This first picture is a good summation of our Saturday. It started out with our yearly Chrismas tree cutting. We are lucky enough to live somewhere that we can buy our permit for $10 and go into the national forest (a designated area, of course) and choose our own tree. It ended with the Woodland Park Christmas parade. Jim is in the parade with the student council kids from the high school, so our kids are lucky enough to have never attended a Christmas parade, but to always be in it! Faith has been in three and Joel in two now. This is the first year they dressed up as boxes along with daddy and walked the whole time! (Last year, the double stroller was decorated.) Sadly, there are no pictures from the event, but they gladly dressed up later to pose with the tree!
We spent Sunday putting up the rest of our decorations on the tree. Faith and Joel loved it even more this year, and it was an absolute delight to watch them remember the ornaments and tell stories and bask in the glow of the tree.
I think the kids hung up more than half of the ornaments, while mommy and daddy repaired some old ones and took pictures.
Here's their finished product!
This is their early Christmas present. My (Heather's) Grandmother paints china. I have more than twenty china ornaments... one for each year of my growing up and a few there afterward. The kids are starting their own collection now, which we will treasure for a long time. This year she painted trains, much to Joel's delight!
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