Last weekend we dove into the Christmas season head first! We started out at dinner with Nana & Papa, Uncle Bruce & Lin and cousin Mya. It was D-lish! Downtown Omaha is not normally what I would call stunning...but at Christmas time, that's exactly what it is. Every tree in the Old Market is wrapped in lights and it is just beautiful.
After dinner, we hightailed it a few freezing blocks to go see The Nutcracker Ballet. This was very special for me, because growing up we went to the Nutcracker every year and I just loved it. So taking my own family to join in the tradition was very special. Sawyer and Mya loved it and of course whispered through the entire thing! It was such a great evening and really got us in the Christmas mood!
Raylan waiting to go to church. Is he not the cutest thing you've ever seen?
Ever since Bill and I got married, we have been on 'Team Artificial Tree'.....except for this year. We decided to be brave and do the whole live tree thing. I had been building this event up in Sawyer's mind for weeks...all of us together, prancing through Santa's Woods to find the perfect tree, Bill cutting it down and tying it up on our car, and singing Christmas carols all the way home. Nice huh? That did not happen.
The thing that pretty much pooped on our parade was the fact that the temperature dropped so there were like arctic winds blowing a million miles per hour. We drove all the way out to the tree farm, bundled up, rode on an open air tractor to the woods, got off and it took about thirty seconds to decide that this was no fun at all. So the boys and I jumped on the next tractor back and Bill and Liz set off to find the perfect tree.
While we were waiting for their return, we were able to see Santa! Being as how Raylan just loves a good beard, he just went to town on Santa's. We sipped hot chocolate and apple cider and as we started to warm up, our Christmacy moods reemerged.
Bill and Liz found a GREAT tree! They wrapped it up and threw it in the back of Liz's truck and we headed home to do some decorating!
Sawyer has been so so so excited about taking down our Christmas boxes and decorating the tree, so now that the day was finally here, he could barely contain himself!
Getting it to stand up straight in the stand took a while, but eventually it was in!
No more pre-lit trees for us!
Sawyer's method of decorating is to just put a bunch or ornaments all in one spot.
I let him do it and then just rearrange them when he's not looking :)
Ta-Daaaaaaaaa
Hope you all have your trees decorated, your mistletoe hung and Christmas cookies on your counter!
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Saudades!!!
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