O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum!

Daddy and Kimball and Brandon setting up the tree. Brandon was bringing branches to Mike, as was Kimball! Such great helpers... We really wanted to get a real tree, especially seeing how we were invited by our wonderful neighbors, the Bakers, to go cut down a tree with them. You know how it goes in college... tight budget. Our tree is getting flimsy after years of use from Mike's parents and now us, we will need a new one after this year.
Mommy got in on the Christmas tree action after dinner was in the oven...
Kimball put the tree on the star, but it fell off...
So mommy helped him out and got it back up there...
And finally, the finished masterpiece!

I am skipping an important Holiday, I know! We did celebrate Thanksgiving, and had a wonderful vacation at my brother's house in Rexburg (Thanks Corey and Daymi!), but I forgot my camera. Therefore I have no documentation of our Holidays and am skipping on to Christmas (perhaps I'll post in a week or so, when I get the pics from Daymi that we took on her camera). We decorated our tree and home today with our decorations, a small collection from our almost four years of marriage. I don't know if I can take a month of trying to keep Brandon away from the tree! Not even 10 minutes after we had finished the tree, he had already pulled down 4 decorations, climbed all around it, pulled at the tree skirt, and lost an ornament hook! His middle name should be changed to trouble...

Anyways, our tradition is to buy one new tree decoration each year. We are trying to think of a good decoration for this year, any good ideas on where to look for unique tree decorations around the Pocatello/Southeast Idaho area?