Daily Scrap Journal: December 2008

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Santa Claus and a Haircut?

We went to the Harrisburg East Mall again this year to visit with Santa Clause while he was there. Toddy didn't want to get his haircut for the occassion, but we did manage to bribe him with a new toy that he could pick out at the big Toys R Us that is nearby the mall. So knowing that he was going to meet with Santa and get a new toy, he agreed to get his hair cut for the occassion.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Christkindle Market

Tonight we (Toddy, me, Arlon, Heidi, and Mammy) went to the Christkindle Market at Mifflinburg. We try to make this a yearly event as it reminds us of the Christmas market in Nuremburg, Germany that we are fond of. We visited all of the shops, watched the singers, a german horn alpine horn player, German Juggle Boy, got our pictures taken with Santa, St Nicholas, German wood carvers making trees on a lathe, and our favorite part - ate Bratwurst!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Getting a Christmas Tree

Toddy, Todd, David and I went looking for our Christmas tree today. It always seems like I pick one of the coldest days of the season to go outside and wander the tree farms looking for that perfect tree. Toddy only spent about 5 minutes out in the cold and went running back to the car, while the rest of us walked around the tree lot to find the tree. Again this year, we were able to find trees that suited me at the first stop that we made. We bought two trees, (one for us and one for mammy) and tied them to the top of my car to deliver them. We almost lost both of them because they weren't tied down tight enough and started to roll off of the car when we went around the turn. When we got to mammy's house, Todd had to crawl out the window because the trees were pinning the doors shut and we couldn't get them open.