Decorating The Christmas Tree (Again)

We decided to make our own Christmas tree decorations this year. It's something I've always wanted to do, but never have, so when Kenny suggested it I readily agreed. We popped some popcorn and made garland out of cranberries and the popcorn. The kids had a lot of fun making the garland and I was impressed with how well they did. Sarah Kate finished one whole string, Ben got half of one done, Hannah helped Daddy by pushing the popcorn and cranberries down the string, Gracie sat on the counter eating popcorn and squishing cranberries (what fun), and Daniel sat nicely in his highchair watching us all work. It was a fun thing for us to do as a family. I think it may become another one of our Christmas traditions.

Popping the popcorn. My kids love watching popcorn pop. But really, what kid doesn't?!

While listening to Christmas music Ben begged us to let him listen to 'Move Along,' one of his favorite songs. When we turned it on he had to get on the table and dance (something my kids think is so fun to do.)

We started making our garland. Sarah Kate was very good at it and made sure she got the best popcorn and cranberries for her string.

Is this not a look of complete concentration! Don't want to get poked by that needle.

Hannah helping Daddy slide the popcorn and cranberries down.

Dan happily watching us all from his highchair.

After we'd made garland for about an hour we decided to see how much more we needed to make. We went downstairs to put it on the tree. While there we also decorated with candy canes.

Hannah putting on a candy cane.

Finally, a picture of Ben decorating the tree.

Obviously we need to make more garland, but this is as far as we got that night. It may not be the fanciest looking tree you've ever seen, but we think it looks great. Most importantly we had a lot of fun together and made some great memories. After all isn't that the sort of thing Christmas is about.

After decorating the tree we had family pray by light of the Christmas tree and then Daddy read the kids "Why Christmas Tree's Aren't Perfect." It's a great book, one I'd recommend if you've never read it, and it was a great story to go with our evening. I LOVE Christmas time.