Christmas Tree, Santa and Snow

The plan today was to wake up early, pack up and get out the door to get our Christmas tree. While it took us a little longer to get moving this morning, we did eventually make our way to Indian Walk up in Newtown to cut our own tree. We wound up grabbing one of the pre-cut trees, because it looked the best, but while we were there both Cheryl and I took some pictures of Zoe in her super cute reindeer sweater and hat. Take a look.

Zoe obviously has no problems with the cold and loves being out amongst the trees. She still not big on long car rides, even with movies from the iPad, but she's getting better. Since we were in the area, we figured we would swing by the Oxford Valley Mall for a quick meeting with Santa. Cheryl took her in and 30 minutes later we had these gems.

So Santa is not her favorite, but at least she was on his lap. After that magical experience we started to head home. We were told it would snow, but didn't realize just how much would come down. By the time we were half way down 95, traffic was crawling. When we got home, we realized that this is the first real snow that Zoe has ever seen, so we took a few more pictures.

She wasn't really sure what to think of it at first, but on our way to drop off Isaac's present, she got in to touching the snow on trees, bushes and walls. It was a busy day, but our tree smells of pine and we're all set for the holidays. Take a look at Zoe's set on Flickr to see any of the extra pictures that weren't posted here.

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