{"id":9424,"date":"2012-12-09T20:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2012-12-09T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:50:02","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=9424","title":{"rendered":"It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think this is the title I use for this post every year! :) <\/p>\n

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<\/del> 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. <\/p>\n

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What can’t you fit in the back of a Prius?!?<\/p><\/div>\n

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”<\/em> before finally getting the tree up, the lights on, and letting them decorate. Finally!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Little Lex, eagerly waiting to decorate (and sneaking on a few early ones, you’ll notice)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"decorating\"<\/a>

It’s time for decorating! We skipped the whole “let it relax” part of the process and went right on to “loading it up!”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"done\"<\/a>

Done! That was quick! :)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"dark\"<\/a>

Light’s out! Oooohhh… aaahhh….<\/p><\/div>\n

\"family\"<\/a>

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! :)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"train\"<\/a>

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!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"another<\/a>

Eve and Alan added this one.<\/p><\/div>\n

After dinner we decided to hang up the stockings. But before hangings, there comes the mandatory wearing of the stockings! <\/p>\n

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Lex ran into the living room first and we found him like this! :)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"smiley<\/a>

THERE is the smile I love!! The true “having fun” smile, not the “smiling for the camera” smile. :)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.<\/p><\/div>\n

“Merry 15 days until Christmas,” announced Lex. And to all a good night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-9424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9438,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions\/9438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}