We’ve developed a family tradition. Every year we take our Christmas walk in the same park, and take a picture of the boys on the same tree trunk. The parks and recreation staff have been busy cutting down trees, adding erosion control, fences, and just cleaning up the woods. We’re not sure if our same tree trunk will be here next year or not, but we will be sad to see it go.

Until then, these are pictures of the boys in 2009, 2011, and 2012.

They were such troopers. It had been raining all day and was still sprinkling when we took these photos.