Christmas Tree and Gingerbread!

Today we got our Christmas Tree! We went to St. John Vianny Church. They sell the nicest trees and it helps fund the mission trips.  It is a win win, plus it is close to the house.

Inspecting the trees.

It is so hard to choose!  Which one should we get?

Loading the chosen tree into the car. We always take two cars. One for the tree and one for Lon

Mark has been working out! Lifted up that tree like it was a match stick!

The tree has reached the deck!

Our wonderful tree stand has a nail like thingy (technical term) in the center, so we drill a bit out of the tree so it will sit better in the stand. Mark was just holding the drill. Lon was actually operating it.  Lon was a little nervous about doing it at first, but then he was all over it. POWER TOOLS ROCK!

The tree is up! The Angel is on top, I need to make another one that looks a little better, the lights and garland are on. It is coming along
At this point I took a break and put the snowball lights on the garland outside. (I need to remember I am sensitive to spruce, and when putting up the lights I need to wear gloves and long sleeves. My hands and forearms are swollen, itchy and they hurt. Ew.)

Lon is so excited! He is unpacking the ornaments. He wants to put some of them on, and some of them he wants to play with! They are all SO COOL MOM!

A little more ornaments on the tree. You can see the snowball lights now outside too! Yes, I do know the tree lists a little bit.  It adds charm. We got the new box of luminarios for outside today. I will have to put those up during a break in the downpour.  

We took another break for dinner. After dinner I promised Lon we would decorate the gingerbread ski chalet. We found it at Trader Joe's.  After last year's disaster in Gingertown, I decided to skip the whole putting it together with icing. I used hot glue to put the house together, then just used the icing to hold the decorations on. It works much nicer. It is faster, neater and much less frustrating. Since it is a kit and we are not going to eat it anyway, it does not matter!  Lon only likes the decorating part. It was fun. Now we are going to go cuddle and watch Frosty the Snowman!