Saturday, January 15, 2011

Decorating the Christmas Tree

We finally got our tree home and now its time to decorate.





Someone suggested we put a star on top of the tree and leave it just like it is... Funny!



Seth got to be the first to cut the twine and start untying the tree.



While Joshua snipped off the top.





Almost there.



Yea! The last bit of twine coming off.



The next day we pulled out all the decorations. Seth and Noah opening the box of decorations. They were so excited.



As the decorations were going up, I was in the kitchen preparing hot chocolate for everyone.



With lots of marshmallows! YUM!!!



The boys and Mike were busy getting the lights on the tree.



I was busy setting the table and putting other decorations around the house.



It was now time to put on the ornaments. One of our favorite ornaments are the "J" candy-cane ornaments we made a few years ago. All we did is attach (hot glue) ribbon to the bottom of candy-canes and then hang them upside down on the tree. We hang them in a "J" shape to remind us of Jesus, which is really what this season is all about.



I wanted to get a picture of everyone holding their favorite ornament. Here is mine... a Starbucks coffee cup of course!



Noah's would most definitely be the Noah's Ark ornament.



And we couldn't leave Mordecai out of the fun. Last year he got this ornament in his stocking. I don't know what happened to daddy's, Seth's and Joshua's picture... I guess I will have to work on that next year.



Every year we put a nativity set under the tree. It was Noah's turn to get to set it out.



There it is all decorated and just waiting for presents. The best part of decorating the tree is while pulling out the ornaments, which most are homemade, we reminisce about where and how the ornament was made. It's fun to look at an ornament that one of the boys made in preschool. With their name on the back its hard for them to deny that they were the creator... as much as would like to!

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