Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas Prep and Bubble Wrap

Every first sentence that I come up with is a song lyric (Christmas Time is Here, It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, Oh Christmas Tree, etc.) so I'll skip all that and just say that on Sunday Kyle and I ushered in the holidays by setting up our little artifical and pre-lit yet still somewhat Charlie Brown Christmas tree and decorating it with whatever we found around the house.

As planned I released the monkeys from their barrel and made a garland:

We added all of Kyle's stuffed penguins that came with ribbons as well as some ornaments that I think Emily left behind when she headed up north for grad school with only the belongings that could fit in her car. We also wrapped presents to put under the tree. Now, I'm not one of those star wrappers with perfect lines and corners, but compared to Kyle, well...

We put the presents under the tree and topped it off with a flashing red bicycle light. I'd say the tree fits us perfectly. Kyle talked about buying a better tree (during the post-Christmas sales of course) for our first married Christmas together, but I have a certain fondness for this little one.

Oh, and then we danced on a ton of left over bubble wrap. I like this photo because my whirlwind hair looks like it's trying to keep me anonymous, and the right side of our kitchen looks like it's in a 70s snapshot.

Kyle also filmed part of the insanity, which may show up here at some point. Or you can ask us nicely to see it.

Happy Holidays!

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