deck the halls

After Thanksgiving, we took the family out and bagged us a tree. It was the first time in a few years that we cut our own instead of going to the tree lot. It was fun and I was picky (not as picky as Jack apparently) so it took a little while but we finally found a nice, yet affordable tree. Sorry, but I'm not dropping almost $50 on a tree we're going to throw away. Not going to happen this year. We got the stockings hung...

and got out the hand-made snowflakes my grandma made years ago. These go on our tree every year. I love them!

Jack took over the decorating early and did most of the snowflakes. I of course filled in where he couldn't reach.

Alex hung about two ornaments then played Wii the rest of the time.

And when it was all done, it looked like this...

It doesn't look like that anymore...Ben likes to throw things into the tree, he's busted at least three silver ornaments, and takes off the lower snowflakes and throws them around. Our tree looks beat down by the time Christmas rolls around :)

Oh, and GO BEARS!!!!