loving christmas.

with this first week of december down i'm feeling pretty good about my christmas preparations. we got back from our thanksgiving break on sunday and i guess i felt like i was already behind on christmas because i finished putting all my decorations up, started christmas shopping and that night went with friends to get a christmas tree. in our 4 years of celebrating christmas together, travis and i have never had our own christmas tree. since we will be staying here in boston this year i insisted that we have a tree. so, i did some research trying to find the best christmas tree farm to buy a tree and soon figured out how city people buy their trees: home depot. we actually found a great first tree for our little home among a great selection of mostly 5-6 ft trees. i guess there isn't much demand for the big 8+ ft trees in small apartments.


so we had fun picking out our own tree and i spent the next couple days decorating. i also finished shopping for calvin and will probably be done this week with everyone else. it feels good to be almost done with that so that i can enjoy the rest of december since the closer we get to christmas the bigger my belly gets and the more uncomfortable and tired i will be. so, with that, a list of other things i am especially loving about christmas 2008. and pictures, too.

• christmas music (mariah carey, josh groban, a few good mixes and a little barbara streisand...don't knock it until you hear it)
• my decorated house
• planning christmas parties, events and festivities
• baking
• and obviously, my very first christmas tree

  landen and travis looked pretty tough getting our trees

  

  this is how sophie and calvin felt about it

  

yes, i already have presents wrapped. i've decided that is the best hiding place when you don't have much extra storage space!