The tree took 2 days to complete this year – one day to pick it out and put it in the house with lights and one day to decorate it. I guess we were being a bit lazy the Saturday we went to get it (around 3pm) and then it had to sit outside and “open” per daddy. By the the time it was ready for ornaments, the boys were ready for bed :) And as always, these pictures are like 15 days old! We bought the tree on the 8th and finished decorating on the 9th. I think one of my New Year’s resolutions is going to be to get these posts done in a more timely manner ;)

Of course Kona had to come Christmas tree shopping with us. Thankfully, the owners of the garden store where we purchased our tree were super pet-friendly. Our downtown area was having a cookie walk so we hit a few more places after we got the tree.

Logan being goofy 

That’s the one!

The boys were doing some crazy dancing as Daddy pulled the tree into the house.

Hot cocoa – obviously.

This is reindeer Kona…never to be seen again as she would only let me keep these on her head for like 2 seconds.

Messy-hair me, Logan and Kona

Brady really really wanted to put the star on top this year, but he sort of chickened out once Brian climbed the ladder.

Aiden ended up putting it on instead

The boys have been playing ridiculous amounts of Minecraft, a very pixilated-looking game.  They called this ornament “the minecraft angel”

The finished tree! We ended up replacing the star on top (which we always use and always leans to one side) with this paper one I was goofy around with one day. It’s made of 6 sheets of computer paper :)

 

Aiden put himself in charge of upper-tree / ladder-hogging duty. :)

As I was writing this post, I took a break to clean the kitchen and do some other things around the house. It occurred to me that the tree could probably use some water. At this point, the bottom of the tree is surrounded by all the gifts (thank you…I wrapped them BEFORE Christmas eve this year). I moved a branch in the back of the tree to get at the stand and the ENTIRE THING TOPPLED FORWARD! I screamed, Brian ran, some presents in the front got soaked (salvageable …no re-wrapping required thank goodness) and we managed to get the whole thing back up with minimal damage. Granted, it’s now MUCH closer to the side table and sort of facing in a new direction, but I guess it’s pretty funny in hindsight. Brian was dying laughing at the whole thing!