Decorating the tree.

One of the many things I love about Bailey is the fact that she is passionate about holidays. She truly adores everything that goes in to a holiday, especially when there is decorating involved. On the Friday following Thanksgiving she quickly made the comment that she couldn't wait to take down all the fall decor and get out the Christmas boxes (all 47 of them). Haha. That is an exaggeration on the number of boxes, but suffice it to say ... we have alot of Christmas decor. So, since I'd already nixed her idea of going out for Black Friday early morning shopping (Blech! So not going to happen!), I gave her a glimmer of hope with this simple comment: "you know, Bailey, another big tradition on the Friday after Thanksgiving is to put up all the Christmas decorations". I think she almost died on the spot. She was excited!

We spent most of Friday decorating the house, minus the tree. If she'd had her way, the tree would have been done too, but I had a splitting headache for most of the day, so resorted to telling her we'd do the tree either Saturday or Sunday.

Sunday about 6pm she was getting pretty discouraged. Haha. She thought we'd run out of time to do the tree. But a promise is a promise! So she and I put the tree together, the boys did the lights and then the kids all decorated the tree.

Roxy helped supervise. :) She has a real fascination with lights, so once the lights were on, she had something to really entertain her.

These are the kids' annual Hallmark ornaments:

Drums for Austen (of course).

"Where the Wild Things Are" for Kale. Not so obvious. He just really wants to see the movie, and sometimes we're limited on choices. Haha.

A cute little puppy for Bailey (of course). Anything dog, puppy or animal related will work for her.

I sure loved having all the decorations done before December 1st! Now, if I could just convince Shawn and the boys to work on the outside.