Getting our Christmas tree

We've been busy this past week. As mentioned in the last blog, we had company on December 7th for the night. Our square dance friend, Mike, came to visit. He had dinner, enjoyed some time in the hot tub, watched Happy Feet on our new TV, and spent the night in our guest room - our very first visitor. Saturday we headed to Yakima for a square dance. We danced a little in the afternoon, had dinner at the square dance hall, and then danced again that evening. We spent the night in a motel and headed back to Wenatchee on Sunday morning.

Sunday night we drove to Leavenworth where we watched the tree lighting with Connie's brother, Steve and wife, Nancy, and son, Brian, and wife, Toddi. We then had dinner at Visconti's Italian restauraunt. The next day Steve and Nancy came over to see our new home.

Saturday, the 15th, we headed up towards Mission Ridge ski area to get our Christmas tree. For $5 - you can cut your own tree in the national forest. We snowshoed in about 1/2 a mile and picked out a tree. Brian and Toddi and their two dogs were with us. The dogs sure did enjoy the snow. Brian brought a sled for transporting the tree back to the truck. He made it look pretty easy. Today, Sunday, we put up the tree and decorated it. It's sort of a Charlie Brown tree, but we like it. With our new vaulted ceilings we were able to have a pretty tall tree.