'Tis the season!

I have always truly loved this time of year. After I met Quyen I fell even more in love with Christmas. He enjoys it as much as I do. His family had the tradition of going out the weekend after Thanksgiving and cutting down their tree and the first year we were together I joined them. We had so much fun that day! We then adopted this fabulous tradition in to our own family after we were married. Decorating for this holiday has always been a fun time for us to spend together and we make a day of it. This year however our kids were very sick and we just could not rationalize trucking them through the woods in the bitter cold wind. So instead we bought our tree at Walmart! I know, I know, I feel like such a sell out! It really is a beautiful tree though. We spent the day decorating our tree, our house and enjoying good food together just the four of us. I feel complete and overwhelmingly blessed! I think I may enjoy this day more than Christmas itself. Olivia is really in to the holiday this year and it is so much fun. We've been watching all of the classic Christmas specials together and she talks about Frosty the Snowman and Santa all the time. She had a great time helping me hang the ornaments (many of which are have her name and/or picture on them and she gets a kick out of that. "Mine mama?") Tavian has been very good thus far about leaving the tree alone but he did enjoy all of the boxes and commotion today.