We went out on Sunday & got our Christmas tree. It's our tradition to get it on the 15th or close to it but had some issues because of our stupid car! Can't wait to get a new one! We went down to this tree lot & found a nice 6' tree for a great price. The tree is even from Oregon! As if we didn't miss home enough, now we have a tree from the PNW sitting in our family room.
We had to run to Target & get lights & ornaments. We have all we need to decorate a tree but it's all in storage in WA. We got the tree home & in the stand. I started putting lights on & realized I didn't have enough! I really didn't feel like going back to Target again. Thankfully, our neighbor buys lights the day after Christmas so he had ALOT & just gave me some extra. We always make decorating the tree a family event. Hayden was watching in his swing, Rya was just underfoot & laughing but we were able to get most of it done that night.
We change the color scheme of the ornaments every year. It was something my Mom started doing & we prefer it over a bunch of ornaments that don't match. This year, we chose silver, gold & blue. The blue is in honor of Hayden's 1st Christmas. (Christmas of 2008, we did silver & purple. The purple was in honor of Rya's 1st Christmas). I can never have just ornaments on the tree so I bought some silver tinsel too. I love the extra glitter that it adds. It actually took 2 days to complete the entire tree because Rya was so curious.
I love the tree topper! I have a gorgeous angel tree topper that my grandmother gave me years ago. The angel has been the top since our 1st Christmas in 2007, but she is in storage. We found this star topper at Big Lots for $5! The center blinks & it's so pretty!
I'm so excited for Christmas this year! We've had such a tough year & I'm so happy the kids are going to have an amazing Christmas! I love this entire month! The Christmas music, decorations, baking & so many more things. My favorite thing is all our family traditions. Almost all of them I got from my Mom & carried on into my family. We've also added some new ones of our own over the 3 1/2 years we've been married. We have cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning & bowling on Christmas night. I'm excited for Christmas Eve so we can do my favorite tradition - watch White Christmas with a tin of 3 way popcorn. I'm also excited because we started something new & it's really starting this year. Ever since Rya was born, we've bought her a new ornament each Christmas, now her new ornament will be in her stocking. I love this & hope Rya will cherish all these ornaments. We'll do the same thing for Hayden starting next year. This year we buy him a Baby's 1st Christmas ornament. I'm really upset because I can't really find any. We've got more Christmas shopping to do so hopefully I'll find his ornament then!
4 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!!
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