Deck the halls

I love decorating for Christmas! Taking each decoration out brings back all kinds of good memories. Now that the kids are getting a little older they love finding their own special ornaments from years past. One of our traditions is for the kids to get a new ornament every year. Scott's family did it when he was growing up and I love it! We also get new ornaments when we travel...a great way to remember places we've been. All of that makes it so fun to decorate our tree every year.

Keep in mind this is a mountain tree, and a very good one at that. I've decided that ribbon may not look the greatest on a sparse mountain tree, but it works. We also have our traditional dried fruit ornaments from my college days. I used to make these new every year until I recently discovered that these ornaments keep from year to year. That made it a lot easier for me this time around.

Gage is our tree attacker this year, although it's died down a little as the days go on. Now we have presents under our tree and he loves to rip and carry those around. Nice. Thank goodness the ones he ripped are undetectable in a big brown box.

I love these three pictures of the kids taken right after we finished decorating the tree. Silly kids.

p.s. Gage tipped over a dining room chair with him on it this morning. I'm thinking Jace had something to do with it, but I can't prove it. Gage came away with a cut, fat lip and a bloody nose....but thankfully not stitches. Poor little guy.