Getting ready for Christmas in Colorado

Next stop on our trip was back home to Colorado. And first order of business was getting Jaydon his first Christmas tree. We went out to a cut your own tree farm which was perfect because then we could get the Jaydon proof tree. Here's grandpa cutting it down for us. When we picked it out and cut it down with such a long trunk I don't think any of us appreciated just how convenient it would be. We set it up and Jaydon crawled right over and that's when we discovered that keeping Jaydon out of the tree wasn't going to be that difficult... ...he couldn't even reach it. No ornaments on the bottom and the Jaydon proofed tree was ready to go. It also started to snow a little so we bundled everyone up and went for a walk so that Jaydon could see his first snow. What we didn't realize is that it was going to snow and snow and snow. Here's us going for a walk the next day.... Some reports claimed that areas of the Grand Valley hadn't received that much snow in a day since the 1920's. Good thing Jaydon has his snugly warm blanket. One final thing to do before Christmas was go visit Santa. Palisade had their own Christmas festivities so we went down to join the fun and tell Santa we'd found one of his reindeer in Doha and flew all the back to get him home before Christmas.