It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

There's lots to catch up on our blog, but here's a quickie update. It's tradition for us to get our tree the week of Thanksgiving so when we got home from Bend, Oregon, the first order of business was to start decorating for Christmas!

Evie insisted on having lights on the house this year and Scott obliged by stringing lights on the tree outside since we didn't want to deal with getting up on an icy roof. Here's Scott, hard at work:

Meanwhile, the girls were inside decorating the tree. I had to feed Nora so Evie had a good 20 minutes of decorating on her own, which is where you can see a great big cluster of ornaments in the left side there. I actually think that corner looks the best - she has quite the artistic eye! I promised her that this holiday shopping season, I'd be on the lookout for more ornaments to add to our tree.

She's very proud of her tree!

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