Saturday, that's play day

We had great plans today to go up the mountain with some friends to cut down a Christmas tree, roast hot dogs, and go sledding. However, by this morning, all of our friends had backed out on us. We don't have a 4 wheel drive vehicle and it would have looked funny driving our little car with a tree on top. Also, with me being pregnant and can lift a whole lot and with Ryan's injured back, we decided it probably wouldn't be the best thing for us to do by ourselves. I was pretty disappointed. Everyone decided to go up next weekend, but we'll be out of town, so we ended up going and buying a tree. It's a tradition for us to go cut one down every year. This is the first year we've had to go buy one. Anyways, we still decided to do dinner but it turned out to be a BBQ. We had six families at our house and lots of little ones running around wild. We ate and then played Battle of the Sexes. If you've never played that game with Ryan, I'll warn you now: he's good at it! Needless to say, the girls lost. But it was close! Ryan also had fun playing with the kiddos and got beat up a little. Here are some pictures of their dog pile! We had a great night.