Trimming the tree

We braved the first minor snow and got our Christmas tree. It was our first time getting a "cut it yourself tree," though they actually cut it down for us. It was great browsing trees with a light dusting of snow on them.

Christmas tree

Clark's Farm even had Santa on duty. Leah was scared of him, but Molly hopped in his sleigh to say hi.

Hi Santa

That evening we decorated our Christmas tree. Since the tree hadn't been manicured, Chad had to invoke the "tree diet" and trim the tree to make it fit! Molly was an ornament hanging machine. She was especially excited to find our Disney-themed ornaments.

More ornaments

Leah wasn't into putting ornaments on the tree in the beginning. She hung onto this Minney Mouse ornament for a long time and had lots of fun decorating and dancing to Christmas music.

Happy little girl

She did eventually catch the Christmas spirit after watching her sister adorn the tree.

Try again

To begin with, almost all the ornaments were hung 3 feet from the ground. Chad encouraged Molly to hang them higher, and then she decided she wanted to hang them all "really really high." So, Chad became the Daddy ladder.

Ornaments up high

Molly is quite proud of our tree.

Proud girl

One Comment

  1. Melanie says:

    Awesome – looks like a great tree! I had to let go of my picky-ness this year with the tree decorating since I let Jillian do most of it…there are TONS of ornaments all unevenly spaced on the bottom of the tree. Some branches even have *gasp* multiple ornaments on them!

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