Christmas traditions

We have a few Christmas traditions in our family.  We go to the foothills of the eastern Sierras and chop a tree.  This year we just barely got out Reno in Dog Valley just past Verdi.  This is our third trip to Dog Valley.  The first two years were so snowy we didn't get up to the fir trees, but this year the roads were dry and we found a perfect tree... tall and skinny.

We got share in the Bordelon's tree decorating tradition.

Then we invited everyone over to our house to decorate gingerbread cookies

Nick managed to get frosting on the cookies

but Sylvan was mostly interested in getting frosting in his mouth

We had some really great cookies

The cookies are on the tree, but they are getting consumed a little faster this year

And what Christmas is complete without a visit with Santa

A Merry Christmas to all!