Oh Christmas Tree

Our family members are all huge fans of Christmas. In fact, just last week, Violet, at fourteen years of age, told me that she "could not wait for the Christmas magic to start." We do allow Christmas music to play almost as soon as we are done eating turkey and heading home in the car, however, we usually do not get our Christmas tree so close to Thanksgiving. But, we realized that Thanksgiving was actually pretty late and it was the perfect weekend for a long drive out to a Christmas tree farm to cut down our own tree. Finding the "perfect" tree is a very serious issue and the Mr. gave everyone instructions: it couldn't be too tall, and not too squat, it couldn't have "gaps", and they had to look for ones that did not have lots of brown needles in the middle. And so, we roamed the field checking out as many trees as possible so that we wouldn't miss the one that was destined to come home with us. And we think we found it. Our living room ceiling is not very high so it is not a huge tree, but it is just right.

Jack Jack starting his search. It was actually pretty cold, but he refused to wear a coat. At least he had clothes on.

Dash telling Jack Jack "let's go look over here..."

I don't think we have seen every tree yet...

And it is done...And there is our "other" kid. Violet's best friend who also seems to be a member of the family.

Jack Jack finally agreed to smile.

The perfect tree hunting day ended with pizza and the Polar Express and Elf and snuggling under blankets with popcorn. And it is all part of the "magic of Christmas." So, let the season begin!