2010 Advent Blog-A-Long #5 - Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas

The tree

Today was a first in our household, the kids helping us put up and decorate the Christmas tree for the first time. I realised today that it will be our third Christmas with Cali and Oscar. Before we had them, Christmas' were becoming a little hard. Christmas to me is all about family, in particular children. We had nieces and nephews to share them with, but no children of our own, despite all out efforts. We are very fortunate that in 2008 we were able to have these precious pair join our family and I can't wait for the excitement of Christmas to grow every year as they get older.

A few snaps of the day. I tried to get a nice pic of them sitting in front of the tree, but anyone who has tried to photograph toddlers would know just how hard it is to get them to sit still, or in my case, face the camera!

Cali & Oscar admiring the tree (or plotting to destroy it)

Helping Daddy with the decorations

Helping Daddy with the decorations

Cali with her very first bauble from Christmas 2008

So tonight the lights are on and flashing and the house is starting to feel festive. Cali was trying to blow out the lights on the tree which was a funny site. A few more decorations to go up tomorrow and we are done.