Just a few days after we brought Addy home from the hospital, Brandon turned into Buddy the Elf and decided we needed to go and get our Christmas tree. So we did what any good parents would do...we bundled up our 3 day old baby (yikes) and headed to the Christmas tree farm! I say hey, it's our second baby. Would we have ever done that with our first? Not in a million years. But YOLO, y'all.
We went to Boyce Family Farms again this year and Lucas ran and ran through the rows of trees.
He found an little bitty one that he fell in love with.
And found some little scraps growing amongst the big trees and went Charlie Brown style on it and gave it some love.
After we got our tree, I wasn't expecting to decorate the rest of the house quite yet. It wasn't even Thanksgiving, mind you. And traditionally I think it's just plain old wrong to decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving. I was resting on the couch and closed my eyes for a little while, and when I opened them there were boxes of Christmas decorations all over the living room surrounding Santa's little helper, also known as my husband, grinning with the giddiest Christmas grin you've ever seen. Now here I was, 3 days postpartum. Decorating my entire house for Christmas isn't on my immediate to-do list, you know. Instead my priorities involve trying to feed a baby and get up and go to the bathroom and shower by myself. The struggle is real those first few days, and here I am looking at boxes of decorations.
I didn't have to say anything, my face said it all. My little elf then informed me all I had to do was point. So I stayed on the couch and traffic directed my husband to decorate the house for Christmas. And everyone was happy!
My mom candidly snapped this picture of us decorating the tree, and it just makes my heart sing. Oh, how much we have to be thankful for, especially this year. Lucas was totally in to decorating the tree.
Some of our sweet friends brought a gingerbread house for Lucas to decorate. Poppy helped him build the house, I did the frosting, and Lucas placed all of the candy. He was so meticulous with it, we sat there together for almost an hour while he worked.
Our other Christmas craft was painting letters to go on Lucas and Addy's stockings. Lucas said that we had to put the letters on there so Santa will know whose stocking is whose.
Brandon helped Lucas write his list to Santa. This kid cracks me up.
And then there was Thanksgiving! This picture of the 4 of us sums up the holidays pretty well this year. Brandon and I look so so tired, Addy is just being a newborn, and Lucas is wild and ready to party. Whew.
We had a house full for Thanksgiving and it was lovely. We had Nana and Poppy, Uncle J and Aunt K, and Farrin and Hershey for a belated Thanksgiving. We did a big dinner the Saturday after Thanksgiving and it was overwhelming to me to be celebrating with a new addition to our family.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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