Decorating for Christmas

It was time to go into the garage and find all the Christmas stuff on Saturday. I bought a fake tree...I know...I said I was NEVER going to have one but I just couldn't bring myself to spending over $100 on a real tree....and it started from there....the whole decorating for Christmas thing. I got the tree up...man...they make them so easy to put together now. So after my like hour of rearranging my lounge...I was finally pleased with the arrangement of furniture. The girls and Dan decorated the tree while I took pictures and unwrapped all the tissue paper from all the decorations. We opted not to use the glass bulbs and just go with the ones my mom and I made and burned our fingers many times a few years ago. We saw these bulbs at this cute Christmas store and thought...hey we can make those! And so we did...but I have to admit...I got tired of hot glue burning my fingers so my mom did most of them.

I just love them.

Anyway...so we got the tree decorated. I then finished up the lounge with some decorations. I still need to make snow flakes with the girls and make something to dangle from the lights. Something sparkly I'm sure....and garland is all around the doorways. Dan came down and was like, whoa...it's like we live in a forest. I was also super excited finding all the gift boxes I forgot I brought back from the states to wrap clothes in since last year I couldn't find any in this country...or if I did it was so insanely overpriced I couldn't let myself spend that much on a box. So this year, our presents will be neatly wrapped in boxes which I'm soooo excited about. My life must truly be boring if I'm getting excited about boxes....seriously!

And we know where my girls get their cheesey smiles....

I love how my sister, Christina, described this picture....Madison is happy, Hannah is like I don't care, Isabella is asleep and I'm just a little too excited about the tree.

And now Madison looks like the goof....there always has to be one of us.

I also saw New Moon this weekend, finally, with a friend. I think the best part was when my friend leaned over to me after Jacob took off his shirt the first time and said, "My £8 was just well spent." Oh how that made me laugh.