Decorating The Tree

the completed tree-good job kids!

after all the madness i got them to sit still for 2.2 seconds

Avery put the angel ornament on the top

our little stocking stuffer

Tuesday was our planned evening to decorate the Christmas tree. The kids and i came home from allergy shots to Johnny having a spagetti dinner already made! It was a pretty relaxing evening we turned on the Christmas cd like we always do and then the craziness began.... the kids all stacked the different piles of branches to help daddy assemble the tree while Raegan assumed her busy little job of stealing branches here and there from each pile and stuffing them back in the tree box, kept her very busy and entertained but was a bit irritating to her siblings. The kids began sorting their ornaments from years past, and i think for the first year i realized how much they are going to enjoy the ornaments we buy each year (they each get a new one each year) ...they reminisced about each of the ornaments that they had made in sunday schoo, school ect... while Ethan went in the other room and unwrapped a little wrapped milk carton that Avery had made at school last year, thankfully i caught him before complete damage had been done and Daddy was able to fix the package as new! I think it was about that time we heard the first shatter, Ethan had dropped a glass ball and within 5 minutes the 2nd one had shattered. Raegan was taking ornaments off the tree as fast as the kids could put them on and Johnny and i were looking at each other saying isn't this supposed to be fun??? I sat back and filmed and let the kids decorate the tree all themselves. We have a little imbalance of the ornaments it seems in the middle area but over all i think they did a great job. There are ornaments laying all over the house that busy body Raegan removes from the tree all day long (she still believes the word no means, just do it quick and run!) It was a fun evening even with a little stress and now i get to listen to Darth Vader say "the force is with you young skywalker, but you are not a jedi yet" everytime i turn the tree on from now till Christmas, and no that is not Trey's ornament that is Johnny's ornament he has had for years!