Our Christmas tree

We decided to hold off on getting our tree this year, since we don't want to fight with Audrey for four weeks. But we still want to get one while the getting is good, and early enough to enjoy it. So we think we're going this Saturday. Yea!

In the meantime, though, I am itching to decorate a tree and wrap gifts. So I decided to replace our Thanksgiving tree

with a paper Christmas tree. The original concept included decorating the "boughs" with our Christmas cards, but now there's no room for that.

So here is how Isaac and I spent yesterday afternoon:




If you need to see more detail, just click on the pictures for a full-size view.

Isaac placed the stars and the green lights, and some of the ornaments. And he thinks those are real presents, all for him, that he'll get to open Saturday at the church Christmas party.