O Christmas Tree

 I think this is the first time in my life I have ever decorated a Christmas tree on Thanksgiving day. Noni always said we had to wait until at least the day after Thanksgiving so I have followed suit...except this year she put her tree up weeks before Thanksgiving, haha. We knew we wouldn't have any other chance to do it on our busy Thanksgiving break so we put it up on Thanksgiving night. 

Another first...we didn't have a single broken ornament! Mostly because we didn't put up any that were overly breakable. I've always heard that cats are really bad about knocking over Christmas trees. Sure enough within minutes of bringing our fake tree into the house Taco climbed to the very top section! We pulled him down and he went right back up! We normally tie the tree to a nail in the wall, but this year T put in three eyehooks and we used our usual string PLUS two small wires to secure the tree! It's not going anywhere. Haha.

We made our hot cocoa, put on our Santa hats and Christmas music and got busy trimming the tree!

 

 

Daddy made sure no breakable ornaments got put on by little fingers. 

 My funny Peanut.

 

 

 

 

 

Lou got into the decorating this year, and the undecorating and redecorating in the days following. :P

 

 

Peanut got the distinction of putting the star on top this year.

And it all turned out as beautiful as ever! Or should I say Bootiful. Haha.

 

 

I think we are going to have to get a second tree one of these days. This isn't even half our ornaments. 

We grabbed a family picture before cleaning up for the night.

 

 

And then a more accurate family picture. Haha. But Queso is the best part of it. He cracked me up when I looked at it later.  

I'm glad there are still many Christmas traditions that couldn't get Covid-cancelled!