It's beginning to feel like Christmas

Every year I normally get all the Christmas stuff up the day after Thanksgiving. But this year with Isabel's birthday, my family in town for the weekend and being pregnant we just got the tree up this week. It never quite seems like the holidays until I get my tree up. I still have all the other decorations including my village to put out. I don't think we will get to the outside decorated but oh well. Isabel is really getting into the season as she yells Santa anytime she sees anything that even remotely resembles a Santa.

Isabel really liked decorating the tree. She had one favorite place on the tree to put all her ornaments. However, she got tired after about 15 minutes and spent the rest of the evening trying to get a Santa hat to stay on the dog.

Here is the completed project. I am just glad that it is finally done. I forgot how much work it is to get it out of storage, unpacked, put together, fanned out and then get the large number ornaments on the tree. I guess we should have gotten a smaller tree then this 9 foot one but any other just won't have looked right in our foyer with the huge ceilings.

My baby girl in her gingerbread dress.