I'm not one to participate in "Black Friday."
(Which, by the way, WHO named it that? Brent's parents and I agreed last night that it's a terrible name for the first day of the Christmas season).
I don't like to go shopping at all, let alone with 5 million other people all pushing and shoving trying to get the best deal. Sorry, I'd rather spend an extra $5 and get it a week later.
SOOOOO, that means the day after Thanksgiving is usually spent having a relaxing day at home. And what better way to celebrate the beginning of Christmastime than by decorating for it? So here are a few pics of the fun morning (and part of the afternoon......it sure takes longer than you think) the girls and I had decorating.
After wrangling the tree to get it upright and beautiful (not an easy task, just so you know.....my arms have the cuts/scrapes/rash to prove it), the girls went to town decorating it. Last year we bought some kid-friendly (read: non-breakable) ornaments from IKEA. So Tink's job was putting up all the red (plastic) ornaments and AJ's job was putting up all the red and white "presents." You can tell what height each girl is by where on the tree they put their ornaments. It's a very "clustered" tree, but I think it's great!
(Which, by the way, WHO named it that? Brent's parents and I agreed last night that it's a terrible name for the first day of the Christmas season).
I don't like to go shopping at all, let alone with 5 million other people all pushing and shoving trying to get the best deal. Sorry, I'd rather spend an extra $5 and get it a week later.
SOOOOO, that means the day after Thanksgiving is usually spent having a relaxing day at home. And what better way to celebrate the beginning of Christmastime than by decorating for it? So here are a few pics of the fun morning (and part of the afternoon......it sure takes longer than you think) the girls and I had decorating.
After wrangling the tree to get it upright and beautiful (not an easy task, just so you know.....my arms have the cuts/scrapes/rash to prove it), the girls went to town decorating it. Last year we bought some kid-friendly (read: non-breakable) ornaments from IKEA. So Tink's job was putting up all the red (plastic) ornaments and AJ's job was putting up all the red and white "presents." You can tell what height each girl is by where on the tree they put their ornaments. It's a very "clustered" tree, but I think it's great!
Here's one of AJ's clusters.....to make it even, she put a similar-sized cluster on the other side of the tree.
And here's Tink's cluster....hers were clustered all over the bottom of the tree.
Here's the finished product of the family room. But the tree is no longer topped with a Santa hat. AJ made a star out of tongue depressors. She colored them all yellow and glued them into the shape of a star. I love it. There are also quite a few other decorations now adorning the upper part of the tree. All homemade by the 3 oldest kids.
Here's the finished product of the family room. But the tree is no longer topped with a Santa hat. AJ made a star out of tongue depressors. She colored them all yellow and glued them into the shape of a star. I love it. There are also quite a few other decorations now adorning the upper part of the tree. All homemade by the 3 oldest kids. 
Here's the window AJ decorated with the "clings."
And here's the storm door Tink got to decorate with the "clings." I had to hold her up to do the the upper part and as you can see, we decorated a bit with finger prints/streaks as well. :) Nothing new around here.
Brent made the comment last night, as we were looking at the tree, that we definitely have a kid-oriented house. And I told him it was only fair since they outnumber us2 to 1.
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