Family picture

So yesterday we had a Christmas concert with our church which was very exciting! Afterwards, we took a family picture with my side of the family, which is always interesting trying to round everyone up on one spot, then finding someone to take the picture. Anyways, it all worked out and we finally got it taken. It was a lot better than last year when we all went to the mall and got one taken with Santa!

Lauren and I are both looking forward to next week when she has four days off for Christmas. We are going to San Jose for two and then to Orange County, CA for two days. It should be a lot of fun. Oh yeah, I just finished finals too! Woohoo!! Now I've just got to study for the licensing exam in January...

Putting up our Christmas tree

So this year we got a slightly bigger tree than last year. We decided to go with a fake tree so that our cat wouldn't drink the water! As usual, we had a lot of fun with our tradition of putting up the ornaments, drinking hot chocolate, eating popcorn, and listening to Christmas music. Here is the finished product of the tree with some presents already underneath! Below are some pictures of the evening...

curious cat

So one of the small branches fell off of our fake tree and Casey was just loving it. He was going nuts throwing it all around.

putting up ornaments

Here is a few pictures of us putting up some ornaments on our tree. Last year our tree was about 2 feet tall and this year it's 6.5 feet tall!

enjoying hot chocolate

Since our cat can't take pictures of us (yet), we had to take separate pictures of us...

casey sniffing around our tree...