Well... it is finally Christmas time Advent, and Christmas is right around the corner. This may be my favorite time of year... I just love all of the traditions that go with Christmas. There are so many traditions that are wonderful to share with your family. One of my FAVORITE traditions is getting and decorating the Christmas tree.
I am a little obnoxious about making sure we get the right tree. My sister and brother may say I get it from my dad... He is an EXPERT tree picker-out-er and tree decorator. He taught me it has to be full and have thick branches and bristles. Then when we get it all set up in our house he taught me to trim the tree so there there are nice holes to fill with heavy beautiful ornaments. I would always help my dad hang the lights so I am now an expert :) In our family we start with the large colored lights. They go around the center of the tree. Then white lights go around the outer branches. And finally its time to hang the ornaments!!
One thing I love about Christmas trees is that EVERYONE has a different way to decorate their Christmas tree. Some people do as we do with large colored and white lights. Some only put white while others only put colored. Then you have the large colored or the small colored... there are just so so so many ways to decorate a Christmas tree :) I love seeing Christmas trees in the windows and noticing how each family chooses to decorate their own tree. I am sure everyone knows that their tree is decorated the right way ;)
Anyway... I guess thats enough ranting about Christmas trees... Here is our tree this year... JUST PERFECT!!
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(We couldn't put any lights or ornaments at the bottom of the tree because Joe would love to eat them :) And... those are not all real presents. All of the big boxes are empty but are just there to keep Joseph from crawling under the tree :) )
I love that last picture of him reaching up at the tree. What a sweet little man.
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