O' Christmas Tree

Christmas is my favorite time of year. I remember when I was a kid and on Thanksgiving afternoon we would start to decorate and I mean start, my mom would have a tree in almost every room, each tree with a different theme. Oran and I only have the one tree (fake because of Thomas, asthma) but decorated with ornaments mom gave us when we were married and some the kids have made. To be honest we have so many ornaments in the garage that when the kids move out they will be all ready for their own trees!
This Thanksgiving we celebrated a little different, the Saturday before we went to moms to have a early Thanksgiving since my sister had to work on Thursday. I usually cook the meal but I was in a small car accident earlier in the week and hurt my shoulder. I was unable to cook but my mom and sister did a great job. So on the real Thanksgiving I was feeling better so we decorated for Christmas and had a lasagna for dinner, OK so it was not traditional, but is was great.

Taylor was hanging an ornament he made in Kindergarten, one of my favorites.

The tree is not complete until Oran puts the star on top. This is the same star Oran and I bought for our first tree 11 years ago. Mikayla had so much fun putting the ornaments on the tree and than taking them off and putting them on again.

Matthew wanted to put his up high

Thomas was putting a ornament on the tree that I made in the second grade he said "I need to be careful because this is really old!"

The Medina kids did a great job decorating the tree, now they are looking forward to the presents that may be under it!


by the way Thomas' shirt says "Dear Santa, my sister did it" he thinks it is hilarious and for his sake I hope Santa believes it .............Ha ha ha