Trimming the Tree

So the Wednesday before thanksgiving, Thomas and I are done with work (outside the home that is)...and Hunter is already busting our tails to get the tree and it's entourage down from the attic. He had to wait a while. At least until Haley had gone to bed for the night. Hunter and Thomas put the tree up. It's quite the pain in the ... as you have to spread the branches and assemble one branch at a time from the bottom up. By 10:30pm we told Hunter we would put the lights on Thursday morning. He was pretty upset since he thought we would finish all the tree decorating and outdoor lights that night. So Thanksgiving morning we put the lights on the tree while we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV. We hadn't really thought about it, but Hunter had never seen a parade. He didn't even know what a parade was! Terrible parents...I know! We've always been on the run to someones house or busy cooking and preparing for guest. This year was so nice. Low key, nothing at our house...not much to cook. So we got the lights on just in time to head out for our Thanksgiving feast at Aunt Diane's house. We had fun with our cousins. They may not have enjoyed us too much as Hunter told them (all Aggies) "It's not a good day to be an Aggie!" Never the less we had fun. Each holiday we realize there are more and more babies in the family. Pretty soon the little people will rule the roost! They kind of already do. So Friday we got the tree finished after a day of horses and four wheelers at Grandmommy's house. Finally last night we got all of the outside lights up. For those of you who don't know how obnoxious we are...we have a lit up longhorn pulling Santa's sleigh in our yard with a lit Texas sign. Hunter loves his Christmas Bevo. He now wants to go out and feed Bevo every morning and evening and let him in and out of his (pretend) barn. He looks out the window and checks on him a lot because one year he looked out there and found Bevo upside down (one of those Aggie cousins). The rest of you better get your lights up because Hunter's already asking to go out looking at Christmas lights in the car. He doesn't understand why there are not many up yet. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope you all are enjoying as many singing Christmas toys (Rudolph's, singing sleighs, jingle bells, talking nativity scenes- thanks Grandmommy, barking singing dogs and lambs- thanks Joanna)as we are!