It's the most wonderful time of the year

Ah!  Back to blogging regularly.  Finals week was crazy and I didn't have a lot of extra time to blog, but thankfully it paid off!  My GPA turned out to be a 3.71! 

Now that I'm home, it's an interesting transition from my school life to my home life.  At school, I kind of set my own schedule whereas here I have to do what my family is doing.  Nevertheless, there's no place like home for the holidays, so I thought I'd share one of my favorite family traditions with you all: Christmas tree shopping!

I feel like an authentic Christmas tree is the main ingredient for the holidays.  Every year we go to a local tree farm and search for the perfect tree.  We don't have the highest ceilings in the world, so we can't get one that's too tall, but I love this year's tree. 

I put up two pictures-one from 2007 followed by one from this year.  The man in the first photo is my extremely goofy dad.  What's funny, though, is that my sisters and I are standing in the exact same spots both years.  My youngest sister has grown about a million feet, and Kaci (the consistent blond) looks so much less awkward.  My hair is a totally different color!  Toby, our golden, looks exactly the same though.  He still never looks at the camera. My how things have changed, yet stayed exactly the same.

What about you?  What are your favorite traditions?