Oh Christmas Tree…

How happy I am that you are finally up!

It finally feels like Christmas in our house!  Ryder got in his Christmas jammies, I turned on some Christmas music, the guys went up in the attic and got out our Christmas decorations down, and so began the delightful evening we spent decorating.

Okay wait, that sounds way too picture perfect.  Let me tell you how it really went…we didn’t have a ladder so this is how they got in and out of the attic:

 

Then Gregg was being all bahumbug and wouldn’t help us decorate, so I made him cook dinner because we were starving.  The Christmas music they were playing on the XM radio channel was horrible…I couldn’t find a good station playing any of the Christmas music that puts you in the spirit.  We had to yell at the dogs about 542 times to stop stepping on the lights as we were stringing them around the tree.  Thankfully, Ryder was in his jumper occupying himself, but I kept asking Alan “what is that smell?!”  For some reason, the thought of some rodent climbing into one of our Christmas boxes and dying seemed so much more possible to me than the reality that the smell was actually coming from our sons diaper…especially since that made his FOURTH one today!  It was really bad.  Auntie Ressa bought him the cutest long johns, they even have a trap door, obviously Ryder wanted Mommy to have to make use of it:

So, needless to say, Ryder’s 1st Christmas decorating experience was nothing like a scene out of the movies!  But, it’s still a special time we got to share as a family and I look forward to the many years to come as Ryder grows and starts to learn the real meaning of Christmas and how exciting it is!! 

Just a sidenote: all of our decorations were passed down from Ryder’s Grandma (alan’s mom)…so having this beautiful tree, decorated exactly as she used to have it, shining so bright, not only brings the Christmas spirit into our home, but also the spirit and happy memories of someone that we love and miss so very much.