Christmas Trees

I love Christmas! I love to decorate for Christmas! I just wish I had a little more time to do so - as well as time to enjoy our decorations. This year, we decorated four trees...years past, I've done five and some just one. Brendan and Jackson decorated their own this year...all by themselves! I decorated Emma's and our main tree as well.

JACKSON'S TREE

Jackson decided to add blue lights to his tree this year. He found a strand of these lights in some of our other decorations and decided that they needed to be on his tree.

Our dear friends in Louisiana exchange Christmas ornaments with the boys each year, and this was Jackson's from last year:

The boys also get to choose one H*llmark ornament each year. I started this when Brendan was a baby. We do H*llmark for the annual ornaments not because they are my favorite, but because they each have the date on them. They also come in their own box which I like for posterity's sake. Also, I started collecting the H*llmark Barbie ornaments a LONG time ago. These now all belong to Emma, and I am continuing to add to her collection.

EMMA'S TREE

Emma's tree is white, and it is filled with hot pink glass balls alongside her Barbie ornaments. I also bought a set of vintage Russian glass ornaments on eb*y.

I also got this vintage Russian H*allmark Barbie ornament on eb*y. In the lower righthand corner, you can see one of those glass Russian ornaments.

This is the 2010 Barbie ornament:

BRENDAN'S TREE

It's all about baseball!

MAIN TREE

This is our 10 foot North Carolina Frasier Fir.

And one of my absolute favorite ornaments:

You can order these ornaments and other frames from this very talented lady from NC.

I hope you have enjoyed our Christmas tree tour!

"The big tree stirred and opened his eyes,

and what he saw was such a surprise.

'You have made me beautiful for all to see,

and now I am a Christmas tree.'"

~from "A Wish to be a Christmas Tree"