Sleeping in a Fort/Real Tree or fake tree? *November 5th, 2011*

Max and Elese built a fort in the front room and asked to sleep in it.  I was sure they wouldn't stay there and they we would have to boot them back to their beds but they did great and had so much fun.  on the 

 Samuel on the other hand didn't love the fort.

Steven and I also discussed with the kids what they thought of getting a real tree again this year.  We told the kids that we could get a tree or spend that money on gifts and use our artificial tree this year.  Elese's response was "No because I like presents."  I think Steven actually ended up having a shoot about cutting down your own tree and no one else wanted it so we got a real tree and plenty of presents.