The National Christmas Tree Comes to Cody...

This year the National Christmas Tree that is put up on the White House lawn, came from Wyoming. The tree and the convoy that was with it, came through Cody on Sunday. Of course, being a small town, it was a BIG deal.....

I have come to the conclusion that no matter what is going on in town, there is ALWAYS a mounted posse. Seriously...what do horses and cowboys have to do with a tree?!?

The banner on the side of the trailer is signed by hundreds of people! I'm thinking that the tree is going to every town in the state!

I thought it was funny that the tree had "secret service guys"! Not really...but there was about 6 U.S. Forest guys with ear pieces and sunglasses. Don't know why I found that so comical, but I did! There was one very serious looking guy that took his job very serious, that I wanted to get a picture of, but I was afraid that he might confiscate my camera!! haha

We didn't get to see the whole tree because it was inside a trailer, but there was a small window at the back where you could see a few branches. They already had a few lights on the part that we could see!

The kids thought that this was a pretty neat experience. In school they made ornaments that will be put on the tree once it gets to the White House. They also signed the banner that was on the side of the trailer...

Halloween 2010

This year I had a beautiful princess and a respectable soldier! We did the downtown thing with some friends on Friday, then went to a small neighborhood on Sunday.

For some reason, Dustin's pumpkin didn't light up very well, so we had to put a flashlight inside to try to get a decent picture.His pumpkin has 3 different faces carved out. It's kinda hard to see in the picture.

Riley Jo did a bear....a very angry looking bear. It turned out really neat.

Our new tradition....

I think that Dustin looks forward to AFTER Halloween more than Halloween itself. He loves to destroy his pumpkin. This year we had a contest, Dustin and I were aiming for one pumpkin, and Matt for the other one. We each had our .22's, and the first one with the totally destroyed pumpkin was the winner! Needless to say, Matt won!

The finished product...

We definitely get our money's worth when it comes to pumpkins! Next year Dustin doesn't even want to carve his pumpkin. Instead he wants to keep it intact and shoot it with one of Matt's bigger guns so it REALLY explodes!

Riley didn't want to shoot any, but she had fun too. She just waited patiently until we were done, then went around and picked up all of the empty shells. What is it with little kids and .22 shells?!?