Sunday, December 4, 2011

It's Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas... :)

It officially smells like a Christmas tree throughout our little house on the ridge...and we are soaking it up! After Church today, we ventured out to find our Christmas tree. After a little bit of a search, we chose this cute little tree...:)


Our tree getting trimmed up...


...and bagged up...



...and tied to our car...


Whit secured our tree for a safe ride home :) 


When we arrived home we brought him inside...
...he was all ready to be decorated...
so we turned on the Christmas music and went to work :) 


Whit is a master at stringing the Christmas lights...


Maya Angelou always says...
"You can tell a lot about people 
by the way they handle three things:
a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights."
:)


Lollie was our little helper :)


She exerted a lot of energy being a little elf  so she decided to take a break 
under the tree...


After the lights were all set, I hung our first ornament on our little tree...


Whit gave me this ornament for our first Christmas last year...
we have decided to make it a tradition that this is the first ornament we will hang on our tree each year, 
so we can remember where it all began. :) 


I bought these last year and they have become some of my favorite ornaments...
I think they are so cute! :) 


During our San Francisco/Sonoma trip in October, we picked up this ornament as a memento of our trip...


Lollie found a perfect napping spot...


Time to put the star on the top of the tree :) 


Our little tree and our little Lollie... :) 


Decorating for Christmas is a lot of work...Lollie is exhausted! :) 


Ever since I was a little girl, decorating the Christmas tree has been a very special time for me. Whitney, Will and I were always so excited to go and pick out our tree and spend the night covering the tree in all of our ornaments. Now that Whit and I have our own little tree, it is so special to start our own traditions and memories that we will always hold close to our hearts. :) 
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
~Edna Ferber