O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
On Monday night on our way home from the gym, in the rain we got our Christmas tree. I was giving Wes a hard time about getting a tree, because we have missed so many Christmases over the past few years. We didn’t have tree last year since we moved on Dec. 15th. It just wasn’t possible. The year before we decorated, but Ashleigh was 9 months old and just starting to walk, so I decorated while Wes contained Ashleigh. The year before we moved the day after Christmas, so there was no decorating….The year before we got married 2 weeks before Christmas and I was moving into Wes’s apartment…So, I get excited when we actually are able to HAVE a tree. I have such fond memories of getting and decorating our Christmas tree as a child, I want Ashleigh to have the same.
We took the evening to get our tree decorated. So, I lit some candles, straightend up a bit (read: put Ashleigh’s toys away and washed the playdough off the table, took the Christmas presents we just bought out of the living room, and moved the boxes left from the decorations out of the living room), turned on the lamp and got ready! We ordered a pizza, put on some Christmas music, took some photos and had a blast!! Ashleigh got to help decorate Nana’s tree last weekend, so she was a pro at putting the ornaments on. It was so great to see her so excited and have some special time.
We put the lights outside yesterday, I just added some candles to the windows, we have some garland to get up around the house, but it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! Enjoy the photos!
