a lil tree

The girls and hubby picked out a tree while i was at a midwifery workshop.  It's a precious little one. 

Sometimes the bear is a huge fan of takings pics and other times (like in this pic), not so much.

We've gotten live trees in the past but this year, they chose to get a cut one.  It's decorated with ornaments from each year of our family's life together and quite a few from my childhood.  I have a handful of ornaments from 1985; must have been a good year for me.

 

As embarrassing as this is, the girls are enthralled by Shrek The Halls.  It's a book that I got when E had a huge crush on Shrek from watching all 3 movies in Bali while I was busy having morning sickness and being horizontal on the floor beside her.  She laughed hysterically at the movies.  It's been a while since she saw them and the Bear doesn't really watch movies before getting bored and bouncing around.  But, this book makes them giggle still.

This is usually our nature table.  Not a whole lot of nature perhaps right now.  We light a small candle with each week of advent.