Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Christmas tree







When I was young setting up the Christmas tree meant color coordinating tree limbs and fake branches.  My husband grew up with real Christmas trees and can't imagine using a fake tree for Christmas. So we have started the tradition of a family outing to find the perfect tree.  This year we bought a tree from two guys from Oregon, it is called a Douglas Fir.  We had planned a fun evening of Christmas music, hot chocolate and decorating the tree but Cole had other plans.  I spent most of the time trying to calm him down and get him to bed while Chris and Raelynn did the tree. This is why we don't have our yearly picture of Raelynn putting the star on top. Oh well I guess this is only the beginning of traditions not going as planned!  Here are some of the pictures of us bundle up outside and the kids in their Christmas pajamas.


-Tammi

2 comments:

Marc and Laura Rose said...

I love the blog and am so excited to see pics of Cole and all of you! You look great, and that is one beautiful little boy you guys made :) - Laura

Mary said...

Are you saying you didn't like putting a tree together while mom watched and told us to fluff the branches more? Or putting a whole row of blue branches on, only to realize the blue row should have been the bottom row? hehehe. Thank God for pre-lit trees is all I have to say!