O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

The Saturday after Thanksgiving Joe and I had the day off from work. So we decided to put up our Christmas tree and decorations. We put some wassail on the stove, put in some Christmas music and got to work. With the help of Madi and Gavin it pretty much is a whole day activity. We realized that it may be easier to put the lights on as we put the tree together. In theory, this is a good idea until you realize you only have one string of lights. So Joe went to the store and bought 2 boxes of 100 lights. We barely got up to the second set of branches. Hmm, another store trip later and the 4th or 5th time of putting up the lights we finally were satisfied. There are more lights on the bottom but I couldn't get myself to take them all off again to make it even. After that it was dinner time and Joe and I were both tired enough to let Madi put all the ornaments on the tree. So all of our ornaments are her height level and down. It looks so good!!!! But the holidays are about the children anyway. So I will leave it that way for a while. She was so proud.

Ta Da! Our finished product.