Monday's w/ Michael
As you all know, Jane and I love our traditions. And no other holiday has as many traditions as Christmas. For us, the Christmas season begins the day after Thanksgiving, as we battle the masses searching for the perfect gift on Black Friday. This year, we left home a little after 4:00 AM and got to Target before they opened at 5:00. We had a great day and made a lot of really good purchases. Thanks Mom & Dad B for watching the boys overnight so we could get an early start.
The next tradition comes the following day when we go pick out our Christmas tree. For the past couple of years, we have gotten our trees from the Fennig family at Holly Pines. http://www.hollypines.com/index.html They make it so much fun. They have a straw bale maze in their barn and a cute little gift shop in one of their other buildings.
They offer wagon rides.
They even have their very own Santa!
Deacon enjoyed helping us pick out the perfect tree. Unfortunately, his choices were a little smaller than what we had in mind.
Once we find the perfect tree, the next adventure is getting it home safely.
Later that evening is another favorite tradition: decorating the tree! Deacon was quite the little helper this year. Here he is helping Mommy with the lights.
He even wanted to stand on the stool so he could reach higher.
And he loved putting on the ornaments.
These are just a few of our fun Christmas traditions. This is such an exciting time of the year and we have so much to look forward to over the next 18 days.
Make it a great week!
Man those Christmas traditions sound so nice and Deacon looks like such a helper. I understand now why he always was taking the ornaments off the tree downstairs. Great post there Michael..looking forward to spending some nephew time here shortly.
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p.s. what did you get me for Christmas? (i know you have me)
Great post, Michael!! You and Jane are such great traditionalists! Love the pics!
ReplyDeleteI COULD JUST SQUEEZE LITTLE DEACON HE'S INTO THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, THOSE PICTURES ARE GREAT. WITH THE TREE TIED TO THE TOP OF THE CAR JUST LIKE THE GRISWALDS CHRISTMAS VACATION. FINN'S TELLING SANTA WHAT HE WANTS. GREAT POST, LOVE DAD/GRANDPA B.
ReplyDeleteI love your heart for tradition! Michael, you started out quite young enjoying Christmas trees. For a couple of years, you would throw quite a fit when it was time to take the tree down. You would get very mad at us when we threw the "fire hazard" out. The pictures were so great...Deacon looks like he is having so much fun! Enjoy the rest of the month and all that joys that come with it! Love you, Mom
ReplyDeleteTHOSE ARE SUCH GOOD PICTURES MICHAEL.DEACON LOOKS SO CUTE HELPING MOM. I LOVE HIS LITTLE HAT! FINN LOOKS SO SMALL WITH SANTA. CHRISTMAS IS SUCH A SPECIAL TIME OF THE YEAR. OTHER THAN GIFTS, GRANDPA SCHWEHN LOVED THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS, THE BIRTH OF JESUS! WE LOVE YOU ALL,MOM B.
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