The decorating began the day after Thanksgiving. We dug out our old tree of yester-year (yes, we are fake tree people) and found our old box of ornaments that we hadn't seen in four years. Not only are we fake tree people, turns out we are lazy fake tree people -- our fake tree is pre-lit. Just put the three pieces of the tree together, plug it in, and whalah! Instant tree! We had forgotten all about the pre-lit feature and were happy to save the extra hour of Matt stringing lights, Kim taking them off and re-stringing them, and then finally letting the ornaments join the party.
This was the first year that Jack actually participated in the tree decorating. Jack has hit a warp-speed growth spurt over the past month and this was a fun moment for us to watch since it is big deal for him to participate in this kind of group activity. The funny part was he thought all of the ornaments should be in one cluster...
It was a lot of fun to see all of our old ornaments. Such good memories!
The finished product (complete with our homemade tree skirt, which is a very long family story):
Matt played Christmas songs on the piano as princess Kara danced around the tree:
Matt has a true love for large Christmas yard art. I fought this love of his for seven years, and this year he finally won. Giant inflatable Santa (complete with lights) now lives in our front yard and greets us (and our non-Christmas-celebrating neighbors) every day.
Ho, ho, ho...
Next up was tree trimming along 360 with our besties, the Lowman's. We picked a large tree along 360 near Spicewood and let the kids go crazy with decorations. Below is Jordan and Ainsley hard at work:
Kara in action:
Our stockings are now hung by the chimney with care...
Lastly, our Elf on a Shelf (huge thank you to Marie for introducing us!) is here. Our elf is named Milky Chippy. He perches himself in a new place each morning and the kids look for him in earnest as soon as they wake up.
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