Deck the Halls

The past few years we've gone to a local Christmas tree farm and cut down our own Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. We both like that tradition of having a live tree and of going at the end of November. By the time Christmas if over, I'm typically ready to take down our tree, so I'd rather have it up at least a month to get some use out of it. Plus it really gets us in the Christmas spirit!

The kid's holding hands on our way to the Christmas tree farm

Jenna actually found our tree right away. We weren't there more than 3 minutes after she pointed it out. Of course she also pointed out the Charlie Brown trees, so I think this one was just luck.

Drew remembers from his childhood going Christmas tree hunting and then having hot chocolate and a snack. So we brought along the hot chocolate and some brownies. The kids definitely enjoyed that part of our trip!

This was the first year Jenna really enjoyed helping decorate the tree. She liked putting the star on the top...

...and putting ornaments on the tree. I though she'd put a few on and then get bored with it and move on to something else, but she actually stayed almost the entire time. She did a good job - we just had to do a little moving around once we were finished, otherwise one section of our tree would have been overloaded with ornaments while the rest sat empty. :)

At the end of November we had our first snowfall. Jenna was anxious to get out in it. She even tried to catch snowflakes on her tongue without my encouraging her. I'm guessing she must have remembered this from last year...which surprised me!

I tried to get a picture of our house all lit up.

Enjoying the snow together!

The next day I brought some snow up for their nightly bath time. Jenna mostly enjoyed eating it, although she did play with it some while Grant loved getting a handful and dropping it in the tub. Each time he did that he'd let out a little giggle. :)