Ladybugs & Stinkbugs

Every year we go out to the Christmas Tree farm and pick out our Christmas Tree. This year they got pretty beat up by the hurricane, so we're calling our tree the "Ike Tree". It looks great, but we're leaning a little bit... Here are what some of the trees looked like, though - they really took a beating:

Annie wanted this one:

 

But Jeremy wanted this one:

 

so that's the one we took home.

The kids had so much fun playing at the Christmas tree farm. Especially when we found the tree that we wanted, they always really get into the process.

 

Here are my little ducklings, all in a row!

And here is their favorite part - they put the tree on a "shaker" machine that shakes out all the excess pine needles, dirt, etc. See Annie's "shaker dance"!