Thanks Giving Family Fun

We celebrated Thanks Giving with Ryans family on Thrusday. We brought my dad along for the feast and we had a really great day.  There were about 10 adults and 5 or 6 little kidlets running around.  Baby Nixon walking all over the house just as happy as can be, and Dawson excited to have cousins close to his age to play with from his dad's side of the family.  Here are a few pictures of the family and feast.

Nixon ready for some grub

Don ready to carve the roast beast (turkey actually)

The family picture that will soon be on a christmas card i bet.

My daddy

This picture is a veiw from the top of the hill we live on looking down at the vineyard and the nursery. The yellow is the vines from the grapes and the red and other colors are from the nursery, its beautiful to drive around right now if you can catch a day without rain.

My husband seems to have an obsession with finding free things off the intrenet from craigslist or ebay or somewhere and going to get them and turning them into something amazing.   Well he found his next project and spent the weekend at the coast in Lincoln city tearing apart an old 5th wheel trailer.  His plan is to turn it into a flat bed trailer he can eventually use to haul cars or lumber or the tractor.  This is an idea of what it used to look like

So Ross and Ryan went crazy and ripped apart this old 5th wheel. Ry took down his truck and his big trailor that is like 24 feet long.  When they got to the coast to look at this trailor and start working on it they found out that it is really 32 feet long. this trailor hung off ryan's trailor by 12 feet! Thats longer than my car.  I didn't go with him to do all this and he forgot to take the camera so they only pictures i have are of the whole set up when he finally got it home. 

Close up of the trailor on top of the trailor. what a redneck thing to do.

The tires of the 5th wheel thing are on the very edge of the big trailor and it still hangs off 12 feet!

We also went this weekend to pick out our christmas tree.  We decided that for our frist christmas together, since we don't have very much decoration stuff and no tree yet, that we would get a real one this year and go to the after christmas sells and buy a pre-light fake tree.  Off we went to a you-cut place where you wonder around in the mud and cold and find a tree you like and chop it down.  My redneck husband decideds that the little hand saw's aren't good enough...he needed his chain saw.

This is the tree we picked out.  a 7ish foot tall Noble fur tree. its so pretty. 

Ry and Ross chopping down our christmas tree.

And then my HE-Man of a husband decided that instead of waiting for the guy in the little 4-wheeler trailor to come get our tree he would just carry it back up the hill.  crazy dude.   The tree is now safely inside the garage "drying off" says ryan.  Hopefully we can bring it in the house and get it all cute and holidayish tonight.  im so excited!  Happy Holidays friends and Family!