Christmas Preperations!

With Christmas right upon us we have gotten a tree and decorated the house!  This year we decided to get a tree from the Moose Hill Tree Farm. 

After much deliberation we decided on a tree.  One that was nice but not too fancy! It did take a while picking a tree because Allyssia wanted a big full tree and I have always been partial to the Charlie Brown style tree! 

The abominable snowman, I mean Roland even approved of the tree!!  For me this was the first time going to a tree farm and I had a great time!  Roland is sitting on the tarp that they give you to drag the tree and let me tell you it was so much easier than dragging it through the snow all willy nilly. 

When all was said and done we had a seven foot Christmas tree all wrapped up and thrown on the roof of my work truck!  Since nobody wants to see us struggling to get a tree in the door and setup we are going to move right onto the cat contemplating what ornaments to take down first!

In all reality Parker only bothers the bottom ornaments on the tree and never tries to climb the tree.  On the same note he loves the tree skirt.  He likes to push it around the living room in a big bunch and then lay on top of it. 

Don't be fooled here he was just waiting for the right time to take the skirt out!!  The other one that loves the tree and bright lights is Roland.  When we first put it up he sat watching the lights twinkle for half the night. 

Roland even got to help decorate the tree! Mostly he wanted to eat the ornaments but we figured that was as close to helping that we were going to get. 

Believe it or not that mouse is one of my favorite ornaments and I was trying to get Roland to throw it on the tree but as I said he was more interested in trying to eat the mouse.

Allyssia made sure to hang Roland's first ornament so he didn't eat it or throw it! (Thank you Alexa for sending it! <3 )  His ornament got clumped in with our first ornament as a couple!

Our Christmas Village is another one of our favorite Christmas traditions.  Our first year we only had four or five village items but as we shop sales and yard sales we have grown our village so big my village stand has become too small.  I have already started a plan to hang a temporary shelf above the stand for more village houses. 

From our family to yours we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  May it be filled with family and friends.  Stay tuned everyone and check back after Christmas.