Getting & Dressing Our Tree

We did a quick trip to Home Depot this year for our Christmas tree. Our weekends have been a hap-hazard recently. And although we were invited by W's brother, Frank, to join them in cutting down a tree with his National Forest permit, we're going to wait until next year to make the big drive up to Marysville. 

We got home, took some much needed naps {did I mention everyone was pretty cranky this day?}, and waited until the evening to start dressing our little Noble Fir. Ezra was all about it. He went over to his kitchen set and grabbed his felt knife to help Papa cut the cords that held the tree together. Most creative and adorable solution he's thought up to date. We got a hardy laugh out of that one. 

He loved putting on the little 'balls'. He kept saying "hang up" as he put another one on. All the while, we explained how once they were on, they stayed on. Hoping to discourage any 'ornament mis-handling'. ;) So far so good.

So far Theo has ZERO ornaments. I keep hoping I'll make time to creat 2011 ones; similar to my 2010 ones {like the 'S' pictured above}. BUT all I have left to do with his stocking is embroidering his name on it. That's got to count for something. 

Christmas is so much fun this year with a toddler who's starting to 'get it' and able to participate and a sweet little new baby. It's going to be hard to top that in future years!

Our final product: