We were itching for Christmas before Halloween was over. We can't help it. And by "we" I mean "Amelia and I", Rob has way more self control than we do during the holidays :)
First, some tree prep. She has done this for the past few years now. Every time I get the tree out she has to make her "adjustments" to it. She runs to get her toolbox and starts hammering and sawing. It is an artificial tree ... but I am guessing she remembers us going out and chopping a tree down and making some adjustments ourselves.
Speaking of artificial trees. We had 2 real trees before Amelia was born, but at that time we traveled around Christmas and barely got to enjoy the tree before needles were everywhere. So we bought an artificial one (you can read about that here). We had cut down a tree from the forest surrounding us in addition to our artificial one up until she was 4. We stopped when she turned 5 as she had a Winter Woodlands Birthday Party and I needed another large tree for decoration. I bought one in the after holiday sales and absolutely loved it as I always felt a bit bad at cutting down a tree. We are now a family of 2 artificial trees and probably will replace the original after Christmas this year as it is looking a bit skinny from pieces of plastic branches coming off.
Those teeth!
Dad gave her a boost for our angel. My mom bought it for me and it will always be our star and maybe on Amelia's tree with her family someday too. On to some house decorating...
then play Christmas morning with Barbies, complete with wrapped presents. We decorated their house too.
Why not get out our new sets of Christmas Legos and past years advents.
Took us a few days just to finish the trees and put out most of the decorations.
Let the holidays begin!
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