deck the halls

here's a few tree decorating pictures. and a few setting up the nativity pictures. we make sure to maybe a little bit try and remember the reason for the season by making the nativity the first decoration that goes up. and a few first eggnog of the season pictures. our boy loves him some eggnog. probably because it's delicious. sadly, heath will have to wait until next year to know the glory of eggnog. we won't spend too much time feeling sad about that, since it's the most wonderful time of the year!

tannenbaum, oh tannenbaum

it was the rainiest of rainy days on the friday after thanksgiving, so we went tree shopping on saturday. it was bitter cold and heath really could not even believe we had dragged him out into this weather. we went to the yakima fruit market because we really just didn't have the motivation to cut down our own tree this year... even though there are some cutesie tree farms pretty darn close. we got a real goodie though and it was the easiest to pick out. i will say, christmas trees are kind of pricey for something that's dead and sits in your house for a month, you know? oh well, it's not like i would ever not get one. expensive dead trees for life!

flashback!

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how lovely are your branches

once we had a christmas tree, we went extra crazy and decided to decorate it. maybe that was the plan all along. beckett had his annual first eggnog drink (man, he really loves eggnog) and we took lots of cute pictures. here they are. as a side note... i have no idea why i thought it was totally fine that beckett has no pants on. pregnancy brain?