Christmas Time Is Here

This weekend we were super busy. Trying to get all the Christmas decorations up in and outside of the house. Plus trying to clean up our yard--raking, raking, and more raking of leaves. It was a lot of hard work (with the help of my dad and his leaf blower--thanks you!), but we got it done and now it's so nice to sit back and enjoy the Christmas cheer.

We got our tree on Saturday morning. This year I almost broke down and bought a fake tree. Part of me didn't want to deal with cleaning up the needles everyday. Lazy I know! Jason snapped me out of that quickly and I'm so glad we got our real tree because the house smells great and our tree is gorgeous. While I was putting the lights on the tree I was trying to "involve" Aspen. She decided to put some of her favorite "stuffies" under the tree. I thought it was pretty cute and they look pretty nice hanging out under our tree.

I think Aspen wanted Bella to go under the tree too. There was no way it was happening, but Bella really does love this little girl---for all the abuse she puts up with :)

I don't have all my ornaments up yet, but I'm going to have to make sure the breakable ones stay towards the top of the tree this year. When I was hanging a couple up today, Aspen seemed very interested. Lately she loves being given little tasks: putting things in the trash, putting her book in the book draw, helping pick tomatoes and putting them back in the bowl, etc. So I gave her a kid ornament to hang up. I love that as she gets older we will decorate the tree together.

It was a busy weekend, but a good one. We are looking forward to a busy next few weeks--Yay for the holidays!