a month???? already?

Has it really been an entire month since I have blogged at all?  Wow...Much has happened in that month that I could blog about, but life has been such a whirwind that it hasn't happened.  I'm exhausted after not sleeping much last night, but am waiting on the sweating to stop after working out, so thought I'd share a couple of pictures.  (Sorry, was that too much info for you...about sweating?)  Anyway...for the first time in our married life, we took the fam to get a Christmas tree the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.  We always wait until December, but hubby was up for it, so we jumped at the chance and off we went....we went to one place that we often go...not open until the next week...so then I mention a place that a friend from church had mentioned...so we drove to try to find that one...found it....yep, you guessed it...opening the following week...at this point the kids were getting very disappointed (so was I).  We decided to drive through the Lowe's parking lot to see if they had any.  They did!!!  So we figured we wouldn't find any decent ones but vowed to at least look.  The very first tree we looked at was the one we agreed on after looking at quite a few others.  AND...the best part was that it was waaaaaayyyy cheaper than the other places...ahhhh.  A bargain and a Christmas tree????  I was in heaven! HA!  Anyway...we came home, put it up together, Daddy strung the lights.  The kids and I put on the decorations and we are happily basking in it's glow ever since!  Kiara likes to peek out from behind it as you can see from the one picture.  But, thankfully, she doesn't seem to even want to bother with it.  It poked her once and apparently she learned her lesson! HA!