bring ourselves to go to Lowe's or something along those lines...but we (okay, "I") wasn't really excited about the 45 minute drive in terrible conditions to go to a muddy tree farm and have wet, cold and dirty kids. So...somehow "Plan B" evolved into going out for lunch and then buying a tree from the boy scouts at the church down the street. They have a cute set up in a wooded area with lights strung overhead. It wasn't our normal tradition...but it was much faster and easier and the girls were just happy to throw a few snowballs!

Our tree! I can't wait to see what it looks like in our house...this year I hung out with Morgan in the car and only joined in to snap a few pictures. I decided that we're starting to have too many opinions and as long as the girls were excited I truly didn't care.

Another good thing about hanging out in the car is that the girls only attacked Daddy with snowballs, and not me!