Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

Our Christmas tree is up! Complete with Filipino parol (the star to the right of the tree). It was great to have Elyse with us when we went shopping for the tree, and especially for the decorating part afterwards (we miss you, Ninang!). Veronica put a lot of non-breakable ornaments on the bottom branches, including the 3 special ornaments we've bought for each of the Christmases she's had. Veronica has been very good with the tree and is very very careful when she gets near it. Such a good girl!

This year we got quite a large tree - the largest we've ever had at 8 feet! You can see the star is basically touching the ceiling. It's so tall that Adrian had to get the ladder out of the shed to reach the top, and he could just barely get that star up there. I must say, New England is pretty great for getting an awesome tree for not a lot of money.

It was SO NICE to be able to bring the tree into the living room through the new back door, rather than dropping needles from the front door through the entire depth of the house. Thanks again, Dad, for helping Adrian put the new back door in! The back door has been so useful, I can't even begin to count the number of times it's been used.

More Christmas-y photos to come. I just wanted to put this photo on the blog right away.