I think this is the title I use for this post every year! :)
We got our Christmas tree today. It was a beautiful day and I was hoping for a lovely family outing to the Christmas tree farm. Romping through snow mud to find that perfect tree. Sadly things came to a head with Eve and her lying, so she and I ended up staying home while the boys got the tree. I sent the camera with Lex, but they forgot to take pictures until the very end so they came home with a few pics of the tree stuffed in the car but nothing quite like I was hoping for. Oh well. You’ll have to imagine a gently falling snow, happy children running from tree to tree looking for “the one” and loving parents following behind, bathed in the glory that is Christmas. A lovely thing to imagine.
What can’t you fit in the back of a Prius?!?
So they came home and we all had lunch. In the past Alan and I have used quiet time to get the living room ready and the tree set up, but today he took a nap and I read Harry Potter with Lex, so when the kids came down from quiet time we made them wait “FOREVER” before finally getting the tree up, the lights on, and letting them decorate. Finally!
Little Lex, eagerly waiting to decorate (and sneaking on a few early ones, you’ll notice)
It’s time for decorating! We skipped the whole “let it relax” part of the process and went right on to “loading it up!”
Done! That was quick! :)
Light’s out! Oooohhh… aaahhh….
Merry Christmas! The family picture came out a little weird due to a brightness in the corner (flash reflecting off the table the camera was on, perhaps) and Eve’s normal camera face these days. Oh well. That’s our family! :)
Lex decided to add tunnels to the train tracks so it looks like the train goes into a tunnel on one side of the tree and comes out on the other. It kind of looks like that anyway, if you use your imagination!
Eve and Alan added this one.
After dinner we decided to hang up the stockings. But before hangings, there comes the mandatory wearing of the stockings!
Lex ran into the living room first and we found him like this! :)
THERE is the smile I love!! The true “having fun” smile, not the “smiling for the camera” smile. :)
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.
“Merry 15 days until Christmas,” announced Lex. And to all a good night!