The Christmas tree is up in the Saez house! We decorated it the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend and couldn't be happier with how easy it was to put up and decorate. Last year, in an after-Christmas sale at Home Depot, we purchased an artificial tree thinking that it would be a good idea to use a fake tree the years that we went to Michigan. This is a huge thing for me - in 34 years, I've never had an artificial tree, always fresh! But, we were tired of coming home to a dead tree, with sharp needles littering the living room floor and jamming up the vacuum cleaner. So, we opened up the huge box that had been sitting in our garage for the past 11 months, and started assembling the tree. After a few minutes of trying to figure out the instructions, it came together fast. We kept adding branches, until finally we had to pull out a ladder. We had no idea how big a 9-ft tree really is! But, it is beautiful! And big enough that we actually went through all of the Christmas ornaments we've accumulated throughout the years - through us together as a couple, and those that have been given to us from family and passed down through the years. Truly, one of the best parts to decorating the tree is the unwrapping of the ornaments and reminiscing about the origin of the ornament... a gift.... a memento from vacation.... a Hallmark puppy.....one of the many Baby's First Christmas keepsakes. All special and perfect.
The boys really enjoyed the decorating too. I thought Benjamin would be into everything, but for the most part, he occupied himself with one Florida Gator candy cane - hanging it onto a limb, taking it off, hanging it onto a different limb, taking it off again. Over and over. Owen was most interested in being able to hang ornaments as high as possible on the tree, hoisted up by his daddy.
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| Putting an ornament on the tree |
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| A little higher up |
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| Hanging the candy cane |
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| "I did it! Yay!!" |
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| The finished tree! |
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