It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

For the past 2 or 3 years we have talked about driving to a Christmas tree farm to chop our very own tree down. In NC, we would have probably had to drive 3 to 4 hours just to find a tree farm. In Maryland, tree farms are relatively close. We talked about doing this Friday, but decided we didn't have enough time. My husband didn't get home from work until 3pm and most farms close at 5pm. So we drove up to Frank's produce stand and picked out a tree.

They had just started putting their trees up and it didn't take us long to find the one we wanted.

Of course, I made the children pose for a picture. It was a little cold out on Friday.

We got the tree up on my car and away we drove.

The boys spent the better part of a very rainy Sunday decorating the trees. The real tree is in our family room. We have a small artificial tree that we put downstairs. This is strictly the boys tree. They get to decorate how they see fit. We will be stringing popcorn this weekend to finish it off. EE has also asked if we could put Candy Canes on it as we have in the past. I am not sure about this yet as somehow they end up off the tree and being eaten.



To get us in the Christmas spirit, we went to The Festival of Trees this past weekend. There were crafts and goodies for purchase, trees for purchase and a large room filled with fun things to do for the kids. This is a fundraiser for a very large hospital in Baltimore. We didn't get to stay long but it was fun. The amount of people was unbelievable, very hard to get around.

We are officially in Christmas mode. We hope to be done with our Christmas shopping very soon. I will then move on to making my Christmas cookies. This is a tradition that my family looks forward to every year.

Day 2 with the tree and the baby has not messed with it too much.....will it last.