Christmas Spirit

We finally got into the Christmas spirit after our big snow (LOL!) and put up our tree yesterday. As usual, Morgan put the tree and lights up and then I let the girls put the ornaments on. I helped by filling in up top.

I ordered this ornament last year and I love it. I always try to put it up top in the front.
This was the best one I could get of them all looking and smiling at the same time. You should've seen some of the outtakes!

Too bad this one was before the ornaments were put on!

Kaylee always has the cutest smiles.

This was Lily jumping for joy.

And Madison's angelic look :) I gave her another haircut and she was really happy about it because it is much shorter than she's ever had. I must say it turned out cute! :D We had beauty shop day over here before we decorated the tree. Even Kaylee got a trim.

Here's the finished product. I thought the girls did SO good on it! All of our ornaments are from our childhood, are special personalized ones (like Baby's first Christmas, etc), are special ones that our loved ones have bought us each year, or are ones the girls have made. I usually try to buy a few each year that have special meaning for that particular year too. This year, I bought a pretty silver cross one, because this is the year that the Lord has made so amazing for us! We've finally gotten to where we have enough special ones that we don't have to use the filler ones anymore. Every single ornament holds special meaning on our tree and the memories are wonderful every time we decorate it! I even have a few that I made when I was a little girl that have survived! And Morgan has one from when he was in Cub Scouts.

We are finally getting a little collection of Christmas decorations. Most of these were given to us by my Stepmom. The girls love them because they all sing and play music and dance around. The little ornaments hanging down with the girls pictures in them were ones they made a few weeks ago when Morgan's Aunt Karen (Aunt KK to the girls) came over to keep them for us when we went to a company dinner. She brought that fun craft project to work on and they loved it!

I turned on those XM music channels you can get on satellite to see if we could listen to Christmas music, but the girls didn't really like what they were playing, so we turned it on the Disney Kids XM music channel. Sure enough, when "Party in the USA" came on, they broke out into a dance and I grabbed my little camera that takes video.

Yep, that's how we celebrate Christmas here in Texas! :D

I'll do a separate post in a few minutes with my church lesson and another cool thing that happened yesterday.