Tree Farm

The girls got to go to the Christmas Tree Farm to help us pick out a Christmas tree.  Jillian didn't seem to like any I found but we finally settled on a good tree.  (That's Jillian's stuffed dog peeking out from her coat. It needed to keep warm.)

Jillian's job was to push the tree over to help Papa.  Then after Papa got the tree set up at home, Bridget and mostly Jillian helped decorate the tree.  Jillian was delighted to unwrap each ornament to see what it was and I tried to tell her the story behind each one.  Many of the ornaments were from my former students and Jillian still doesn't seem to make that association.  Bridget would carry around one ornament for a long time, play with it, and finally put it on the tree.

They didn't have naps so they slept the whole way to White Salmon for the boys basketball game-boys won.  I set up a blanket in the corner and corralled them there, so they played with toys the whole time.  It worked better than the bleachers.