It's our tradition to go to a tree farm and cut down our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving weekend. This year we decided to wait until a week later so the tree would be fresh longer.
And the tree has been chosen!
Love it, but will probably go back to a fir next year.
Sean giving Noah a lesson on how to cut down the tree :)
And now it's Madison's turn.
Oops! We had bigger eyes than our ceiling is. Time for Sean to go out and cut a little more stem off the tree and we'll try again.
It wouldn't be Christmas without the kids decorating gingerbread houses.
Summer & Mason w/theirs.
Time to make some yummy Christmas cookies!
All decorated and ready to eat. It's fun to see the different ability levels of applying frosting :)
Since we weren't driving all night on Christmas Eve, Sean was able to read "The Night Before Christmas" to the kids.
Love this one of Summer cuddling up to him as he reads!
Our tree! This is the first year we used ribbon instead of tinsel roping. I had a star topper w/white lights, but it only worked one night so I had to return it. This caused me to actually attempt making the bow for the top of the tree, but I should've made it a bit bigger. Wasn't bad for my first try and next year I will make sure it's more proportionate to the size of the tree.
The stockings along the fireplace. Buddy, the Elf, is keeping an eye on Mason's stocking :)
And you can't forget the cookies and milk for Santa!
Last, but not least, is all my kiddos in their Christmas attire. I forgot the camera on Christmas day to take one of the crew in the church, so about a week later, I made them dress up at home just for this picture. They weren't too happy with me, but I got the photos I wanted.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a wonderful time with family and friends over the holiday season. As usual, it went way too fast. We wished we could've had a little snow, but it was still great for us all to be together. We had a great time!
Great Job on the Christmas Cookies! Looked like a wonderful Christmas!
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