We cut down our own tree this year! We all had a lot of fun! Thanks Holly and Nate!!

We had been very careful all day to watch Emmie around all the tools and somehow Ben and I left the room at the same time for about 5 minutes when we heard Emmie cry. She had blood running all the way down her face but was mostly done crying when Ben got to her. She's such a tough girl! We just butterflied it and now it looks pretty good. Maybe a small scar but it is in her eyebrow so it shouldn't be too bad!

We refinished the hardwwod floor in our pretty room. Wow it was a lot of work! The job would have been big enough on its own but the last layer of carpet (yes there was two layers of carpet) was glued to the wood!! We (and by that I mean mostly Ben) spent many hours scraping and sanding the wood! It looks beautiful now and we have the original hardwood floors from over 100 years ago! How cool is that!!!