I love the decorations and lights,
I love the weather,
I love seeing strangers find acts of kindness to do for each other,
I love cheesy Christmas movies,
I love all the cookies,
I love Christmas music, and
I love the smell of our real tree!
Technically, it was Jenna's turn to pick out our tree this year, but she was more interested in running around chopping all the trees with her "special stick". So Paul and I took over and found the most perfectly shaped tree! Jenna has named it Thirsty, because it drinks a ton of water!
I know it doesn't have a lot of ornaments now, but we each get to pick out our own every year. So, give us a couple more years, a couple more kids, and we'll have that tree full in no time! And it'll be so fun remembering the old ornaments we picked as we decorate each year! For instance, Jenna picked out a Little Einsteins ornament, and Paul (I'm sure) will remind us every year for the rest of our lives how it sounds like she is saying "little wise guys". He thinks it's soo funny.
Looking at the tree now, though, I'm thinking I probably should add some ribbon or something...
Tree #2: I recently got on to Pinterest, and I love it! I'm finding so many cute decorating tips and activity ideas, like this gem that we put up for our FHE activity:
A felt Christmas Tree Jenna can decorate over and over again! So cute.
Tree #3: Tonight we started our nightly devotionals about Christ! It is so important to keep our thoughts centered on Him, especially during this season when we can easily be distracted by so many other things!
Jenna certainly didn't forget the routine from last year! She was ringing the bells with gusto and waited patiently to put the ornament on the little tree.
The red ornaments represent the blood of Christ and remind us how much He loves us!
4 comments:
Super cute trees! Could you please tell me more about your nightly devotionals to Christ? It sounds like something I would love to do with Katie! Thanks!
you'll have to tell me where you got all your supplies. That is the most daunting part for me. :) Cute clock too - good work.
Love it! I'd like to know more about the nightly devotionals too--it sounds like such a great idea!
I love the felt tree idea. Your "real" tree is very cute also. I am glad you got one. Your ornament idea is fun. My favorite ornaments are ones my kids made or the ones with my kids pictures on them. I also love the ones that I got for each baby when they had their first chrismas because of the "sentament". I will save them and give them to the appropriate kids when I die. The others are just "decorations". I LOVE christmas and the "family" feeling it gives me. I will miss not having you around this year, but I am so glad you are having a wonderful time creating your own "family" memories.
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