Mouse in the Kitchen

I just want to come over to the blog and mention that I found this in the kitchen this morning:

My husband has a story for this one and I will try to remember all the details...

So last night we were making homemade pizza and Caleb went to look for the yeast in the cupboard. When he opened up the cupboard, he found the starcrunch sitting all by its lonesome. So, in order for me not to become suspicious, he hid behind the cupboard door and ruffled some chip bags and other cupboard items as he ate a bite of the starcrunch. He then found the yeast and forgot completely about the snack and shut the cupboard to start the pizzza crust. THIS MORNING I open the cupboard to get things for lunches and this image is what I found. I went to the bathroom and asked him what had happened. His cheeks became red and he giggled as he told me the story.

He is pretty adorable to me and I love him a lot. End of story.

Decorating the Lovely Pine

We got home and sneaked our real tree into our home. We are still unsure if Saint Paul allows real trees in small apartments but we never asked so I guess the Lord will look down upon us with favor if we still have it by Christmas.

Judging? Please don't.

The following day we went to Target to get the lights Caleb needed. Okay, my boy NEEDS colored lights on his tree. WHY, WHY OH WHY?!?!?! I do not care for colored lights and never really thought I would own some on my first tree, EVER. Needless to say, we have colored lights on our first tree. Some may find it fascinating that a boy could love Christmas as much as my boy but it is very true, Caleb has passions and one of those passions is Christmas and everything Christmas. There is no negotiating when it comes to decor and "how-to" do Christmas. This is a battle that is more fun to watch then to participate in frustrating him so I just watch and giggle.

Here is the Tuesday night we shared together... decorating:

Cute! I love him and we loves this tree.

Caleb being artsy... pretty good, eh?

 

Until next time, Merry Tree Decorating. We created Christmas cards today, you are gonna love them!

Tree Hunting

Caleb and I got back from Turkey weekend and we feel beyond blessed. I absolutely love family immediate and extended. There are things that went not as planned like Caleb getting a terrible a back ache that made him semi-immobile. It was hard to watch him suffer but he was such a trooper. It was great to watch the "Able Lincoln" movie with some of the Klinge siblings especially the quatity of popcorn and soda we consumed. Ha. So on the way home from Iowa we stopped at Budd Tree Farm in Albert Lea, MN and picked up our tree. It was necessary to watch the last of the bears game so when we got to the MN border the sun was a-leaving. We were not panicked as we didn't think it was going to take long to find our tree. We got lost, people. It was PITCH black when we got to the tree farm but Levi's, one of the ushers and great friend of Caleb, dad was willing to let us look. We drove around like mad men and then ran around to find prices. We thought we had taken enough money but we found out fast a real tree is not cheap so we looked for longer than we anticipated. Then, there it was. Just standing there.

We got a big, bushy (and very prickly) Christmas tree. Our very first family tree. It was beautiful. We took it to be paid for and we were off.

We lugged it on top of the camry and rode the whole 1.5 hours home to put it up the next day. This was a sentimental day for us and we are very pleased with it thus far.

Day or Night, Light or dark...we found it!