The Tree.

I have so many childhood memories that I love. Especially the ones from Christmas time. Setting up the tree was always a big deal. My mom has so many Christmas decorations that we would set up at the same time. I remember especially having to wait for Mom to put the lights on the tree. Now I know why it always took so long ;) At least my mom could get them up in one night... I on the other hand I took awhile longer :)

All of my siblings and myself have an ornament that my Grandma Fowler gave to each of us on our first Christmas. My Mom continued this tradition by giving all of her grandchildren an ornament of their own. My kids ADORE their ornaments :) Evan's is a reindeer and Makiah's is a Precious Moments girl holding a lamb (which is fitting, Makiah loves animals). Makiah kept saying that her "baby" (ornament) was sad, probably because of the shape of the eyes that Precious Moments have. She kept hanging it up and then holding it again, she really loves it. 

My Mom would take a photo of each of her kids hanging up their ornaments and stockings each year. Since I am photo crazy I am trying to do the same. We still need to figure out the stockings though... we just have candlesticks holding them up so it is hard for the kids to hang them themselves. Dallas' Mom made our stockings and I LOVE them so much! 

I know I look like I just woke up and maybe went running or something.... but at least we got a picture of Dallas and I, right? Evan took this photo, he even told us where to sit and everything. He gets it from me :)

Ahhh, we finally got the tree decorated. It is so nice to be able to sit and listen to Christmas music and look at the lights. I love this time of year!!