Flashback Friday (not on Friday): Getting our Christmas Tree-Then & Now

I LOVE getting ready for Christmas - all the decorations and Christmas lights and fun stuff you get to put out ... love it. (Now, taking it down and getting the house back together one month later, that's another thing ... ) So last year for Lily Kate's first Christmas, I knew that I wanted to get a "real" tree. One that smelled good and we got to go out in the cold and pick out - I loved it!


We were "in between" cars last year when we went to get out tree - Stephen had just sold his truck and my SUV had just been wrecked so, Stephen bought this hunter green Buick real cheap for us to drive until we got different vehicles. So, this was the only vehicle we had to put the tree on .... And I thought it was the funniest thing ever! I'm sure when Lily Kate gets older she will be so embarassed of these pictures but I loved it. I remember on the way home I kept on tell Stephen, "I hope this tree falls off the top of this car in the middle of the road because that would just make this night even funnier! I also love how the color of the tree & the color of the car is the same. Great memories!!

We got our tree in - yay!!

Posing in front of her tree in her room

Well ... we went last Thursday night to the same place to get our "real" tree again this year. I was, once again, so excited!! I couldn't wait to take pictures like we did last year and compare them and hopefully make it an annual event for our family. But, when I got home and started comparing them to last year's pictures I couldn't help but get tears in my eyes. I can't believe how much Lily Kate has changed and how I feel like we were just getting ready to celebrate her first Christmas, and here we are getting ready for her second Christmas.

Yay- another year, another tree :) .... and yes, I have the same scarf from last year-didn't plan it but thought it was funny!

trying to get her to laugh for the camera

me & my little Priss Pot

She is DEFIANTLY a daddy's girl!

Our tree is in the house!!

Someone did NOT want their picture in front of their tree

Someone was VERY unhappy with their Mommy :)



I'm looking forward to sharing many more Christmases with this sweet, little girl of mine - but most of all helping her realize the TRUE meaning of Christmas!!