This is the life...: a little Christmas Tree...and a little football

With crawling only around the corner, we decided that a tabletop tree would be a smarter idea this year. So we made the trip out to my uncle Bob's tree farm and cut down a little tree. It's the smallest tree I've ever had, but it's so cute.

Since we got rid of our pre-lit artificial tree, we were on the hunt for lights. Didn't know that would be the worst part of the day! I can't believe that EVERYWHERE is out of lights already. Brian really wanted red lights, you know Husker colors :) And there were none to be found until I got to good ol' Menards. After already being at two Targets and Wal-Mart, I pretty much took the lights and ran before anyone could get them! Our tree is so little it only took two strings, so that was nice. The new LED lights are pretty nice, it definitely brightened up everything. Since we have always had a full size tree, our ornaments fill up the tree...no problem. But it's cute and makes the house look all ready for the holiday season.

After setting up the tree all of us got settled in for the big Nebraska game. Although they lost it was a very close game. Husker got a little scared of Brian cheering and decided we all needed to be on the couch together!

Speaking of football; each year Brian starts up the College Bowl Pick' Em Tournament. I think he is still disappointed that I've beaten him a few times already, but he keeps trying. This year he wanted to make sure Blake got involved. He wanted to make it extremely fair, being the accountant t

hat he is, so he set up a very scientific way of choosing the game. Take a look. He associated each team with a block, and then squeeked each block equally and which ever one he touched first. YES, he did this for 32 teams. He didn't get a choice for the Nebraska or Minnesota games, Brian gave those to him automatically. Of course Brian would never let Blake pick against the Big Red, and although he's not a Gopher fan, a certain Grandma REALLY is, and it was in kind gesture.

And as always closing with some bonus pictures--

Until next time...

[caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Husker "watching" Blake sleep on the way home from the tree farm."]