Grandma and Grandpa took us to Branson for our annual Christmas fishing/shopping trip. The weather was excellent and fishing was good. We stayed in big cabin west of Branson that was awesome. Grandma and Grandpa took Kyler and Katherine to Silver Dollar City for a day while we went shopping. Kyler said she had a blast on the rides.

Grandma and Grandpa took us all to the Dixie Stampede in Branson. As it turned out they don't offer a kids menu. Kyler wasn't sure what to do with that much food, Kennedie on the other hand knew exactly what to do.

The first snow of the year. It turned out to be pretty good for making a snow man, even if it did take all of the snow from the yard.

The girls got to open one present at Grandma's after decorating the tree, and here they are showing off their new toys and nightgowns!!

We had a big day last Saturday doing our yearly putting up our and Grandma and Grandpa's trees.
We started out with our tree, and it is tradition that Daddy hold up Kyler, and she puts the angel
on the tree. We had to add Kennedie to the tradition since she is old enough now to "help". We went
out after that to build a snowman from our first snow of the year. The snowman didn't last long,
the snow had almost all melted by day's end. That evening we went to Grandma and Grandpa
Schlies' to decorate their tree and take family pictures for Christmas cards. The kids had
a lot of fun!