Decorating for Christmas

Seth is very hardcore about "No Christmas until AFTER Thanksgiving", but I like to enjoy the Holiday cheer as long as possible, so our compromise is to decorate for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving.  *Sometimes we shop Black Friday specials, but really we find better deals online, so what's the point?

Here are some pics of our day today, spent decorating and enjoying some fun family time :)

(Read: this is a lonnnnng post, sorry, I got picture happy!)

I love digging through the box of ornaments and talking about all the little trinkets in there

It takes us nearly all day to decorate the house, because we stop for lots and lots of breaks to do this:

 

Seth cursing putting up the tree ;)

we got a fake tree this year for a couple of reasons, 1) saves us money, b/c we already had the tree 2) the cats 3) the toddlers in our house may pull it over, *particularly the tot whose name starts with a "T", ha! 4) we will probably kill it, neither one of us EVER remember to water anything that's not a human around here (the girls remember the cats' water dish more than we do!!

We do love the tradition of going out to the tree farm, so we may still go and just look at the trees and talk about where the trees come from, and visit the little animals they have out there

I thought it would be fun to add some little Santa hats to some pictures that we already had hanging up, to make the house more "festive"

I love this painting of us, my friend Autumn painted it for me for my bday this past year :)

Titus took his morning nap, and Seth took the kiddos up to Dollar General here in Hahira to pick up a few "supplies" garland, etc. I realized it was almost noon and "I" was the ONLY one STILL in pj's, haha

The girls picked out some little ornaments at the store that had the first letter of their names on them "S, N, T" 

Seth said that Stevie wanted to get a "R" for Rocket, and had no clue why we would be wanting an "O",,,who is Olive? haha :)

It was sweet because the girls wanted to place the ornaments very close together because quote "they love each other like we love each other and like to be close"  awww, can they please just stay this sweet, loving, and innocent forever? :)

 

This was a great year for Stevie, she even remembered some specifics from last year's Christmas and really enjoyed helping us get the house all ready

 

Neela was still a little out of it, but when is she not, haha, she lives in her own little world most of the time

"1998" BABY!!!

Seth was very proud of his mantle piece,,,we are so thankful to his Aunt Susu for hooking us up with the stockings and the stocking holders 

The girls have a little fiber optic tree in their room that they were able to decorate, we found it at a yard sale for like a buck!!

How cool is this pic that Seth got of it?

I love letting the kids have freedom when it comes to decorating,,,,all the candy canes in one corner,, nice :)

Titus woke up from his nap and the whole house was giddy with anticipation to see how much he would like all the decorations,,,

He loved them, of course ;)

Speaking of love, I love how some things never change the pic on the left was taken her first Christmas,,,, when she sees a Christmas tree, she feels the need to lay under it and look up at the lights, so sweet! (see, her own little world)

Titus and Neela decorated me in beeds

and themselves ;)

How different does Buddy look since last year at this time?

Onto outside decorating:

Frosty surely would've melted today,,,it was pretty hot!

Can you tell she is pretty excited about all the decorating?  she gets it honest :-)