Friday's Fun...(last Fri 11-29-08)

Now that you are caught up on Thanksgiving ....it's on to the rest of the holiday weekend....Friday was a fun and busy day. It is a tradition in my family to put up our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. The whole family pitched in. This was the first year that all of the kids were really able to help with the decorating. We unpacked about a kajillion boxes...and the decorating began...Allie found a santa hat in one of the first boxes we opened and a good time was had by all (until the fighting started over the hat...ugh!!!)

Macie in the Christmas spirit...

Scott "Ho-Ho-Ho"-ing pretending to be santa "...round little belly, that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly..."
During lunch the skirmishes grew...Holley and Allie had to argue (of course) over who got to sit at what bar stool...I'm glad my camera was handy...

Meme and Poppy unpacking the Christmas tree...glad Poppy still does the heavy lifting, I'm NO help in that area...

Yes, we have an artificial tree....apparently I am (or was as a child) allergic to real ones so I've had an artificial one for as long as I can remember...LOVE THEM!!!

Then we had to untangle all of the ornament hooks...this took a while...

Then we decorated the tree and sang Christmas carols at the top of our lungs while listening to our favorite Christmas CD's.

The final product...pretty good job Browning's!!!!

At this point you are caught up through the end of Friday. I worked on Sat. and the kids did a bunch of playing with friends and with each other...Today (Sun. we had another fun time...more on that to come)...stay tuned....