it's beginning to look a lot like christmas.....

we bought our christmas tree tonight and decorated it. we went real this year cause we are gonna buy a real nice fake one after christmas once they are sale. we went to two different cut down your own tree lots and were surprised that on dec 10th they were not open. the lots that sell precut ones have been opened since day after thanksgiving. we wanted to go cut one down as a family. mady was all bundled up with her snowpants, hat, boots, gloves and winter coat. she was ready to go walking through trails and trails of trees until we found the perfect one. we still got the perfect tree we just didn't cut it down ourselves but we had to pick it out of a bunch of other beautiful trees. so it's almost the same. our mantle is all decorated with our stockings and garland. and this year was the first that we decorated the wall like we did and we like it so it may stay for the years to come. things will change as years go on and we buy different decorations but this works for this year. we haven't decoratd the outside of the house which is really late for us. we want to change it and tony just started his vacation so will have tons more time to do. i just hope we can get done what he wants before christmas!! he has an extravagant idea and i really hope it works out cause it sounds beautiful but a lot of hard work.

(you can see the decorations best in this pix)

(you can see the lights better in the pix)