This past week I decorated three different times and it was so fun. When Dan and Ems lived with us, we always decorated together, so now every year we have a tradition of helping each other with our trees. We have more fun doing it together (and plus Dan carries the heavy things up the three flights of stairs for us.) My Mom likes us to help her with her decorating every year as well, so the day after Thanksgiving we start decorating and spend the whole weekend decorating.
This year we decided to spread it out a little because I was scheduled to work on the Friday after Thanksgiving. So, we did Emilee's tree on Wednesday, (although I got sidetracked that afternoon with Fluffy), my Mom's on Friday (which I was actually able to help with some until I got called into work) and mine on Saturday. So, I guess mine was the only one that I was involved in the whole time, but it was a fun weekend of decorating anyway.
On Friday, before we set up my Mom's tree we were moving furniture around and I was vacuuming. Ad and Stace and their kids were there, along with Emma, and they all decided they wanted to help me vacuum. Aren't they so cute?
(I am wearing my Christmas scrubs since I was on call to work)
All three times we had Christmas music playing. I love hearing little snippets of the music as we are decorationg. I love pulling out the decorations and remembering my favorite ones. I love the memories the different decorations bring! Most of all, I love that it helps me to think more of Christ and His birth and all that it means in my life.
I didn't get many pictures of Em's and my Mom's tree since I was in and out, but I did take some of my decorations when they were done. Here is my tree completed, with a close up of the decorations:
I love to sit on the couch at night with the tree on and read my scriptures or just listen to music and ponder the meaning of Christmas.
Here are some of my other favorite decorations (that are almost like seeing old friends again :) :
The ceramic bear, santa and trees are ones we made in a ceramic class that the four girls and my Mom took years ago. (I also did a ceramic village in that class, but I have not had room to get those out since I moved in to my condo.) I love them because they remind me of that time together with my Mom and sisters. The nativities are some that I have collected over the years, I really love nativities.
Here is the nativity that Jen got me last year. Isn't it beautiful?
