Countdown to Christmas.....the tree!!!

Activity for yesterday (saturday the 5th) was putting up our homely Charlie Brown tree! Its one of the pre-lit ones that we bought the year Brayden was born. When we went to plug all the lights in there was only about 8 branches lit up. I hate messing with Christmas lights! Especially ones that are built into the branches....what a pain! So we had to string our own lights on...the kids had a lot of fun putting the ornaments on this year. My neurotic self had to take some deep breaths so that they could actually enjoy decorating. I only 'fixed' a few of the ornaments that were in danger of falling off or breaking. Speaking of breaking, yeah, the tree was up for less then an hour and the kids each broke an ornament. Most of the ones on the tree are the shatter proof ones, but we did put a handful of others that I thought would be ok on the tree.....yeah, they didnt last. I boxed them back up ;) The last pics in this post are a closeup of the ornament we got at Bronners this year. Each year we pick a new family ornament and brayden chose ours this year :)