Oh Christmas Tree

Today was our annual trip to get our Christmas Tree. This is quite a big event with families getting together for the afternoon to go out to the Christmas tree farms and walk round picking the perfect tree, we went with the whole Philips clan. After our twig I got free from kijiji last year the rest of the family were determined that our 2012 tree would be an improvement, as you know when you see a tree growing outside it looks quite small so you don't really think about if it will actually fit into the house. We did fairly well with the height but it ended up being a lot more bushy than we realized!

Harriet and Josy getting ready to choose

This was our first choice until we realized it was too prickly!

We used Isaac to measure the trees, this one's too big!

Our tree!

It's probably the biggest tree we've ever had with the least decorations on as we left most of our decorations behind and are still collecting new ones.

Harriet started 4H this week. Max wasn't sure what to make of meeting other dogs and the whole dog training thing. He actually behaved himself  but was by far the most lively dog there.

Molly!

Molly came back from the butchers this week, her hanging weight was 220 lb. I have to say she sure is a tasty pig. We have a number of orders for pork, we've sold out of turkeys for Christmas but still have some geese and ducks. 

Although we've had some snow and very cold weather recently getting as low as -22 degrees, on the whole it's been fairly mild so the snow melts quickly. Tomorrow we have 15-20 cm forecast followed by freezing rain (our least favorite weather),the kids are holding out for another snow day which would be nice.