It's a very busy time of year.

Well, we have set up the tree. We were actually setting it up when we got the call from the police. So it went from us setting up the tree, to me setting up the tree. That is okay, he was busy talking to everyone we know on the phone.

I like our tree. It is live. It smells great. Sitting right beside it makes me feel Christmas-y.

On our first Christmas, just last year, we decided that we would start our very first Christmas tradition. And that would be that every year we would buy ourselves a new ornament. Something nice, something special. So last year, we bought ourselves one and each of our parents bought us one. I like this tradition. We will be able to have a tree of beautiful ornaments later on that all mean a little something.

And when our kids get older they can look at the ornaments and say "2006, you guys are old. That was sooooooo many years ago!"

This is the ornament we bought for ourselves.

This is the ornament from my parent's for our 1st.

And from the Kotlar's.

And the one that we bought for this year. The little sleighs each say our names.