Since we will be going out of town soon, we decided to get our tree and put it up early.
After a slight problem with a leaky tree stand, which put the tree on vacation out on our front porch for a few days (klassy, I know) , we picked up a new tree stand.
We let the kids decorate the tree this year. Handing out as many ornaments as the would put on the tree, surprisingly they got tired of it before we ran out of ornaments.

Antonio has become a fantastic decorator. Julia is still figuring it all out, and after one attempt at hanging each ornament, she'd just throw it at the tree. I guess she thought it would stick or something.

Here's the tree, up in the house, and semi-decorated



Julia was going to be in the picture, but she ran off...