It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

We got our Costco tree on Friday and set everything up on the following Sunday. Last year, we were so unmotivated to get the decorations up and probably wouldn't have had Josh's parents not come to stay with us. This year, we couldn't wait! Mostly, I think we couldn't wait to see Legion try to take down the tree because he thought it was a stick for him....

The dogs did really well though and have left the tree alone. Our first tree skirt didn't fare so well though: Legion chewed it up. The next morning, it looked like a snowman exploded. We found a nose here, an eye there, another eye near the crates, some stuffing strewn about. Poor snowman...

Our annual ornaments: Josh got another Where the Wild Things Are and I got my Frosty Friends.

And Josh's very special ornament.

Our family ornament.

The kids' stockings: Abbi's, Hayden's, and Legion's.


The stockings were hung by the chimmney with care.

Our holiday music.

Our tree supervisor, on her stacked beds.

The dogs were exhausted from all of the excitement.

My decorated table. Please don't mind the naked spot on the wall above it...

The finished tree!! Apparently, our past trees haven't been as bushy as this one so we ran out of lights a little at the bottom. Neither one of us wanted to deal with the holiday people so we just left it like this. We'll hit the after-Christmas sales though to get a smokin' deal on a few new strands of lights so we don't have this problem next year.