O Christmas Tree...

Our house has actually been decorated for Christmas for the last two weeks but I thought I should wait until to December to post it. So, here we are two weeks ago decorating the tree. We have a fun tradition in our family that everyone receives a new ornament to put on the tree each year. The kids really get excited to see what ornament they are going to get and they have a great time going through all their old ones and putting them on the tree. It's especially fun when I can find an ornament for them that reflects something about them that year. We all love this tradition, for the memories that it creates and for the opportunity to share it with others. Almost everyone who comes to our house after the tree has been put up asks to see the new ornaments for the year and the kids love to show them off!




Mady decided that we needed some cookies to go with our decorating. She's quite the little baker, I'm gonna gain 10 pounds before Christmas over!



Opening the new ornaments...



Here are the new ones for the year. Kaden's is a little reindeer with up cape on flyng a toy plane. Perfect for him this year since he loves to dress up as superman, batman, any jedi, storm troopers, indiana jones... the list goes on. Breckyn's is the little mouse playing the piano since she is learning to play the piano this year. Ashlyn's is a reindeer on a cell phone... now if only it had been texting instead of talking then it would show what Ash does 80% of her day. Mady's is a snowman baking ... need I say more?


Here is the tree before mom and dad got to it to even it out. The picture is pretty blurry but it's the only one I got of all of them in front of the tree.