Decorating the Xmas tree

Audrey woke up so excited to decorate for Christmas. I have been telling her since Halloween that we can't decorate for Christmas (like the stores do) until the day after Thanksgiving.

This morning we put away what was left of our fall decorations, and started to pull out our Christmas decorations only to discover that we no longer have a tree. I forgot that the base of our broke last year when we were dismantling it.

I had big plans to avoid black Friday shopping by decorating my house and instead, realized that I would be thrown right into the thick of it. I looked online to find out where the Christmas tree door busters were, dressed Audrey in record time and took off to fight the crowds at Walmart. I love Walmart because of the cacophony of humanity that assembles there regularly. Today that cacophony wasn't as bad as black fridays of past years, and I was able to score the $25 6.5 foot tree of my dreams. :)

We decided earlier this year that we were going to do a "fun" tree instead of our usual matchy-matchy fancy tree. With that in mind, I bought the multi colored lights (to Ryan's horror) and we were off. Neither Audrey nor Ryan were very cooperative with getting their pics taken mid-decorating, so the only picture worth posting is Audrey smiling proudly in front of the tree at the very end (holding her curios George snow globe).As for the actual decorating, Audrey got very excited about it. We put on the Nat King Cole Christmas album - a classic if ever there was. Ryan held Audrey up for the high parts and she had a great time doing all the ornaments. She wasn't thrilled about doing the ball ornaments until she got to put the hooks in them and then it was very exciting too.