Our First Christmas as Mr. and Mrs. Eynon

December 2007

Check out our family holiday dance, Biscuit even took dance lessons. I've watched this over and over and still laugh every time.

I love the Christmas season, and it boggles my mind how it seems to creep up faster and faster each year. It has become tradition in our house to get our Christmas tree and decorate our house the weekend after Thanksgiving. It felt really early to be decorating for Christmas this year, it just wasn't feeling like Christmas for some reason, but we did it anyway. Jon and I drove to the greenhouse on the south side where we have purchased our tree for the last 4 years. This is a small, family owned greenhouse, with the same couple and their old golden retriever there every year. To our surprise, there were no trees in sight when we arrived, only poinsettias. Unfortunately, they decided that growing and selling trees was too much trouble. Jon and I felt lost. We literally drove around for an hour in freezing rain trying to find someplace else to buy a tree. We really wanted to avoid buying from some place like Home Depot, we wanted to support a locally owned company. The trees are probably fresher and nicer at a smaller greenhouse, anyway. After three unsuccessful stops, Jon remembered a spot that he thought may have trees. The only problem was, he couldn't remember exactly where this place was. After some random turns and guesses, we found it. Luckily, they had trees! It was one of those days where I had started a million things at home and was quite busy, so we were just going to run out quickly to pick up our tree. We didn't know it was going to turn into a three hour adventure. So, we were both very excited to turn the corner and see fresh Christmas trees all standing in a row. Plus, it was a family run business and they had a cute little Christmas store with cheesy decorations and ornaments. I think we've found our new Christmas tree spot!

This was the day after Jon got his lasik surgery, so he wore his goggles carrying the tree into the house, afraid he would get a pine needle in his eye!

Biscuit loves laying by the tree, thankfully he doesn't eat the ornaments.   I was feeling domestic this weekend (12/15-12/16) and made chocolate covered pretzels and about 7 dozen cutout cookies. Jon even helped me frost and decorate the cookies!   We had a long, stressful drive home to Toledo the Sunday before Christmas. The roads were very icey around Muncie, and then we ran into terrible whiteout blizzard conditions off and on from Fort Wayne to Toledo. Damn lake effect snow! These were taken at a McDonald's off one of the exits in northern Indiana, couldn't see a thing!