Grandma Salmon's Birthday

Sunday, December 7th was mom's - Grandma's Birthday so we all meet at my house for the big celebration, she probably hate's her birthday this month along with her anniversary on the 16th. We try not to mesh it together with Christmas but somehow we always manage to throw a little party-giftexchange into the mixture (sorry mom).
We ate chicken balls for dinner requested by her. Stephanie made a nummy peppermint ice cream dessert.

Travis had th idea of going around the circle while we ate and say something we love about mom-grandma, some of the things said were we love that she buy's us stuff, which she always is surprising them with little gifts, others said her unconditional love for us and the grandkids. She is always making time for us especially when we call at the last second, She will drop everything just to help out. She definatly is the most unselfish person I know and there is no way we would survive this raising kid stuff without her. WE LOVE YOU MOM!

UGLY SWEATER PARTY

You would have gotten some good laughs to see us on saturday night, the contest was to see who could come in the ugliest christmas sweater. Many of us took it to a whole nother level, who could come in the ugliest outfit! Dustin Hansen won for coming dressed like cousin Eddie from Christmas Vacation, Ranae won for coming as I really don't know what maybe santa's helper it was hilarious anyway we played some fun games and ate a delicous dinner.

Decorating the Tree

Well after a week, I can finally say the tree is done (until it tips over) which it did last year. We finally got smart and braced it with fishing line. So it took Travis and I about 8 hours to put on the lights (3000 lights) then we let the boys decorate from about the bottom third down. They are so excited about it and I am already dreading taking it down.

CUTTING DOWN THE TREE

Well we did it again, we managed to find the biggest tree ever (that would fit in our family room, 18ft tall) and we cut it down. It is a pretty big task. Every year I try to talk myself out of getting such a big tree but for some insane reason I seem to end up with one anyway. Oh well when it is all said and done I guess it is worth it. Right? We did have quiet the day driving to the Unitas, the streets were covered with black ice, that made it fun while pulling a 16ft trailer with four wheelers on the back. By the end of the day I think we avoided about a dozen car accidents and we ended up getting towed about 4 times, there were cars off the road everywhere, and a 7 car pileup right in front of us, it made for some good memories.
We went with our neighbors the Finch's and the Moons, both of their first time to cut down a tree for Christmas (hopefully not their last) It has been a family tradition of ours for quiet some time now and it really is a lot of fun.