We talked to our girls very specifically before the Christmas season started this year about our Christmas plans here in the mountains. We wanted to make the most of our time this Christmas season in the mountains and focus on Jesus's birth. We also wanted to make sure we kept the girls' favorite Christmas traditions. Their list was actually pretty short. One of the first things on their list to start off the Christmas season was to go and cut a real Christmas tree to decorate. We have gone to the same Christmas tree farm, Ralph's, for the past 8 or 9 years. Even when we lived in Richmond, it was the Christmas tree farm we went to for getting our Christmas tree. We loved living just a few minutes away from our favorite place to get our Christmas tree the past few years!
This year, we nicknamed our tree. Meet "Frank the Fraser". This tree was the 3rd tree we looked at yhis year. The girls picked really quickly this year and were all ready to head back to decorate.
The girls did so well.
The big girls even helped put on the lights and garland this year.
Everyone had a favorite ornament this year.
Bethany informed me that this was Bitty ' s little ornament and she carried in her hand for quite awhile before she would hang it on the tree.
This big girl was tons of help decorating the tree this year.
Bekah loved hanging her ornament from the Sangers.
Brent and the girls were getting ready to hang our last family ornament on the tree.
We enjoyed every bit of decorating our tree this year. When we went to another Christmas event this year, we sang the song "O Christmas Tree." I know the first verse very well, but the song leader also has us sing verse 4. What a great reminder as we enjoyed decorating our tree of God's love and faithfulness towards us.
"O Christmas Tree "
"O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree
How richly God has decked thee,
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
How richly God has decked thee.
Thought bidst us true and faithful be
and trust in God unchangingly.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree
How richly God has decked thee!"
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