Texas and the Tannenbaum

Well, we're back in Texas. Mark's mom is here and we were planning on coming down on Friday (or maybe even Thursday afternoon), but then Arkansas was going to get a big winter storm so we decided to try to get out before it got snowy and icy. We left Ark. last night and pulled into Central Texas in the middle of the night. It's nice to be here and not where it's getting nasty back at home.

So for all of you watching the radar of our area (Mom), don't worry...we're not on the road and we're staying put at Mark's grandma's house.

I was going to post pictures last night of our time here in Texas last weekend but then we got in the car to travel so that didn't happen. So, here they are now.

At the game...feeling dizzy?

The Alamo, of course.

Mark reading Peter Rabbit to Everett, our cousins' son (I never know what that makes us - second cousins, first cousins once removed?...anyway...)

And now, part of the reason for the title of this post: our Tannebaum in our living room. When we were shopping for houses I kept saying "oh, this won't fit our tree" or "oh, our tree will fit perfectly." We found this tree at a garage sale for $10, so obviously I wasn't going to pick a house (or not pick a house) based solely on that. But, oh how excited I am that the tree fits! We had to move furniture around but I like the way it sits in the corner. I walked outside and you can see the lights glistening through the window in our front door. We haven't put ornaments on it yet, but for now we're enjoying it just with the lights.

Lights off.

Lights on (umm, that canvas will be painted soon...).

Next picture: ornaments on and other Christmas decorations up.