Trimming the Trees

One holiday tradition we have is to go over to Don's parents house, usually during the Thanksgiving break, and help them decorate their Christmas tree.  It is always fun to hear the stories about the different ornaments and hear about Don when he was a child.  The kids now have their favorite "beautiful" ornaments they hang up at Grammy's house, as well as the ones on our tree. 

This year Luke especially loved the beautiful sparkly glitter light bulb ornaments and Grammy let him pick out a special one to bring home and put on his tree.

We are not as quite on the ball and it usually takes a week or 2 after Thanksgiving to get our tree up to decorate on a family night. 

Luke helps me get everything out.

Jake quickly claimed the front of the
tree as "his spot" for his special ornaments.

 

My heart was tender as I watched Michael put the star on the top of the tree, realizing next year would be his last one home to decorate the tree.  Hard to believe he is almost 17!  Good thing we have up to another 15 years to go with some of our other tree helpers!