CHRISTmas is coming!

Christmas decorations are up and I find myself wanting to drink hot chocolate and watch Elf almost constantly. And my favorite channel is back on XM, Holiday Favorites. I love all the old classic Christmas songs. Wes doesn't get excited about Christmas the way I do, but he humors me by putting up decorations so I can enjoy them for the entire month of December. In fact, he put the whole tree up by himself yesterday and started putting lights on it just so I could enjoy it. What a sweet guy.

This is either the 2nd or 3rd tree we have inherited from family. Like the others, it's slightly broken, but we don't care, because we don't have to buy one. It is definitely a step up from the last one we had, where you had to put each branch on individually. Yuck!

So here is a picture of our awesome tree:

Yes, the lights don't match, and yes, there is a dark patch toward the top, but that's ok. I just have to go get one more strand of lights and it'll look good as new.

Reed loves looking at lights on a normal day, but the Christmas tree is out of control. He doesn't know where to look. There are SO MANY LIGHTS! OVER-STIMULATION!! We were talking the other day, and this will be the only Christmas that we can put ornaments on the whole tree. Next year we will probably be decorating the top-half of the tree. I'd better enjoy it now.

Enjoy your neglected November! (that time between Thanksgiving and December which most people already count as December or are wishing it was December already)

The Turners