This year we decorated for Christmas a week after Thanksgiving. Tangent: we hosted two Thanksgiving dinners on consecutive weekends between the actual Thanksgiving day. They turned out wonderful-(sorry no pictures) and I would love to continue the tradition as the years continue. We sent out formal invitations to Stan's co-workers and my school mum friends. I had so many friends tell me that they were flattered to be invited to an American holiday and that this would be their first one and everyone offered to bring something to help with the feast. I intentionally delegated 'unique dishes' to the ones that were the most excited about the dinner (i.e. sweet potato casserole, corn bread, etc.. things you don't eat out here). I had printed out a description of what Thanksgiving dinner is, what you eat etc...overall it was a lot of fun and I loved it!
The week after our dinner I returned all our tables, chairs etc... and got out the Christmas stuff, the kids were so excited!
Here we are fighting over the mistletoe ...Stan and I won- XOX
My favourite part about decorating the tree is the excitement from the kids while the Christmas music plays and the memories that flood back as I look at old decorations. Here was an early decoration when it was just Stan, Olivia & I in 2003
Olivia putting up some decorations
A Christmas decoration given to Stan and I from Grandpa Harry and Grandma Sue Tengelsen when we were first married. Stan specifically mentioned how he wanted to get our children decorations each year because it was such a good idea and he really appreciated this gesture in hindsight. We were given a decoration from my grandparents every year until we were out of school.
Mary kissing the toy soldier
An ornament we got in Sydney in 2010 with all our names on beach chairs. I started ordering decorations after my grandparents stopped, now we have one for every year!
Mary with her purple tree that goes in her room
Stan put on one decoration- his Precious Moments decoration from when he was a child.
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!!
1 comment:
Merry Christmas! I hope it was as fun as you anticipated! Your kids are so adorable and it really does look like the life! I'm so happy for you!
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