Christmas is coming

The weekend was full of Christmas celebration and preparation

Pepper and Schuyler hanging out on the couch. Pepper HATES the antlers.


We put up the first of two Christmas trees -- this one is our 'kids tree' in the finished basement. All the crazy ornaments we've amassed over the years go on it.


For example, the aliens occupy a special place on the kids tree...Schuyler felt they needed a candy cane as well.


We started a new Christmas tradition this year ; we cut down our own Christmas tree. There's a little, mostly word-of-mouth tree farm right down the street from us on 6A. It was great. You can actually come and tag a tree any time of the year and watch it grow. Schuyler was funny; she kept asking us to turn the tree on! I guess she thinks the Christmas lights grown on the trees...



Here it is in our living room.

Schuyler is a big help while Rich secures the tree in the stand (I'm surprised Pepper isn't climbing all over him also).




Next we made it to the Christmas party at HYC to see not only Santa but also a magician.


Schuyler did okay with Santa, though she wanted no part of sitting on his lap! (An earlier attempt at seeing Santa last week was a teary failure.)


Hanging out with the Christmas decorations.


Schuyler decides that sleeping under the Christmas tree skirt is the perfect way to end such a busy day.