Pre Holiday prep

I wanted our Christmas lights up and Danny did not want to put them up, soemthign about it had already frosted the rooftops in the end of November this year adn watching the neighbor fall off his ladder made him a bit worried. So I put up some Snowflake lights on the porch adn colored lights in the bushes. Then we had a pretty good wind storm and it blew out half my snowflakes lights we tried to fix them and no luck so the larger lights must go up! I put up half adn got nervous to do the high peaks and bugged enough to get Danny to help.

See why I was a bit nervous to go up that high by myself.

She thought she was so brave climbing that ladder after daddy.

Lights went up hooray! now time for a snowball fight

Tree hunting at our local farmers market that I like to buy our milk and veggies at. This was not the tree we picked.

This is the tree we got, it was so pretty the best tree we have ever had we bought it Sat Dec 11th and found out that we were heading to Cali for Uncle Doug's funeral and Christmas on the next Wednesday so we got to enjoy it for 4 days. Thank fully my neighbor was kind enough to come over everyday while we were gone almost 2 weeks and water it for us. This is picture it the tree Jan 3rd. We had it til mid Jan until it finally started getting dry. I was happy to come home and enjoy it for a few more weeks

Thankfully I had decided I did not want ot go through the effort of putting the ornaments on adn only did lights and garland.

Brooklyn loved sitting by it and touching it.

Jenny had us all over to make Tamales this was my first year going so I was excited to learn how to make them from Vicotr's mom a true pro. Kimmy enjoyed getting her hands dirty mixing the Masa.

We had a good assembly line going and ended up making about 250 pork, chicken and beef.

The tamale making group, yes that's the corn oil that will last us FOREVER. It was at Costco and Jenny said sure get it they said we needed a Lot! Not quite this much not even 1/4 of it oh well live and learn.