Why I Love Austin

I love Austin. Such a fun place to live with quirky traditions. Last year we noticed people decorated the cedar trees on Loop 360. Conner wanted to decorate one badly, but I wasn't ready to attempt it with a 2 yr old and 1 yr old. Last night we arrived with bags of ornaments from the Dollar Tree and started decorating!!

Picking out our tree. Shep armed with some ornaments and his dragon (aka, a big stick)

Shep helped for a few minutes, but he was much more interested in exploring.

Conner had such a blast. He'd been talking about doing this for months.

While exploring Shep started collecting all the ornaments that had fallen off other trees. (I only saw him take an ornament off another tree once, but he put it back:) A purple one!

Here he comes with a green sparkly one.

"Momma a pink sparkly ornament!!"

Hanging up his prize.

Well, now he found a red one. Ok, Shep, that's enough.

Finished!!

The boys can't wait to drive to church tomorrow and see their tree all decorated on the side of the road.

We aren't out much at night, so we don't see many sunsets.

It was such a fun, beautiful Thanksgiving. Breakfast and Macy's Parade. Yummy dinner with friends. Football. Fun outside. Thank you, God, for my life.