Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas Tree!

I LOVE Christmas! And according to tradition, we set up all our Christmas stuff the day after Thanksgiving. I am one of the people so many of you view as lame.... I have never had a real tree. I've never quiet seen the point of trying to keep a tree from drying out, dealing with allergies, and it being too flimsy to hang much on it.

I still enjoy all the festivity. Drinking egg nog, decorating my mantle, watching Christmas movies.... I waited all day for Johnny to come home just so we could decorate together and it was so great when he got home. We watched the Nativity while we set up our tree. I kinda go all out! In fact, we had so many ornaments I had to leave some in the storage box, guess it's time to downsize.

My one regret is that we didn't take any fun pictures while we were setting up, we always seem to forget! Oh well. The tree turned out great! The Christmas season always just puts a smile on my face that seems to never really go away. Johnny doesn't get as excited as I do but he still loves the Christmas season.
I've been looking at everyone's tree's and they look so great! I love that so many people like to get into the spirit so early! YAY!
~Tori

SNOW

This week has been so Great! I went up with my family to Pagosa Springs, CO on sunday night and Johnny came up on Monday night. It was so nice to just have a break and spend some time together. We got to go on walks and explore the town a bit and have a great thanksgiving dinner (one day early)! We ate on Wednesday so that we could do it with the fam since we had to come back on Thursday morning to make it to Johnny's family get-together still. While we were up there Mandy took pictures of everybody. I feel like we got professional pics taken, it was great!

Yesterday we just went to thanksgiving lunch and then came home and made a fire and watched movies all evening, right before bed I looked outside and there was snow! How perfect is that!? I went out today and got almost all my Christmas shopping done and it's been snowing off and on all day. I'm just sitting here now watching it and listening to Christmas music on 99.5, this is so nice! Starting tomorrow, all hecticness breaks loose once again... but only 2 more weeks till I'm done with school so I'm almost done!!!!!!

Love you all!
~Tori

We've Been Accepted!

We are moving to MONTREAL! We got accepted last friday and had the official meeting yesterday. We are going to be missionaries. They have already given us three books to start reading and have put our names on the Global Adventures website... It is so crazy! It feels surreal. We have about 9 months until we go or so. They have a couple training programs during the summer and we need to build a care team. Let us know if you’d like to be involved! We’ll keep you all posted with what’s going on. It’s pretty exciting!
~Tori