Let the Christmas Season Begin...(almost)

Hey - 

atleast I am up to December...

almost!

Thanksgiving weekend included multiple trips 

to Raleigh for us.

First, Thanksgiving Day,

Then, Saturday for the last

NC State Football game of the season

(which was a pitiful season so we

weren't really sorry to see it end)

The kids got a hold of some face paint...

and I didn't stop them...

but I didn't help them either.

Alexis chose green,

not sure why.

She looks a little 

Hulk-ish to me here.

Thankfully we weren't playing 

a green team!

Jackson looks a little scary

and 

zombie-ish...

 And Rico,

well...

I got nuthin.

This was taken after the game on the way home.

Since it was the last game,

and daddy's birthday weekend

and we couldn't get rid of our extra tickets...

we took the littles with us.

On the way home,

we decided to go ahead

start the Christmas season!

We headed to a local tree farm to get our tree!

We seriously,

seriously 

debated trekking to the NC mountains

to get our tree.

But, when we started 

looking at the limited time we had

we decided that 

it wasn't worth the extra money

to make the 5 hour drive

stay in a hotel

and 5 hour drive home

for a tree.

So we stayed local.

We headed out to

Daniel Christmas Tree Farm

We went straight from the game

and 

on the drive out there,

it was getting dark...

quick.

We were almost there

and decided we would give it a shot.

They outfitted us with a couple of 

head flashlights for the boys...

Then Mr. T decided he wasn't in the mood

to go Christmas tree hunting 

in the dark...

so he BEGGED to 

get back in the car

and 

GO HOME!

In order to keep the event a happy one...

we gave into the cranky monster

(and the fact that it was TOO dark

to properly hunt a tree!)

We headed home...

The start to our Christmas season

would have to wait 

One.More.Day