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| Shockingly cold Saturday. Noah is watching it snow for the first time in his life!!! |
On a freezing December Saturday, we got the house looking a little more festive. Noah sat outside with me (Dana) while I strung one little strand of old fashioned lightbulbs across our porch. I also tucked evergreens into our grapevine wreath on the door (instead of buying a wreath). I LOVE to repurpose things! It's so much less expensive and always comes out looking creative. (I first learned this with our wedding plans when I realized that anything marketed for weddings is overpriced. Turns out, holidays are the same way.) So we had some unique ...er, occasionally a-traditional items. But I figure we're in the process of creating our own traditions anyway.
The snow started in the early afternoon. So beautiful. I took Noah straight to the window and then to the porch for front row seats on his first snow! It was so much fun. Cookies were baked. Christmas music blasted all afternoon. Noah and I danced (well, I danced. Noah bounced) in the warmth of the house while the snow covered everything outside.
That evening, we forged the snow and went to a Christmas festival at the local plant store/tree nursery that we love. They had Santa (yes, he scared Noah) and cookies, tons of gorgeous Christmas trees, and a miraculously marked down (75%off!) Christmas tree that we had delivered to our house that night.
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| Hmm...I wanna say it looked better than this -- like, I straightened out some of the branches...but now I can't remember and I know that the wind really did a number on those little sprigs after a while. Anyway, I thought it was festive. |
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| Noah sitting under a 20ft Christmas tree at a local tree nursery. |
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| All of us at the same nursery, next to a different tree. |
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| And he's done. It was bedtime after a looong day of fun. |
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