Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree!

This year I was so excited for Christmas. It is our first year in our new house and I wanted a new Christmas tree. We found a 9 foot slim tree and I could not wait to decorate. We decided to do the big tree in our front room and then we did a small 6 foot in the family room. I wanted to do a bigger tree in the family room but I did not have many ornaments. So the front room is the more formal tree and the family room is the kids tree. I let them decorate it and just left it. I really wanted to rearrange all the ornaments but it was too funny and cute so I left it. I don't know if you can get the full effect with the pictures but they pretty much put all the ornaments in one area.

Making Christmas Cookies

Every year since I was a little kid I have always made sugar cookies. We would roll the dough, cut them out, then bake and decorate them. We decided to do them last week. It was not quite as fun as I remember. Haha. This is the first year that the kids really helped and I guess I did not realize how much more work it would be. Donovan wanted to lick the cookies and Ellie would just pile the frosting on the cookies till it looked like a mountain of frosting. Usually I will make them and give them to people but this year they had been licked and were not quite as nice as they usually are so we will not be giving them out this year. Hopefully when they are older it will be a tradition that they want to continue and something that they will continue with their own kids.