Tree Time

Last weekend we took the boys out after dinner to pick out a Christmas tree.  We thought they'd enjoy going out "at night" and running through the maze of trees...and we were right!  It was hard to get them to slow down for a minute or two so we could actually pick out a tree.  They really liked watching the workers with chainsaws trim the bottom up before loading it on top of the car.  And little did we know, there was more fun to be had inside the store where we went to pay for the tree.  They had a little house with a ceramic Santa inside, and it took the boys several minutes to slowly work their way up to the house and peek in.  The Santa was about their size, but was a bit confusing for them since he wasn't moving!  We picked up the tree Friday night, and it took us all weekend to get it decorated in small chunks of time during nap breaks and evening bedtime.  We let the boys spend some time "helping" with the lights on Saturday and they had a blast.  They think it's so cool to have an outside tree in the living room.  We pulled out the play yard to try and convince them they were playing in an open fort while we continued decorating the tree, but only Spencie was fooled by that trick!  I guess the play yard is still new and exciting to him, while the big boys knew they were being held prisoner.  More pictures of the finished product to come...

Owen nervously waits for Santa to make a move!

The twins love smelling flowers!!