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Lainey gets a better view, as she chooses her first Christmas tree.

Seems like the end of Thanksgiving and the beginning of Christmas happens as quickly as flipping a light switch.  Must have something to do with the day-after-Thanksgiving Christmas shopping that begins in the wee morning hours.  I did pretty well this year! 

She found it…this is THE one. 

Our home is about 90% decorated, with the rest of it to be finished this coming weekend.  We enjoyed this year even more than previous ones, given we’re blessed to share Lainey’s first Christmas with her. 

Doesn’t everyone wear flip flops when they buy a Christmas tree?  It was around 75 degrees last Saturday. 

We started the assembly line to get all of the decorations out of the closet under the stairs…Lainey got the hang of it quickly. 

EJ decides Lainey needs some decorating, too. 

We have a tradition with the kids, of letting them hang their own 1st Christmas ornaments.  I ordered Lainey’s, and it had not arrived in time for tree decorating.  So, she hung her ornament from last year, with one of her referral pictures in it.

She understood that the baby in the picture was her, and now asks (signing “Lainey”) to see her ornament on the tree. 

The other kids LOVE seeing their ornaments each year, and we inevitably talk about what cute babies they were. 

So begins the Christmas season…we have lots of fun things coming up, and I might just blog about some of them.  Who am I kidding, I’ll be boring you with every last detail.  Buckle up, there’s only 3 weeks to go!