Christmastime has always been one of my favorite times of the year. The songs, the food, the sweaters, all the decorations, the sometimes cold weather (we do live in TX you know). But now as a mother of many small children I find myself dreading this season! The cold and flu season, that is. Where there are snotty nosed kids running around everywhere, spreading more than holiday cheer.
We are just recently all well. Insert a huge "Praise The Lord!" We just wrapped up antibiotics for two of our little guys and cough syrup for all of them to fight off coughs and stuffy heads. I pray when we go back to the Dr for their check up, we'll be ear infection free!
In the meantime of getting well, we've enjoyed getting our house decked out for the season. Decorations, lights, tree... Oh the tree. I wanted so badly to get a real tree this year. Growing up I wasn't privileged to having a real tree due to stupid allergies (mom, dad and brother). But I'm not bitter. Nope, not me! Not at all... Just fyi, my mother is giggling right about now.
I guess with all of my whining or um, "asking" my wonderful husband finally agreed to get a real tree. So toward the end of last week we loaded up and headed to a tree farm. It was a great (and cold) experience! I wouldn't have minded so much except for the whole... you know... trying to get children healthy thing. Yeah, cold and windy probably set us back a day or two in the snotty nose department.
Also, the boys had "Pajama Day" at Parent's Day Out that day where they watched Polar Express and had some really cute treats based on the movie. They were so cute in their pj's so we decided to leave them in them for out tree picking. What I didn't count on was it being so cold! We tried to stay bundled up as best we could. Cold or not, we had a blast!
Ready and excited to pick out our tree!
My handsome men.
Trying to stay bundled up!
Isn't the wonder and awe in your child's eyes a beautiful thing to behold?
We rode on a trailer pulled by a tractor (which was way cool to our little guys) and took a tour of the tree farm.
This picture is a little blurry but I LOVE the expression on Peyton's face!
Snuggling while we look for trees.
Now we're on foot among the trees searching for "the one".
I love this man.
The littlest tree hunter.
This is one happy momma to be out in the cold picking out a real tree with all of her guys!
Daddy stealing some snotty sweet kisses.
Here's our tree!
Tristan was measuring it to see how tall it was.
Daddy helped a little.
Now we get to cut it down!
With a little help from Peyton...
and Tristan...
(and supervision from Kohen) it's done!
Talking about what we'll do with it when we get home.
Kohen sharing his thoughts. He has lots to say these days... We just wish we could understand him.
We are so proud of our tree. We had so much fun! And who knows... maybe we'll do it again next year!
