Wednesday, December 7

The song from Beezus and Ramona

Tuesday, December 6

The Tree Hunt



It's become a regular Vining/Bradford tradition (2010, 2009, and 2008), to head out to historic Kirchem farm to smote down a nice Oregon tree for our holiday. This year the Vining/Rocks joined us, as did the Sr. Vinings. They got out of there so fast we could hardly snap a picture of them though.


Fortunately, they left Ida with us, and we had a rollicking good time selecting a tree the old fashioned way: slowly.


Ida took this picture of us:


The girls selected this tree, which was a little too proper-looking for Maggie's taste, but luckily she let it go this time.


They had hay rides at the farm!




back in 2008: