I wanted to post this earlier, but we finally got our Christmas tree up the first weekend of December. We had a whirlwind of a weekend...well week actually, but it was so much fun! We went over to our friend's house for her daughter's birthday dinner & dessert and the kids got to play together, which is always great. On Friday, my friends and I had our annual "Gingerbread House Party".
This was the third year that we've done this and every year it gets bigger and bigger, with about 26 people at my friend's house! Last year it was at my house...and for all you who have been in my house...there is NO way that I could have fit 26 people!!! So it worked out great, everyone had a great time, the kids made a disaster of everything, and that royal icing was everywhere!!!! I wish I had taken some more pics of our holiday party, but some friends (ahem) didn't want me to publish them on my blog...but I'll get one up of Brady's Gingerbread House soon!
Then on Saturday, I cleaned the house like a mad woman in the morning just so we would be prepared for the tree. And boy did we get a great tree!!! I wanted us to make a day of getting the tree...to enjoy the whole experience....get hot chocolate...ride on a wagon...cut our own tree down...the works. However, things changed once we realized how COLD it was outside, and I do have to admit that I am a big baby when it comes to the cold. Give me 95 degree weather and I'll soak it up and enjoy every minute of it, but when it 55 degrees and I feel like my fingers are falling off, that when the enjoyment ends. So we went to Yeager's Farm and within 5 min. we had our tree picked out, predrilled and tied up...allowing us to go inside and warm up after spending that looong amount of time outside:-) And my poor son is starting to act just like me...who would have thought!
So after we got our FABULOUS tree it was time to stop off at Produce Junction. We got a great wreath for $5, 300 icicle lights for $8, and Brady got a light-up reindeer for $5. What a great deal!!! I really recommend going there to get fresh garland, wreaths, etc. Their prices are the best and the quality is very good. Oh and their trees are only $27...something I found out after I paid a nice little penny for mine...but that's alright because ours is perfect!
I got the tree up all by myself...it's only 6'7" and I was going great until Brady did a flip off the couch and almost landed on top of it. So if you can imagine...here am I, on the floor, trying to hold up this nicely large-sized tree with one hand and with the other "free" hand I'm hanging onto the kid praying that I'm strong enough to hold both at the same time! So much excitement! So from then on, Brady had to stay at a distance and tell me if the tree was straight or crooked. Needless to say, we got it done! I let Mr. Tree sit for a while while we went outside and finished setting up the lights on the carport roof. And then it magically started to snow!
Later on that evening we decorated the tree and had a great time listening to Christmas music...Brady's favorite is the Chipmunks Christmas album...which we listened to about 4 times straight that night. I've heard the album SO many times that their voices don't bother me anymore and I've accepted it, especially when he insisted listening to it in June:-)
More pics to come of our tree to come...
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