Monday night was our big put up the Tree FHE. We LOVE this one. We did all our usual traditions with a picture of everyone with their ornament from Grandma Hatch. She's given all the kids a "first Christmas" ornament with their birth year on it, so those are special ones. I couldn't decide which picture to post. I always like a few of the kids in one and the other few in another.... too bad I can't just be easy to please :)
This felt like the first time for Erika all over again. I think she felt that too. And it was fun that we could decorate the bottom half of our tree again! She really got into it and acted like such a big girl the whole time.
Noah had a good time too, and felt relatively new at all of this as well.
Charity had fun helping the little ones a lot. She also took a picture of every ornament she put up with her newly found camera. That was fun to watch :)
I liked how well it went this year. Usually seems lots more chaotic. Everyone waited their turn for the most part and I was able to unpack all of the ornaments in a relatively orderly fashion. That is priceless in my opinion. I was surprised at how few ornaments we had this year.... I mean, I guess I shouldn't say few, we have too many, but it's a lot less than past years. I think we had a lot more casualties last year than I remembered, being that it was a hard floor and all.... anyway, I guess they can't last forever!
Bradley struggled a little this year, with wanting to be able to do more than I was letting him do. So I put him in charge of one of the boxes of ornaments and let him pass them out with the hooks. He did a great job.
Look at this adorable face :)
I let Nate man the camera this year.... he does some fun stuff. This was my favorite.
This is one of our traditions that just kind of snuck up on us :). We take turns putting the angel on the top. It was Noah's turn this year. I had to go check the blog to be sure, I couldn't remember, but he was so excited, and was very honored. Charity did a drumroll and videotaped it all with her camera, so it must be special to her too :). Fun stuff.
This is our other one... the Holiday Specs! Still just so cool!
Here's our beautiful overdressed tree :) We love it and that's all that matters :) I know I'll miss the randomness of this tree one day... I just know it.
It was fun to put our stockings up again this year! I love them so much more than the old ones! It looks like so many when they're all strung up like that :) I love it. We went in birth month order this year. Noah, Luke, Charity, Kelly, Nate, Bradley, Erika, and Me. Fun stuff.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Maynes' house!!!!! YAY!!!
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