Christmas in Oregon

The church shuts down the whole week after Christmas so we were able to go down to Oregon after our Christmas Eve services! We spent Christmas day with Victor's dad's side of the family and later that Friday we had cocktail party Christmas with his mom's side. Unfortunately my parents were out of town but we did get to take advantage of their house to ourselves for a couple days which was very much needed! Here are some of the fun, goofy, and darling pictures of our nieces and nephews during our stay...

Tacky Enough?

We had our tacky sweater party with the youth this last week, what do you think?

Christmasy Day!

Last weekend we had a fun day filled with Christmas! Fist, during the day we went to Leavenworth which is a sweet little German town. Every weekend in December there is a tree lighting ceremony.

On our way home we saw a spot light up in the sky. We love to follow them to see how it turns out and the first time we did we ended up at a church at a live Nativity. This time we follow it we ended up at a church again at a drive through live Nativity!

As soon as we were leaving the parking lot of the Nativity we saw a lit up Coca Cola truck drive by. Well as we were already in the Christmas spirit we followed that too! We followed it to a nice neighborhood with the houses all lit up!

Needless to say it was a very fun day for the Alexanders! Merry Christmas :)

O Christmas Tree!

Christmas tree's are mighty spendy so since we are on a tight budget and love adventures we decided to go cut down our own tree this year! $5 for the permit, maybe $10 in gas, and a whole lotta fun!

What a hunk carrying off that big 'ol tree! ;)

What we thought was "little" when it was deep in snow is actually too tall for our house! Are we going to trim it? No, we think it is too funny like that and are going to keep it. No tree topper this year :)