O Christmas Tree!

It's officially Christmas-time at the Poelstra house as the tree is up!  Each year it is always exciting to decorate the house, especially the tree, for Christmas!  And each year the excitement of the kids seems to grow as they can anticipate the season so much more!  When we told the kids this afternoon that we would decorate the tree after dinner they were so excited!!

Here they are, post bath/shower and ready to put the ornaments on the tree!

Shane putting on an ornament.  I will admit that I cannot remember if he decorated the tree last year, but I think that this was the first time he helped decorate it!

Showing off her Michigan Football ornament!  I will venture a guess that our tree is the only one in Ventura that has such an ornament!!  It was a fun evening, capped off with a mug of hot chocolate and the arrival of our Elf on the Shelf!  We couldn't remember what we named him last year, so we decided on the name Freddie, and I wrote it down, so we will not have this issue in years to come!  It is always great to have the motivation of behaving in order to impress Santa's Elf, even if it is just for a month!

This picture is from this afternoon.  Recently, Shane has decided to try and scare us by being a monster.  And this is monster scary face!  He can be quite ferocious!!