Tuesday, December 8, 2009

It's Beginning...

To look a lot like Christmas! We came back from Thanksgiving in full blown crafting and decorating mode. I am doing all handmade gifts this year and we are also trying to do little traditions around the house to make it all special.
The advent is hung and full of gifts from FarMor and FarFar.

Gingerbread houses are made.


We went outside hunting for a tree and AnaSofia made me a "happy mommy day!" garden.

We brought in the little tree found on our property and cut a few feet off the bottom, a few feet off the top, then some more off the bottom to make its sad little middle fit inside the house...
We made a popcorn garland because that is what Islwyn did, but our organic popcorn was too fluffy to string so AnaSofia and I just sat and ate it all.

Kasper strung the lights. Well, he ate them which made me realize the tree might be in danger this year so now it just has lights around the trunk.

When it was all dressed up we decided it looked pretty lovely after all!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh so pretty! I love your pictures and the festive music!! So excited to see you at Christmas!! Everyone all together for a few days.
love,
Nana

Sarah said...

Love the tree. Looks a lot like our tree last year! And who is that big boy???? I guess the secret to doing popcorn garland is letting it sit out for a day and go stale. Ours was too fluffy the first day too and kept breaking. But after the popcorn sat out a day it worked great. :) Missing you guys.

Anonymous said...

your house looks so festive, and of course the kids are adorable! Love your tree!
glad you are doing well, thinking about you lots..