It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This is by far the best Christmas season I’ve had in years. I’m loving being here with all of my family. It’s just… awesome.

I haven’t had a Christmas tree, nor helped put one up, in several years. So this year, it was thrilling for me to put up not one, not two, but three Christmas trees!

First, there’s mom’s:

Please forgive the poor quality – I took it with my cell phone. And with that kind of light in the background, there wasn’t a whole lot I could do.

We had a good time putting up this “Charlie Brown” tree (that’s what I call it – it’s scrawny!). She had kept all of the ornaments from my childhood. We went through them all – I got to keep about half of them and the other half we put on her tree. How nice it was to reminisce about the best Christmases we ever had.

Then we went to my Granny’s house to put up her tree.

Two years ago was the first (and only) time she put up this tree. I like it better this year than I did when she had the professionals put it up for her.

And lastly… here’s the one at our house. Covered in remnants of my childhood. My stepdad actually got choked up while we were decorating this afternoon (which of course, made me a little teary eyed myself).

I’m loving Christmas this year.