Christmas Tree Tradition

We continued our family tradition that we've done since I was little of cutting down a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.  After meeting up with my family for breakfast at our favorite spot, the Maltby Cafe, we headed to Farmer Brown's Christmas Tree Farm and scouted out the perfect trees to bring home.

 

Once we got the tree home, Ella was fascinated, and I'm sure confused, about why we were bringing a tree into the house!

 Helping get out the Christmas decorations

 Her new favorite game is taking ornaments off the tree, examining them one by one, and putting them in a basket next to the tree...over and over again.  Of course her favorite ornaments are a framed picture of Lily and a little dog on a bell :).  Our decorations are definitely more limited this year, and our tree is a little sparse on the bottom half with ornaments that are unbreakable and safe for Ella to play with!