For family night we decorated our Christmas tree. It started out like this.
The first thing to tackle is the lights.
And it can be a difficult task. I checked all the lights days before and threw away those not working. (And what is that all about? They work when you take them off the tree and carefully store them away. Then you take them out and you have 3 strands that don't work. It is a mystery along with where the socks go!)
I try to get the lights on during the day when no one is around. I will admit I am a bit (okay, alot) anal about the lights. It takes me forever to get them on. And even tho I checked all the lights before hand, when I went to put them on I had more strands not working. I had to make a trip to the store to buy a few more! We have I think about 1000 lights on the tree. Then we went to put the star on and the lights were out in that!
So this year the star is not lit up. And even tho Rob had cut more off we still could not get the star on the top. So we tied it on with this ribbon. Then the beads went on. And as pretty as it looks we can not leave well enough alone.
Next come the ornaments. (You got to love this shot of Isaac!)
And even tho they try to get away with putting on just their five or so ornaments, Mom keeps handing them more things to put on, glass balls, icicles (I am not sure how to spell that word), family favorites and so on. Some of the ornaments ended up in interesting places, and hanging in interesting ways. Thanks David!
Sam stuck it out and helped out until Mom declared it finished. (He was heading out to YA to play volleyball.)
Everyone gets in the act, even Rob. He gets to hang his favorites, the little elf we got from my mom the first year, the blown glass ornament we got from Maudie and Rick, and our first Christmas ornament.
Almost there!
And then come the pictures in front of the tree. It makes you wonder why we do this because you can not see the tree with everyone standing in front of it! (I know the star looks a little off kilter. It looks great when you walk in the door. But not so good from straight on. May have to move it.)
I love it when it is all done! What a great start to our holiday season. Now I just need to get the rest of the fall stuff put away and the rest of the house decorated. Yikes! Millie
For family night we decorated our Christmas tree. It started out like this.
The first thing to tackle is the lights.
And it can be a difficult task. I checked all the lights days before and threw away those not working. (And what is that all about? They work when you take them off the tree and carefully store them away. Then you take them out and you have 3 strands that don't work. It is a mystery along with where the socks go!) 
I try to get the lights on during the day when no one is around. I will admit I am a bit (okay, alot) anal about the lights. It takes me forever to get them on. And even tho I checked all the lights before hand, when I went to put them on I had more strands not working. I had to make a trip to the store to buy a few more! We have I think about 1000 lights on the tree. Then we went to put the star on and the lights were out in that!
So this year the star is not lit up. And even tho Rob had cut more off we still could not get the star on the top. So we tied it on with this ribbon. Then the beads went on. And as pretty as it looks we can not leave well enough alone.
Next come the ornaments. (You got to love this shot of Isaac!)
And even tho they try to get away with putting on just their five or so ornaments, Mom keeps handing them more things to put on, glass balls, icicles (I am not sure how to spell that word), family favorites and so on. Some of the ornaments ended up in interesting places, and hanging in interesting ways. Thanks David!
Sam stuck it out and helped out until Mom declared it finished. (He was heading out to YA to play volleyball.)
Everyone gets in the act, even Rob. He gets to hang his favorites, the little elf we got from my mom the first year, the blown glass ornament we got from Maudie and Rick, and our first Christmas ornament.
Almost there!
And then come the pictures in front of the tree. It makes you wonder why we do this because you can not see the tree with everyone standing in front of it! (I know the star looks a little off kilter. It looks great when you walk in the door. But not so good from straight on. May have to move it.)
I love it when it is all done! What a great start to our holiday season. Now I just need to get the rest of the fall stuff put away and the rest of the house decorated. Yikes! Millie
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