12 Days of the Reeders' Christmas

This year, I'm going to share some of our favorite holiday happenings/traditions as they happen rather than waiting until after Christmas (and then not actually finding the time to do it before March, let's be honest.) While these aren't necessarily happening same-day, they are some of the fun things we've done with the kids this holiday season!

Day One: Decorating the Tree

Pulling out the Christmas tree is the official start to the season, if you ask me. This was something my family always did a week or 2 before Thanksgiving (when you have 6 trees, you kinda have to get a jump start!) I'm always very eager to get ours up mid-November, but this year it had to wait. We did some painting & redecorating the week of Thanksgiving, taking advantage of the husband's vacation days, so the tree had to wait. It finally went up the weekend after Thanksgiving & the big kids could not have been more excited! Brooke & Joe both have quite a collection of ornaments already that they are so proud of. They excitedly hung each one in a special spot, all of which were on the bottom 1/3 of the tree (and all of Joe's were on the same 2 branches.) Jack has 1 ornament so far and helped Daddy hang it, gazing at all the shining lights, completely clueless as to what was going on. Once they were all done and in bed, Mom & Dad put up our ornaments and rearranged their work a little bit. We all absolutely love how it turned out!

(Jack is getting a bucket to catch all of his drool for Christmas...)