Putting up the chirstmas tree...

This year was really exciting for me to put the tree up. Last year Emily could have cared less about putting it up, but she loved to pull all of the bulbs off of the tree. So this year when I asked Emily if she wanted to help us put up the tree, she jumped up and down yelling, "Yes, it's Christmas!! Yes, it's Christmas!!" She helped her daddy spread all of the branches out so that they looked good. It was funny casue she is such a perfectionist that it took her forever just to do one branch and then when she was done with one she would stop, look at it for a minute and then change something that needed fixed in her eyes.

We were checking all the lights to make sure that they all worked and Emily wanted to put them on her. She called it her "light clothes."

She made Daddy put them on too!!!

Emily had a real good time decorating the tree. She held the lights while I strung them on the tree and she put all the bulbs that she could on the tree. The whole time that she was doing this she would say over and over... "This is so beautiful." Thank goodness for shatter proof bulbs.

I took this picture because this is how the bottom of the whole tree looks. There are clumps on bulbs all right by each other and then a little ways away there is another clump. I tried to tell her that they need to go all over and she said that she put them where they are supposed to be. I decided to leave them how she put them. It gives the tree character. :)

We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year. I hope that you recive all the blessings of togetherness and love this season.