Sunday, November 29, 2009

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Yesterday we spent the day putting up the Christmas tree and deocrating the inside of the house for Christmas. It is one of our favorite seasonal activities. From the moment the tree box hits the living room floor, the excitement is overwhelming. Julee and Alexis have tree decorating down to a science. We love to sit and listen to them engineer the whole process - "Wait, there are too many in one spot here" or "You better put one back there; it's looking pretty bare" or "You can't put that blue ornament there-it's too close to that other blue one". For the first few days after it's finished, one of us is always commenting about how pretty the tree is. After the tree, come the other house decorations. Our favorites are the Nativities and the Nutcrackers. By the end of the evening, we were all set. Now we just enjoy the decorations and wait for Santa....
The tree

The Nativities

The Nutcrackers

2 comments:

Sharron said...

very pretty and festive . . . some of us definitely need to get a fire built under our buns!!

Mary Jane said...

Awesome! We will finish ours up today too! Our favorite time of the year - but poor Cosmo was terrified of it all.