Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Christmastime 2011!!

At the Christmas Tree Farm

We found the perfect tree--for us, anyway!

Kiddos posing with our tree

Young one found a wooly bear caterpillar

Hauling our tree toward the building to have it baled & shaken

My Honey, the great Christmas tree hunter

Girls posing in front of the Thanksgiving tree we made as we get the Christmas tree set up

Son setting up train tracks for around the tree--his annual Christmas job!

Dad adding the angel

Kids helping add the ornaments

Working together

Youngest trying to get them to stay on!

I really did help--I did not just lie around!

Our 3 little gifts!

Smiling for the moment

My favorite tree pic of the kiddos this year

The finished product (I think it looks the same every year!)



These pictures show us gearing up for the Christmas season, 2011.  I don't know about you, but it seems to come so fast for me, and yet the kids seem to think it takes FOREVER to come!  We're trying to be able to take some time to read some good books (including the Bible!) and stories that remind us what Christmas is really about.  We also enjoy watching some of our favorite Christmas movies together.  (One of our favorites is White Christmas, which we haven't had the chance to watch yet, but we will!)  We love the reminders of God's LOVE through the Christmas season, and try to pass on some love ourselves as well.  We pray that we will continue to learn to love God more and more each day, and learn to love each other more and more each day of 2012!

1 comments:

Renee said...

Hi Melissa! You guys all look great. Your children are beautiful and look so grown up since we saw them last. We look forward to seeing you guys in June.
Tell Kaylee happy belated birthday. Like always my cards are late.:-) Love and miss you all! Big hugs, Renee