Buying and Decorating the Tree

I didn't take *any* pictures on Thanksgiving, but I usually forget to take pictures when we're all just hanging out anyway, so just imagine lots of good food and our family + Adrien and Eric.  And pie.  Mmmm.

Anyway, the day after Thanksgiving is when we start decorating for Christmas, so we went to buy our Christmas tree.

Nathan helped Jared put the lights on it that evening.  By the time all that was done it was kinda late so we left the ornaments for the next morning.

Maya loved the nativity set that Grandma and Grandpa Swinford got for us a few years ago, although after a couple of days she just started chucking the people and animals whenever she saw the set.  Now it's kind of tucked away on our console thing, not really displaying anything, really.  After the older kids went to bed Jared read How the Grinch Stole Christmas to Maya.

Saturday morning we had a nice time just doing ornaments and eating breakfast.

The next day, Rylie was tossing notes into the tree branches for family members to read on Christmas morning and I guess she wanted to change the position of one or get it back or something because she got behind the tree to reach for it and accidentally pushed the entire thing over.  Water got all over the carpet but someone kindly gave us a wetvac a while ago so we used that and some towels to clean that up.  And a fan.  I was able to push the tree back up on my own, but then it wouldn't stay upright so I had to lay it back down and call Jared.  I figured if he wasn't able to come home then I'd just call a neighbor but he was fortunately already on his way out of the church building so he came by to help me get the tree back up.  I wish I'd remembered to take pictures of the tree knocked over, but I didn't!  Here are a couple of pictures where you can barely see that the lights and ornaments are somewhat askew.