oh christmas tree.

it was a bit of a busy week at the gillies house this week.

we hit up basketball games, babysat colter and lots of errands in between.

thursday night madyn had another literacy night over at head start.

she loves going and seeing her teachers and friends.

madyn had a half day on friday and they took a field trip over to walmart.

so i stayed and had breakfast with her and her class 

then went on the field trip with them all.

it was quite the experience...

the i took off to cheyenne to get some christmas shopping done.

and if i do say so myself, i would say it was a pretty successful trip.

and it always makes me happy just to walk around Target....

especially without a husband rushing me along... and my tiny terror being impatient.

lol.

when i got back into town me and mads went over to karens house for a party.

and ended up spending most of the night over there...

madyn has finally warmed up to karen,

despite her having a cat at her house.

saturday we got up and headed to the mountains to pick us out a christmas tree.

it didnt seem too bad out.... but the further we got from laramie the worse the weather got.

it was kinda nasty with the wind blowing.

and of course little miss was not in the mood to do any of this.

we brought the sled figuring she would be happy with that.... nope...

she just wanted to be carried.

so it was a bit of a miserable trip.

but we found a tree so we were happy.

that afternoon when we got home my head was killing me and i was exhausted.

so i rested for a bit... but madyn was pretty anxious to start decorating.

so we got the tree up and all decorated.

i kind of love this time of year!

it makes my heart happy :)