Fall leaves and Christmas tree

While the weather was good we were out raking leaves, we've been pretty neglectful with our leaves. They were all over the place...to make things worst our neighbor (who is a meanie) get professionals to blow them off their yard every year and those guys always blow some our way. So we get a lot of extra leaves from our neighbor. Lien has talked to the guys, worked for a bit and now it's back to the same thing.
So anyways the kids and I decided to go out and rake them before the snow and cold weather hits us. The kids wanted to play too. I have to say though, although it was fun raking leaves and messing with the kids, it was total hard sweating work. WOW! But we had fun.

After Lien got home we brought out the Christmas tree. Every year we wait till the last minute like literally a week or two before Christmas so this year we wanted to do it sooner. So it's up and running...now all it needs are presents! Anyone wanna help with that? : )

Do you have a Christmas tradition?
When we were kids back in Idaho. Dad use to take us girls out to the tree farm or the store where they have all the real trees for sale. We'd get to pick a tree. We'd take it home and dad would make a stand for it (every year he makes one out of wood for the tree) and we'd decorate it. We did that for a few years until we got a little older and dad didn't do it anymore. But i still remember those days! How time flies by. So no matter what, always stick with tradition, if you should change it please make sure it's a better tradition. Whatever you do, don't stop the tradition.