We are loving the holiday spirit around this time of the year. We're starting family traditions and enjoying seeing Jack understand the season a little bit more this year.
Tyler & I haven't gotten a real Christmas tree since we lived in Fort Worth (5 years ago!)...so this year we were ready for one!
We headed off to scout a few of the tree lots & home improvement stores & found the perfect tree in the size we wanted.
We tend to buy large trees that won't fit in our house with low ceilings :)
We had to measure it and trim it down just a bit with Jack's help...
One Sunday night, we put on the Polar Express (Jack loved) while I decorated the tree.
I enjoy looking at our ornaments & hanging each one. Tyler has given me a silver James Avery ornament every year since we've started dating so to date I have twelve total. We try to pick up ornaments on vacations & of course it's fun to hang Jack's homemade ornaments & baby's first Christmas.
Since we have a real tree Jack got the small, fake tree in his big window & both kids have tiny trees in their rooms (with shatterproof ornaments!).
We also had an ice day last Tuesday. It was nothing like Dallas had & we weren't even really expecting it but we woke up on Tuesday & the roads had iced overnight so Jack didn't have MDO (Tyler thankfully made it into work safely at 6am).
It melted by mid morning, but Jack stayed in his pj's most of the day and we baked & decorated Christmas cookies. We kept it real simple.
There will be lots more baking being done in the next 10 days & I can't wait!
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