The day after Thanksgiving we decided to decorate for Christmas. The girlies were BEYOND excited :)
For the past two years some sweet, sweet friends of ours have bought us a Christmas tree....just because. They just want to "bless us". And it is definitely a blessing to have such a huge, beautiful tree to decorate!
Getting it lined up and stable....the girls definitely assisted in this ;)
All the ornaments laid out and ready to be placed....
The girls had to find the "perfect spot" for each and every ornament....so cute!
Our New Zealand Ornament....
Our "in memory of"ornament for our sweet baby we will meet one day.....
Nativity from Kazakhstan.....
I LOVE our Willow Tree Nativity.....
The daddy (aka Clark Griswold) has loooooonged to put up outside Christmas lights every year. Well, he finally got his dream. The girls really wanted outside Christmas lights as well, so that was all the extra motivation he needed :)
SO, he and the girls went to the store to get some "hangy" lights. They got back and he took them out of the box and started STAPLE-GUNNING them to the porch (I'm tellin' ya....he IS Clark Griswold!). I asked him if he plugged them in first to make sure they worked. Of course he had not and said that he didn't need to b/c they were brand new. I told him I still thought he should check them. After "discussing" this for several minutes and after he had already staple-gunned alot of them up on the porch, he got fed up with our "discussion" and decided to SHOW me I was wrong.....he climbed down from the ladder, got an extension cord, and wha-lah! They DIDN'T work. Needless to say, the daddy was a TAD bid frustrated ;) SO, he had to take them all down, pack them back up, and go exchange them at the store.
SUPER. HAPPY.DADDY.
When they got back from their 2nd store trip, they CHECKED the lights first and then started stapling them up again.....
Clark worked into the night.....
And after several hours and two store trips.....Drumroll, please.....I said, DRUMROLL......
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