Piggy-tails

After Anna's bath her hair always seems so long....so this evening I started playing with it and realized I could get it into two pig-tails....sort of. She looked too cute! I took her out to the living room to show Craig. He laughed. He loved it!

The only hang- up is after about a minute and a half she realizes something's in her hair and she pulls and pulls until it's out. This is a brand new girly experience for me. How long will this last, I wonder. Should I just keep trying to get her used to hair "pretties"? Parenting is always such a learning experience......haha!

Turning 30

December 17th was my 30th Birthday. Craig and I spent our first night without kids in a hotel since before Will was born! It was wonderful. We shopped all day at the Lincoln City outlet malls, had a nice, romantic dinner at Kyllos, and watched a movie....in the theater!! (another rarity:) We returned home Sunday very rested and rejuvenated. Ama and Papa were so kind to stay with the kiddos at our house. Turning 30 was great!

It's always an adventure!

Today we headed out toward the Alsea River to find the perfect Christmas tree. We had high hopes, and were bound and determined to get the most out of our $5 permits! Turns out the tree pickin's were slim, but the adventure was great! After hiking the mountainside we finally settled on this one (here's Will and I showing it off before Craig cut it down). Later, Craig felt bad I didn't get a beautiful perfect tree (it's more along the lines of a Charlie Brown tree, but I like to call it a "wild" tree:). We talked about the memories we made, and I reminded him, "honey, it's just the Button way". Which it truly was.

Plus we got TWO tree's for $10 and so the boys got to put the smaller one in their room and decorate it, which they LOVED!

Anna joined in on the decorating. She managed to eat, break, and take off several ornaments! I should be busy these next couple weeks :)

Getting out the ornaments.....

The three in front of the finished product!