December 5 &6, 2010

Sunday 5~~~~~We were out doing some Christmas shopping today when we got a call from the West Children that they were on their way home with their Christmas tree and they wanted to know if we wanted to come over and help trim the tree. We have done that for the last few years and it is a lot of fun. I always get the job of putting the lights on the tree while Tress gets the ornaments out of their boxes and ready for Blaize and Bodie to hang. All of my children have ornaments from their parents, grandma's and even great grandma. Tress keeps hers wrapped in tissue paper and in coffee cans to really protect them, the kids aren't allowed to touch them. I bought Bodie and Blaize each a new ornament to hang on the tree and by the time we finished, they were both tired, crabby and hungry. Kent and I started for home stopping to pick up some Chinese food to take home and eat while we watched a movie we had taped. Monday 6~~~~We set up our Christmas tree today and we made a large pot of spaghetti because Bodie and Blaize are coming over tonight to help us trim our tree. While I finished up making a salad and French bread Tress and Kent did homework with the kids. After we ate, the grand kids and myself trimmed the tree, of course there were a few arguments over where to hang things as both of them wanted to hang things in the same spot. Pretty soon Bodie got bored with the job and Blaize did a marvelous job of finishing up the tree. She had so much patience hanging all the things I had in the box, everyone has commented on how beautiful our tree was this year and they can hardly believe it when I tell them that Blaize a 5 year old did most of it by herself. After the tree wasd trimmed, we had dessert and we watched a Christmas show that was on TV before the kids had to go home.