O' Christmas TREE!

What fun Christmas is!!!

We picked Ella up from school today and went to buy our Christmas tree. This made me soooo happy because I am going to my parent's house in a couple of weeks and I wanted to enjoy my tree as long as possible before we go. It just seems like Christmas flies right by. So this time I am prepared and ready to soak up every minute!

Ella made getting a tree so much fun. She loved looking at all of them and running around the tree farm like crazy!

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is going to the same tree farm every year to pick our tree. They have some already cut or you can choose one and cut it down. We have always like some of the pre-cut better, but I think next year we will cut one down just for fun with the kiddos.

Here are some comparison pics:
Year One at Wilson's Tree Farm
Year Two.

And of course, this year. Year Three!

Miss Ella. The Diva, Drama Queen, Princess. Yep, she just had to wear her glasses as she shopped for the perfect tree. Although, I must admit, it WAS really bright out. I wore mine the whole time, too. :)

Noah was so happy to get his first Christmas Tree!

They gave Ella a little Christmas Tree coloring book which she thought was pretty awesome!

Trying to decide which tree is "the one". Saw some different ones, like this one below that had a white coloring to it. Ella enjoyed getting to run around between all of the trees and then trying to find us again!
Loaded up and ready to go!
And now we're ready to decorate!

This little bird used to go in Randy's tree when he was a kid. He says it was always one of his favorite things to add to the tree. He's laughing at me for making him take a pic while he does it. But I think it's special! ;)

Ella got to add the star on top. She liked getting to reach up high!

While we were decorating and remember each ornament, I thought it would be cool to share some with you. While I was waiting on pics to load, I was catching up on some friends blogs. I saw that my friend Sheila had planned something similar! Wow, great minds think alike :))

She is going to be doing hers one by one, but I am just going to show you a few of our special ones in this post only.

Hope you enjoy!

This is one of my very favorites. Some great friends from back home in Florida gave me this the Christmas that Randy and I were engaged.
Then once we were married and living here in NC, we were given this ornament below. A couple that we are friends with wrapped this ornament and gave it to us our first Christmas. They chose it out of their own collection to pass onto us to help us to build a collection of our own. It was one of the most thoughtful things ever!! They'll be moving before long, but we will always think of them this time of year!

Here's one that Randy made when he was little. It's so cute!!

Here's one of me in my cemented hair, cheer leading days. Always makes me laugh.

LOVE this one from the Christmas I was pregnant with Ella.

Not an ornament, but still something cute that Randy made!

Ella's First Christmas. Precious.
This was one of my favorites that my parents got me when I was younger. I always liked to collect angel ornaments. A year or two before I got married, I pulled this one out of the box and her hands had fallen off!! Maybe from the heat in the attic? Who knows, but I just couldn't throw her away. So she still hangs in the tree, hand-less. LOL
Ella made this angel last year. The body is from her feet and the wings were from her hands. So sweet.

My mom got us this one last year. Ella says, "There we are, riding in our car!"

This one is so special to me. I love collecting the "Willow Tree" figurines. When I saw the one like this with the mother holding her bigger baby, I just had to have it. It captures so perfectly the way it feels to hold your baby when they aren't so little anymore. Anyways, Randy also found out they had it in an ornament form. Since we buy each other an ornament each year, he chose this one for me. I love it so much!

It's called "Hold Close That Which We Hold Dear"


Well, I don't know about your house, but ours is "Beginning to look alot like Christmas"