Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Day We Decorated Mini Trees

Kate Brooke & Emily - mini trees 11-29-11eOne of our favorite traditions is the annual decorating of the mini-trees.  The girls love to decorate and it is so nice for them to have their own space to create.  They love all the little ornaments and spend lots of time making sure they get their trees just right. 

 

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Emily didn’t really focus on getting her tree decorated “just right.”  She was far too enamored with the coolness of the whole activity.  She spent most of her time putting on one or two ornaments over and over and preferred to just have them hanging from her fingers.  She loved her tree though as evidenced by the number of times she hugged and kissed it.

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The girls love looking at the pictures of them with their trees from year’s past, so they posed and asked me to take lots of pictures that they wanted to recreate.  The also wanted pictures of their new ornament.  Over the years I have given them little ornaments with their names – this year, they got a cute little snowman that was also a bell.  Emily was overwhelmed by it’s awesomeness.

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Once their trees were decorated, we moved them up to their rooms.  Emily redecorates hers about every 15 minutes but Katelyn and Brooke’s tree is just out of her reach, That makes us all happy.

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2 comments:

melissa walker said...

Your girls are so cute--and you are so good at documenting all the fun things you do together. I should get motivated and follow your example!

Rachel said...

What a fun idea! Those mini trees are adorable! Are they real or fake? Rylynn has a tree and decorations on her Christmas list this year:)