Decorating for Christmas

 *Bear with me as I continue to play catch up on the blog :)

Every year, since I can remember, we have gotten our Christmas tree the day after or the day of Thanksgiving. As a child, this was driving into the mountains to cut one down, then it was going to pick one out and now it is putting up a fake one. (But only until we are done with Residency, THEN I get a real tree again.) This year, since we went on a little vacation after Thanksgiving, we put the tree up the Sunday following Thanksgiving. As always, the kids were so excited they could barely contain themselves! (We had to wait until Evie was in bed so as to make it a little easier on us all.) This year was Gabby's year to put the star on.

 Dad helped by digging through all the bags, boxes, etc. to find all our favorite ornaments. (We have a few too many for this tiny fake tree, but we did the best we could :)!)

 

The kids were really happy with the way it turned out. Once we are done here and get settled, this tree will be the "kids tree". I am very much looking forward to being able to have my tree, with matching ornaments and all the things I think should be on the tree. (But that is still years away... )

 Another one of our favorite Christmas activities is making treats! We did a lot of holiday baking, but the kids and Nate LOVE the white chocolate dipped pretzels. Maybe it is because they eat as they go, or that they get all messy while they do it, but whatever the reason they really do love it!

 We even let Evie join in the fun!

 Can you tell which ones Lily sprinkled?!