Still Catching Up: Christmas Eve

It feels strange to not have some sort of big family plans on Christmas Eve and just sort of do our thing. Guess we're still adjusting. We tried to get Paw-Paw to come, but he wanted to wait until Christmas morning, so we just had a quiet Christmas Eve day.

Spence and I finished some pretty sparkly ornaments and decorated cookies for Santa.

Then we spent the afternoon playing and hanging around the house until time to go to a party down the street hosted by Charlie's parents, Anne and Alex. We stayed there a few hours, then came home to get everything in place for Santa. It was late, so posed photos just weren't happening. This is all I have! Spencer didn't want to write a letter to Santa this year. Not sure what that was all about...so we left cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer and called it a night.

Spencer went to sleep fairly quickly, then Dave and I finished wrapping a couple of presents and I had my usual quiet moments gazing at our pretty tree, wanting Christmas to last a little longer.

November Backtrack: Oh Christmas Tree

Don't tell anyone, but we broke the "no Christmas tree until after Thanksgiving" rule. With Thanksgiving being so late this year, and with the weather being so wintry, we decided to do it on Thanksgiving Eve. Plus, we hosted Thanksgiving at our house this year, so the tree made things that much more festive.

I have a feeling this will be the last year Spencer can fit comfortably in the tree box...

I'm very sentimental about Christmas ornaments (shocking, I know). I got a kick out of Spencer unwrapping ornaments and either "ooohing and aaahing" or remembering who gave them to him. 

I forgot to take a hero shot of the tree post-decorating... I'll have to do that later...

Decking the Halls | Brrrrrrrrrrr!

We decorated our Christmas tree yesterday. Spencer loved pulling out all the ornaments and asking me about them. Before we had Spencer, Dave and I always did a more "designer" tree, but now I love using old fashioned ornaments, many of which have a story behind them.

It was chilly this morning so Spencer had to bundle up for school. Wait til you see the other hat I bought him this weekend...gotta get a picture of that one. 

Also, I finally added a November photo album, but Picasa is acting weird and all of the pictures haven't loaded yet. You'll have to check back later because I have to scoot to band practice now.

Note: I discovered the problem - I ran out of Google storage space. Upgrading now and pictures should be online tomorrow.