Oh Christmas Tree

 Syd playing with her nativities...

 Saturday we picked out our tree and put up lights. The weather was so perfect. Little did we know just two weeks later it would be -15 degrees out!

 Every year it's a big deal whose turn it is to put the star on and I think every year Jeff bellows "Get the blog book!" and I always crack up... but then we really do bust out the blog book to see who did it last year, which will tell us whose turn it is this year.

 I so love this time of year!!

Mom's tree.

xoxo

Candy trees with the Shulers

We had our annual candy trees fun with the Shulers last week. We totally benefit from preschool leftovers.

Seth wasted no time. chomping right into his candy tree.

Tree time!

After we got home from Thanksgiving we got our house all decorated. The kids love to help me and Sydney has very specific places she likes things!

Our new village piece from Grandpa Bell is the light house. Tim picked it out. :)

Getting the tree!

How sad, no decorating pics of Tim. I really wasn't on my picture game. Getting a family picture around the tree proved pretty difficult too! Some of us were a little too excited.
For every picture here, there are 10 more in my phone...

I love my family!

Tree Time

We bought our tree from Home Depot. We got it on Monday for FHE, but Seth had a basketball game and so we didn't get it decorated until Wednesday. We started with Tim reading us the legend of the 3 trees. Tim and I strung the lights and then  the kids decorated. --we have way too many decorations. They didn't use 1/4 of them and it's still a very full tree!!

 Tim helped Seth place the star on top.

I love these silly kids! 

I love how sweet and nostalgic they get when they find and put up their old ornaments.