A couple of events at home....

I went skiing on Saturday! I would have liked to have gotten some pictures but we forgot :(. I really enjoyed it and got fairly good at it by the end (on the easy spots anyways :). It was interesting figuring out how to turn (I didn't have anyone to teach me), but I had watched an online video and that helped a bit. To turn you have to push on the ski that is on the outside of the turn so as I turned I was saying in my head "right, right, right" and "left, left, left" telling myself which foot to push on :). The first time going down on an easy trail I fell about 7 or 8 times but on the second it was only 3 or 4 and got better. We went further up the mountain and the easy one up there was better (not so icy) and I could go the whole way without falling. When I got home I discovered more than 15 bruises on the inside of my calves from crashing and landing on the other ski :).

This week we have started decorating for Christmas and got our tree up, it is huge, has huge bare spots and is FREE! We were able to get it out of our own forest and therefore it fit our budget :)

The reason for the season! I love these ornaments.

Jeremy put ONE ornament on the tree, he is looking down because he kind of just threw it on and it dropped but hung itself on the way :)

Isn't she just the cutest thing on earth! She even has food all over her and she is still cute!

Here is our "Charley Brown Tree on Steroids"

It fell over halfway through decorating it! It had water in it already so we had to mop it up with towels.

Tomorrow Celene (my horse) is getting her hooves trimmed for the first time, we will see how that goes. I haven't ever watched it being done so I am not sure of how to prepare her either, she is okay most of the time on picking up her feet but I don't know how she does with a stranger. Please pray that it will go well! I so need her to have a good first experience!