Tis the Season...

Our holiday season started with our favorite tradition... Christmas tree hunting. Simone had lots of fun running around the tree farm, through the prickly trees.

And once again, we found the perfect blue spruce. Simone supervised the cutting.

And then helped pull it off the mountain.

It took some maneuvering...

And ended with a sweet treat.

Then the week before Christmas we went to the National Harbor for a tree lighting and the ICE show. It was beautiful and super-crazy FREEZING. The ice display was kept a bone chilling 9 degrees farenheit. We wore special parkas to survive ...lol. (Tony barely made it!)

Amazing (and huge) ice sculptures.... absolutely beautiful.

The masterpiece was a life size castle complete with sliding boards made completely of ice.

Simone was so bundled up she couldn't keep herself upright on the ice slide. She came down on her back twice and then decided that wasn't so fun. Look closely to see her -- the pinkish greenish blur at the bottom. lol.