'Tis the Season!

After last weekend's jam packed schedule and visitors, we were looking forward to kicking of our first Christmas as a family with an outing to a tree farm. Juan had never chopped his own tree and Elena, well Elena has never even seen a Christmas tree! Little Elena was a trooper and let us bundle her up to brave the cold temperatures. She was just like Ralphie in a Christmas story.

We headed out to Freezer's Organic Tree farm in Marriottsville MD and were so excited to get started. We quickly learned that we picked the wrong tree farm. There were literally no acceptable trees on the field. They did however have great Fraiser Firs that were cut in from PA yesterday. We decided to go with one of the pre-cut trees.

Once we got back home and started decorating for Christmas, it started snowing-- the first flakes in Baltimore this season. I'm very happy with the outcome of our adventure and Elena is fascinated by the lights and shiny ornaments.