Behold, our beautiful Christmas tree. Yesterday, we bought ourselves a tree permit and went up to the hills and cut ourselves a Christmas tree. A blizzard had just blown in during the morning and we had given up hope of going out and getting our Christmas tree when everything cleared up and the sky turned blue. We quickly dressed the kids up again and packed in the car. We were so excited. Our vision of a lush and full tree had to be modified when we realized that Idaho doesn't have those types of trees. Either that or we just didn't know where to go for the nice ones. All the trees were scrawny and sparse. So we picked the best one we could and even then Nathan tied some extra branches onto the trunk to fill it out a little. We're happy with it though. We made some Christmas stars but they're a little too big and make the tree look even more scrawny but oh well. I like to call it "quaint". Benny loves it. He wanted to stay up late just to look at the Christmas tree and when he woke up in the morning he cried when he saw the lights were turned off so we keep the lights on for him during the day. He just loved decorating the tree. He would put a star up and Ephraim would take it down. They made quite a team. The stars gradually inched their way higher on the tree so that Ephraim wouldn't be able to reach them. So only the top half is really decorated. She's a beaut!