Winter Fun

 For a couple of years, we've had fun trimming some evergreens on our own land to use for Christmas trees some year. This year we cut our first one off the land and brought it home to fill the extra space in the dining room. Sometimes if they don't have that perfect full and fat shape it adds an old touch that fits our old farmhouse.

Pam having fun decorating our tree in the dining room. It was Pam's idea to use the extra space in there to put a Christmas tree, and we all loved it!

It's always fun to help Gramp and Gram decorate for Christmas! This is Great-Great Grandma's village that Pam's putting up. Gram always has done such a great job of preserving some of the great old family decorations.

We did their tree in gold with burgundy bows this year. It really looked nice. It's a good thing we had Gramp there to tell us if some of the ornaments needed to be adjusted or let us know if the tree was "leaning toward Sawyers" (don't ask me which direction that is). Gramp is always so much fun!

Christmas at Matt and Victoria's was a blast! We had their Christmas on Sunday and ours on Monday so it wasn't too hectic all in one day. I love Mrs. Wardwell's stockings she makes for the kids. She does such a great job!

This year we heard about a new place to skate over on Billy Grant's bog. He keeps it nice and cleared off to make a nice place to go skating. He said we were welcome to have fun skating over there, so we tried it out, and it is the best ice I've seen! We've been having a blast!

It was about 10 degrees that morning, so we only skated for about an hour when our toes began to feel about 10 degrees also. So we went home to warm up by the fire and talk about what to do next. We very very rarely all get a Saturday off together, so we were going to make the best of it!

So after we warmed up, we decided to head off to Hermon Mountain and  go skiing. It had been several years since we'd been skiing, so it took a little bit to get the hang of it again, but we sure did have a great time! There's nothing like the feeling of skiing toward the woods and not being sure exactly how or if you'll be able to stop. :-) Good times!