holiday pics

--> Dad and I after cutting down our "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree. You better believe we chose the smaller of these two trees to take home with us! Mom got it really dressed up though and made it look pretty in the living room. She claims she's not an artist but if that were true she wouldn't pick a tree that needs so much work haha. The day before I was leaving I noticed that most everyone in our neighborhood had their trees out by the street, including us. Everyone else had such beautiful, big, full trees that I could visualize with ornaments and lights set up in their living room windows.. I burst out laughing as I came around the corner and saw our little branch that had been blown into the middle of the driveway. Haha!


--> My sister and I in Banff, Alberta. We joked the whole week before leaving, "Who goes to Canada in the middle of Winter?" I learned, though, that loads of people go to Canada in the Winter for the huge array of winter sports, not to mention it was warmer in Canada than it was in Iowa. I was beautiful!