Decorating for christmas

Well this past weekend I finally got to decorate for Christmas. I have been really excited for Christmas this year and was just waiting till after Thanksgiving to decorate. Friday I went shopping all day so We did it Saturday. The boys were able to help this year and it was a lot of fun. After we decorated we had chowder. This is a tradition from my family, Every year we went into the mountains in the freezing cold snow to get our tree and so we always came home to warm clam chowder. Even though I have a fake tree I still love having chowder and toasted cheese sandwiches, it makes me feel like the season is started. Here are some pictures of the day.


These are little cardboard hangings that we got at the dollar store. The boys are always startled by their shadows in the window in the mornings.


The boys helped me put the ornaments on the crystal tree we have

OK so the star was funny cause we knew the boys wouldn't just allow one to put the star on top so we had to do it twice, and really three times if you consider Clint putting it on there straight .


The boys put on all the ornaments by them self. (sometimes a little help from there dad) Of course after they were out of the room we had to take a bunch off the bottom and put them on the tree evenly, the bottom had almost all the ornaments.

The boys loved the humpty dumpty one which is easy to understand since it was my favorite growing up and still is.

This is the boys putting an ornament on you can see how many were on the bottom



I am sorry no pictures of Gav he was sleeping most of the time. We will have to get some of him soon. Well that is it. We are really looking forward to Christmas this year. It is fun having kids that are starting to get it and starting our own traditions with them. if any of you have fun traditions you do for Christmas let me know I am trying to think of fun things to start with my kids. Hope you all have a great Christmas season.