O Christmas Tree

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A few weeks ago, a few fellow bloggers posted about their Christmas trees. I loved reading about their Christmas tree memories and traditions that went along with them. Although I wanted to post about our Christmas tree, I had yet to buy one and decorate it. About a week ago we finally bought and decorated our Christmas tree. As I've probably mentioned before, we didn't bring any Christmas decorations with us to England, which I'm kicking myself for. Luckily we have great neighbors who have kindly let us borrow some of theirs. We are very grateful for their willingness to share. Clark and I went to Longacres on Saturday, December 8 and bought our little tree (and I do mean little). We didn't want to spend a lot of money on something we wouldn't be able to keep, so we bought a real tree. It is actually potted, so I'm thinking we'll try to give it to someone when Christmas is over. It's about three feet high and cost 20 pounds ($40). Here it is in all it's glory.



The lights and the red and gold ornaments are the ones that our neighbors gave us. Our tree is so small that we didn't get to use too many of them, but I thought they turned out just right.

Kimball and Sammy in front of our tree.

Our tree from a distance. Try not to be too distracted by our beautiful orange leather couches. Just remember, it is a rental. No offense to those of you who have chosen to have orange leather couches in your own home.

While my mom was here visiting we went to Harrods for a little shopping. For those of you who don't know, Harrods is one of the biggest, well-known, and most expensive department stores in the world. It is located in London, and my mom and I had a great time there. You could spend hours and hours there and still not get to every department. The store really is huge and you need a map of the store just to find your way around. My mom and I stuck to the Christmas section and the gift shop. I wanted to buy some Christmas items that would remind us of our time here in England. As a Christmas tradition, I want to buy each of my kids a new Christmas ornament each year to add to our tree. So for this year I bought each member of our family a Christmas ornament from Harrods. They represent our time here in England. Here they are.

The double-decker bus ornament belongs to Sammy.


Kimball chose to have the guard bear.

Addilyn has the UK flag, since it is her birthplace.

Mom has the Harrod's Bear.

We gave the Harrods Christmas sock to Dad.

So there it is, finally our Christmas tree is finished. We're happy to have it in our home. It's helped to make it really feel like Christmas around here.

Comments

Angee said…
Love them! Merry Christmas! Please email me your address. I will not send your babies gift so you will not have to hall it home. But, I could send you something else. Love Angee
December 17, 2007 at 2:14 PM
Laura F said…
I love it, and what fun ornaments! I'm so glad you finally got to decorate for Christmas - your tree looks great! I especially like Addylin's ornament. :-)
December 17, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Cheryl said…
Darling! I love the little tree and the shot with your boys. They are so cute. And I totally love the ornaments. They will be treasured pieces forever!

Merry Christmas!
December 18, 2007 at 9:12 PM
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