Tree Decortating

Yesterday was our official tree decorating day.  I look forward to this day throughout Advent. We always have a great time...decorating the tree, eating way too much and watching Christmas movies.  Yesterday was everything I could have hoped it would be.  The kids just loved looking through their ornaments, oohing and aahing at all of them.  Once the little guys ran out of their own to hang on the tree they dug into the boxes of mine that I've saved.

They each started the day by getting their ornaments from Brad and I. Grant's was a beautiful ornament with Our Lady of Perpetual Help.  Parker had a scene with the Holy Family.  Matthias received a Dummer Boy.  Augustin had the three wise men, Samuel the holy family and then Veronica a holy family.

After that, they spent a long time decorating and the tree was very full when they finished.  I did some rearranging...especially when there were three and four ornaments on the same branch.  Mom said we're going to need 2 trees next year to hold all the ornaments; I think she's right.

Augustin hung A LOT of ornaments.

Matthias also opened his ornament from his Godmother and hung that on the tree too.  Thank you Miss Cheryl

I loved just sitting back and listening to them talk amongst themselves.  All the cute comments and the "I remember this one." and "Oohh look at this one!!"  Just pure happiness from everyone.  We watched White Christmas and Bells of St. Mary's two of my favorite movies.  The food was delicious.  Lots of appetizers followed by scalloped potatoes and ham.  Veronica spent most of the afternoon sleeping, which was probably good thing.  I think this was probably the most relaxing tree decorating day I've had.  The boys are all big enough that they did most of the unpacking of ornaments and decorating themselves and I really just got to enjoy watching them.