Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Decorating for Christmas

We decorated for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. Although we don't cut it down ourselves, we always get a live tree. We try to get a 12 foot tree, but we had trouble finding one this year. We finally found one at the third place we went. Phew. Another tradition we have is giving each of the kids an ornament. The goal is that they will each have a nice collection of ornaments they can take with them when they are grown that adequately represent their childhood. Here they are with their ornaments:

Micah with his X-Wing Fighter from Star Wars


Samuel with Luke Skywalker


The boys together


Mary Kate with Cinderella


Hope with an ornament we bought in China


And here is a picture of our finished product:


Not bad, huh? We love it!

1 comment:

  1. So cute!! We're going to do the same thing with Joshua and the ornament every year. I think he'll appreciate it more this year than he did last year.

    Micah and Samuel's smiles with their Star Wars ornaments are precious! So cool of you to think of getting Hope an ornament while you were in China.

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