It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!!!

Last weekend, Christmas preparations were in full swing at the Barton household! Nate promised me a Christmas weekend and he came through like a champ! On Saturday, we had a babysitter all day while we played Santa!! I LOVE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!! Nate was a trooper and lasted until about 3 that afternoon! What a guy!!!
After church on Sunday, we loaded up the kids and it was off to get our Christmas trees! That's right trees - Nate finally agreed to two trees! I was finally going to get a family one and a decorative one! What did I tell you - what a guy!!!

Eating a quick lunch before the tree hunt!

We ventured to a local tree farm on the island and set off for the perfect Christmas Tree! As soon as we got our saw, Connor took off saying he knew where our tree was and he was persistent (I wonder who he gets that from???). Well what do you know....he lead us to the perfect tree - he later told us he saw it out his window as we drove in! About thirty feet away we found our other tree - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

Our handy man took the saw and started chopping away.... Watch out for that tree Daddy!!

Nate was more successful at the second tree! Connor was quick to give his dad credit as he said, "Good job Daddy! The tree didn't fall on you this time!!"

As soon as they were cut it was off to the car....

Later that night, with Christmas music in the background, we decorated our family tree downstairs! They had gotten a hold of the tree upstairs with the decorations and decorated it Connor and Cooper style - all decorations on the bottom branches!

Cooper was all about decorating the tree downstairs too -the bottom part!

Connor found the tree for his room and was more interested in decorating that one....

It is so much fun to pull out the ornaments and be reminded of what point in your life that they came from! One of my favorite ornaments is from my favorite first grade teacher - yes that was a long time ago! Connor found his ornament that we had painted his hands on when he was seven months old - how fast they grow!

What better way to end the night after decorating our tree - but with hot chocolate and chocolate chip pumpkin cookies - YUM YUM!!! Thanks boyz for the beautiful tree downstairs!

Now all that is left to do is wait for our favorite guy in red.......