It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Christmas

We put our tree up Friday afternoon.  Since we will be traveling some over the holidays, we decided to get a pre-lit fake tree.  I found a good deal online during the Cyber Monday sale.  It's a 7.5 foot tall Blue Spruce with 1000 lights.  It fits in the corner (well, not really the corner) of our family room quite well.  It took us awhile to shape all the branches, but I think it will work out great for us.  Since we live near lots and lots of tree farms, we should let our kids experience the joy of going to the farm, cutting down the tree, strapping it on top of the car, etc.  But not this year. 

Fletcher has always enjoyed putting ornaments on the tree.  This year Luke really got into it too. 

Luke thought the ornaments looked best if they were "weally, weally cwose to each udder."  I tried to move them, but he would move them back so I'll just let them stay that way.  Our tree has no theme.  We've just collected ornaments through the years.  Some are even ones Kevin made when he was a kid. 

The boys and I made these this year with some friends. I painted their 4 fingers and the top part of their palm with white paint.  Then they grabbed the ornament and their fingerprints made four snowmen.  We added hats, scarves, eyes, noses, etc.  They turned out so cute.  We found the instructions here.  However, we couldn't find shatterproof ornaments so these are glass.  They are waaaaay up at the top of the tree.  I am so afraid they are going to break. 

Luke's

Fletcher's

I did manage to get one small video during the decorating process and almost caught Luke on tape singing "Jingle Bells" but then he quit.