Well here it is the New Year and I'm finally getting around to posting a Christmas blog! Ridiculous! I didn't get any pictures of our naked tree but that's probably best because my sister said it looked like a Charlie Brown tree. Oh well... I loved it and Matt was excited to have our very own. I was too but a little worried about leaving it naked. I started getting excited for Christmas in like October because I knew we didn't have many ornaments and I didn't want to try to pay for decorations and presents all in the month of December. I asked Matt when we could start putting up Christmas decorations. He teased me "Christmas Eve and take them down the day after." However like I mentioned in a previous blog we went the Saturday after Thanksgiving to get a Christmas tree. I don't think it was a full week before Matt asked when we could put up the Christmas tree. And bless his heart he had to ask more than once.
What tree is complete without a STAR!
I was so happy when our star turned out. I wanted a Western themed tree but had the hardest time finding a star that fit the bill. I had seen these barn stars that I feel in love with at a local department store and thought about just wiring them together with lights between them but I wasn't sure how to then attach it to the tree. The night we picked up our decorations, I saw this star and thought maybe I could settle for just it. Matt thought that the barn stars were about the same size as the clear plastic stars that originally adorned this star. He was right! It worked. And Bonus the barn stars were like 60% off!!! Can't beat that!
These were some of our ornaments! I was grateful for leftover fabric scraps that I've saved from about a million finished and unfinished projects (an old trick I learned from Mom). The rest were glass balls.
We probably took seven or eight pictures trying to get one with us and the tree. We have a few of us and the tree but one or both of us is not looking a the camera or smiling in any of them. Besides I like this picture.
Christmas between three families can be a bit of a zoo. We had a wonderful dinner with the Wheelers on Tuesday and with the Alders on Christmas Eve but I forgot the camera for both. Bummer!!!
Christmas morning...
We spent Christmas Eve night with the Johnsons. There were three VERY, VERY, VERY excited little boys who could barely stand to go to bed and wait for Santa. Here are SEVERAL Christmas pictures and our Christmas story...
Logan could not be torn from his train for several hours, not even to open his other presents from Santa. (Heaven knows Santa must have appreciated his interest. As is must have taken the Elves a while to assemble his train.)
Baby Nana! She's such a doll and what a priceless picture(Thanks to Matt's camera skills... I can't take credit for half these pictures. He's the master mind and I'm still learning how to use the darn thing.) Baby Nana is just young enough to not want to get far from her mom without sounding an alarm but Grandpa Johnson has her captive and enjoying every minute of those three little boys.
A scooter for Hunter.
This picture was a half second behind the huge grin as Baby Nana open her Cabbage Patch look-a-like. It was definitely her favorite.
Surely you can't forget sweet Grandma Betty, who got a wonderful REAL LIFE FAIRYTALE of her and Grandpa Buck's love story. She was so pleased. When I helped her pick up her mailbox this week she was still raving about how much she loved it.
Even after three, yup that's THREE invitations for breakfast these boys still couldn't be torn from their toys. But we all have enjoyed movies with Dad's new surround sound system.
Shooting on Christmas Day, I have been told is a Johnson family tradition and since Matt got ammunition from Santa we had to go. Pity we left it at the house so we will have to go again.
I loved the color in this picture. Oh yeah and the man in it. He's one of the many reason my husband is the wonderful man he is...he's a very BIG REASON Matt is the way he is. It was a beautiful sunset but man alive it was cold but maybe you can't see that from my rosy cheeks from the picture below.
I teased Bryce about being paparazzi for these next few shots but the camera got bumped to multi-shots. However it turned out to be some cool shots of Tylor's fancy western pistol slingin'!
And last but not least my wonderful husband! Schooling us all with at a clay trap shoot. Five targets. Five shots. I didn't hit a single one and neither did Bryce. I think Dad hit three and Ty hit one. But Matt hit a whopping four! Nice work, Babe!
Have you ever watched a movie and wondered what the gag reel would feature...
The Gag Reel...
Just so you know this is what happens to the Christmas tree when you leave a bored house wife with an axe, a wood burning stove, and a naked tree.
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