Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree..................

Two days after Thanksgiving, Andy and I took the kids up to Paradise to pick out our tree.  Andy has been going to this tree farm forever.  My first Christmas down here this is where we picked out our first tree.  We used to chop it down, since this is a U-Cut farm, but now that we have little ones that run all over we picked out a tree that they had brought in.

 We let them around the "forest" and they had a blast.  We are partial to Silvertips, so that is what we got. Kids "helping' Andy put the lights on.

 Last year, we decided to join the masses and do the Elf on the Shelf.  We registred the elf, and that was it. So this year we are slowing introducing said Elf.  Meet Pepe`.  We don't do any tricks or bad stuff. He just moves around the house into silly spots. 

 Laying under the tree looking at lights. This lasted not even 24 hours before the gate was up and around the tree.

 Our Tree before the gate went up.  We are a colored lights, eclectic collector of ornaments, nothing fancy kind of tree decorators. And never a fake tree either.

The kiddo's have had so much fun saying Merry Christmas to everyone they meet. We have watched a ton of Christmas movies/cartoons, and somehow Trent picked up the phrase Happy Holidays, He busted it out on me one night and it was pretty funny.  They sorta get Santa Claus, and they are in love with lights.  We can't drive around at night without them freaking out about displays.