Deck the halls

Normally I'm a firm believer that Christmas decorations should not go up until after Thanksgiving. However, since Thanksgiving falls so close to Christmas this year, we decided to put our decorations up this weekend. I had grand plans to get a lot of decorations up while the boys napped.  You guessed it - those plans were a recipe for non-existent nap time.

Liam liked to help put ornaments on the tree but he didn't quite have the hang of how to work the hooks.  He would push the ornament into the branches and hope it stayed there.


It was cool to watch Karsten see all of his old ornaments, get excited and tell us about them.


He was a good helper and hung ornaments high and low all over the tree.


The year we got married, we got a 'Our First Christmas' picture frame ornament as a gift, and we decided to continue the tradition with a photo ornament each year.  12 years later, it's fun to look back at how we've changed over the years. Looking at these ornaments is one of my favorite parts of decorating the tree each year.


The finished product!  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....