It's December 22nd, and it's finally started to feel like Christmas to me. Which is good, since, you know, we've only got three days left before the actual holiday.
(Adelaide clearly practicing for a Christmas Eve reenactment)
(Adelaide clearly practicing for a Christmas Eve reenactment)
We started off Thanksgiving week with a bang. Adelaide came down with her highest fever to date - spiking to 104 and sufficiently worrying both Chris and I.
Thankfully it passed without any major incident, and we're all healthy as can be (for now anyways!)
Like many people do, we typically kick off the holiday season the weekend after Thanksgiving, but things got postponed/rescheduled since we were recuperating from the Great Fever of 2014.
So we had a late start, but our Christmas festivities have been in full swing lately.
We (and by we I mean Chris, all by his lonesome) picked out our little tree (and by little I mean giant, 8 foot pine beauty) at a close quaint spot (i.e. Home Depot). This would normally be a family activity, but instead Chris went by himself and was left to hoist that bad boy on the roof of an SUV BY HIMSELF at the Depot. I'm still not sure how he did it.
And a special bonus - we even got to decorate our tree not once, but TWICE.
As Chris likes to put it, at 10 p.m. on a Monday night our tree decided it was time to lie down for a long winters nap in the middle of our living room.
There were Ornaments everywhere.
And notice the crazy sideways ribbon.
And now our tree is missing a huge chunk out of the side where it landed, but no matter.
Due to Chris's good work (as seen above), the tree stands again!
It's like the resurrection, Christmas tree version.
We also took a little trip to visit Santa.
And as soon as she saw Santa she began clinging onto Chris for dear life.
Sooooo, we compromised. There were no tears, so we considered this a win.
We've even made our salt dough ornaments.
Do I get bonus points for having this done before New Years?
(I was a little late to the game last year)
And Lexi even got into the Christmas spirit (thanks to Nana)!
Of course this lasted all of five minutes.
As you can see, it's been a crazy beautiful season.
Thankfully it's been full of people we love and lots of fun activity.
From our family to you...
We hope that your holidays are bright
...And your tree stays upright.
With Love,
The Schroeders
