2nd Christmas! Decorating Fun

Lovely family picture!

We spent most of the day Saturday decorating for Christmas, Aria had a blast! Dana found all the dead lights in the many strings of lights we inherited when her parents moved, and I put together the tree and got the ornaments ready for Aria. While Aria napped in the morning, I ran out and picked up our new area rug, runner, and kitchen mat (all cut from the same carpet). but abbey carpet had rounded the wrong corners of the kitchen mat... I digress! I'll cover that in the post about the kitchen/family room being finished.

So I start decorating the Christmas tree by putting the most important ornaments up:

Hallmark Star Trek ornaments!!!

They'd been in my brother's attic for some time, and now they get to be on display every year! kudos to Dana for not putting up a stink like i thought she would. she might change her mind after hearing Mr. Spock wish us happy holidays and rapping about the shuttlecraft (I like to hit the button real fast so he sounds like max headroom). I'm good like that :-o

on to the cuteness!Aria definitely found the tree more interesting than last year when she was only 2 months old. Smart parents that we are, we knew that anything 3 feet and lower would just get pulled off, so we let Aria play with the little stuffed bear and dog ornaments until we were done decorating the top 2/3s of the tree. :-)

then we tried to teach her to place the bears on the tree with some success.

Problem was that she would lay the bear on a branch or watch us hang the bear and then yank him off and go running away! then we took some family photos, and after more bear snatching and running away, our family photo session turned into what you saw at the beginning of the post. :-) she was just hungry and tired, that's all.

"Shuttlecraft to Enterprise, Shuttlecraft to Enterprise. Spock here.
Happy Holidays. Live long, and Prosper."