Christmas Tree Decorating

So today, as planned, we got to work on decorating this years Christmas tree. I purged all my old ornaments this year (we donated them to Goodwill) and bought all new ones. We also bought new tree lights that are LED and they are in the shape of snowflakes! They went along perfect with our new star/snowflake tree topper! Anyways, check out what we did!

While decorating the Christmas tree, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus....... ahem. I mean Daddy.

Madeline is proud of her work and our beautiful tree!

Kassie, joyous as always, loves to decorate.

Oh yeah. Sydney is having a ball trimming the tree!

Our finished tree! Isn't it beautiful!

I'm so excited for Christmas!

Adventures in Christmas Tree Hunting

And so it was. Today we trekked out to our favorite local tree farm and got this years Christmas tree. It was a tough decision on which tree we would take home, but in the end I do believe we made the correct choice. Here are a few pictures we took on our journey.

All the girls are ready to cut down a tree!

Sydney is always the little goofster trying to hide the saw....

Madeline hugging a tree, Kassie petting one, and Sydney staring at them. I don't know which child is crazier! :o)

We found the tree! Now for the fun part... choppy choppy!

The owner of the tree farm was so impressed with us finding such an awesome tree. He was amazed with how good it looked! (They normally pick the best ones and cut them down first to sell at the stands.) He said we got the nicest tree there. (We knew that already, lol.) The last picture is of Andy and the owner checking the rings on the tree to see how old it was. They counted 13, which means our tree is a teenager! :o)

I love how our family always makes something so simple into an awesome adventure.

So that's it! Now, Andy and I both work this whole weekend, so we won't even get the tree decorated until Monday. When we do though, I will surely post the pictures!

Oh Christmas Tree

Well we did it. We successfully got our Christmas tree up, and it is a stunner. We all helped in decorating the tree, while drinking hot cocoa and enjoying some wonderful almond cookies. Below I have posted some pics of us while we were busy fixing it up.

Here, I think Madeline is daydreaming of a White Christmas.

Daddy helping his baby girl gently put the ornaments on the tree.

Kassie really enjoyed helping!

Sydney and the santa hat. Gotta love it!

They even captured a pic with me decorating, too.

And here is our beautiful tree in all her glory.

I leave you with the annual family picture in front of the Christmas tree.

Merry Christmas!

The Adventures in Christmas Tree Hunting

Today, as in years past, we went to our favorite Christmas tree farm to pick out our Christmas tree.

When we got there we walked around for a while, taking in all the beautiful trees.

Kassie and Parker were checking out the scenery.

Not long after, we found our tree.

Sydney wanted to have the honor of cutting it down this year, so Andy got her started. Then she went to town on it, sawing it the rest of the way down.

Go Sydney, go! It really is a beautiful tree.

We then brought it back to our car, and we loaded it up for our journey home. I love this tradition we have, and I'm sure when the girls get older, they will remember these days and cherish the memories, as I do so very much. I'll post the pics when we get it up with all the lights on it, which is what we are about to do now.

Christmas Decorating

Last night we had fun going to the tree farm to pick out our Christmas tree. I really like Spruce trees but this year I gave in and we got a big plump "regular" tree, as Sydney put it. Since we own our own house now, and have lots of room, I figured it would fit in perfectly. (The house we lived in before only allowed fake trees, but I always broke the rules and got a small real tree. The landlord never found out!) But even after we picked it out, cut it down, tied it to the car, and got it home, I was actually a little skeptical that it wasn't big enough. Below is the picture of the tree.

Without decorations.

So we all took turns picking out which decorations we ourselves would get to put on the tree. Sydney kept getting frustrated because Madeline was taking all of the ones she chose, and putting them up herself. Madeline has a bad habit of wanting to do everything. I don't know where she gets it from. :) But Kassie was the smart one. She hid her ornaments so Madeline couldn't steal them. Sneaky and smart thinking, I wonder where she gets that from. :)

The tree fully decorated!

When we went to the store to get more lights for the outside, Andy really wanted this penguin he saw. Of course Madeline's favorite animal is the penguin, so he used her to get me to cave in so we could get it. I am not really a fan of big decorative things in the front yard, but alas, I thought it was cute too, so we got it.

Isn't he cute!

Anyway, you can't really see well in this next pic, but tonight we put lights up on our stair railings, and along our roof. The roof lights are blue icicle lights. If you click on the pic, you can see it better. And you can see the penguin by the downstairs window. That is the extent of our decorating this year, so far. I have a feeling we might be adding more, that is if Andy has any say in it...... :) I am just truly excited because this is our first Christmas in our new home!

Click to see the icicle lights.

And last but not least, this is the pic we took right after we finished the tree, and right before the girls crashed because it was 2 hours past their bed time! Merry Christmas!