Trim the tree.....

Christmas is definitely my favorite time of the year.  I love warm sweaters, early mornings with coffee and just the lights of the tree and traditions.

Every year we go and cut down our tree.   Everyone LOVES it.   I usually love it until my arms feel like they are going to fall off from holding one of the kids while we walk through the trees and they begin to slowly slip from my arms because of their nice silky snow pants and then I'm trying to make sure Katie is following us and not looking up at "nothing" and walking at a turtle pace....oh and then making sure Nathan is paying attention and holding the saw in a position that absolutely nothing could go wrong.....all the while trying to pay attention to Ben asking if this tree looks good or maybe we could look at the other tree that is over the hill and around the bend and down the road (well not really but it sure felt like it).....it usually gets to the point that I look at him and say....ANYTHING please just cut one down. They all look great just pick.

BUT....

This year we walked over to the area with the type of trees we love, which just happened to be next to the entrance, and walked about 20 feet and I hear.  Wow, look at that one!  Let me tell you it was like God was saying.....Here have an easy year Juli.  And you know what... Thank you Lord.  It was quick.  The kids loved it and we got an awesome tree.  I did however fall down walking back trying to hold Ana and the branches that Ben cut off the bottom of the tree because I "needed" to have them.  Oh and when I fell there was of course other people right there...ughhhh oh well we had a tree!!!

Then we headed home and that night set up the tree.  This year was so fun with the kid's ages.  They got so excited about certain ornaments and were actually able to get them on the tree to the point that they stayed and didn't fall off within a few minutes :-) And of course we cranked up the Christmas tunes nice and loud and danced!

helping me separate the lights...ughhhhh

Caleb I can not wait to create these memories with you......love you more then you know!