Monday, December 6, 2010

Decorating the Tree

We had a fun-filled weekend of soccer practice for Merrick, Christmas shopping, attending a friend's house for a very nice Hannukah celebration and delicious meal, more Christmas shopping, running in the rain for me, and picking out a tree.

It rained all afternoon and evening on Sunday, which gave us the perfect excuse to decorate the inside of our house with all our Christmas decor. Then we put on Christmas music, made hot chocolate, and had so much fun decorating the tree. This is the first year Merrick is truly appreciating the holidays and understanding the traditions. He loves singing Christmas songs, loves hearing the stories about Rudolph and Frosty, and the threat of Santa not delivering presents actually works!

Some pictures below from our tree selecting/decorating - don't you just love the chokehold Merrick has on Dexter in the third picture:

2 comments:

Lori said...

That makes me laugh about Dexter. I'm surprised he's not blue in the face! Cute pics!

Anonymous said...

I love the photos. And his singing is so cute. I think he was just demonstrating "where" the red nose should be located on Rudolph....

You guys have great pix and memories!