Let's Decorate!

I am finally getting around to posting about this! We LOVE Christmas around our house and when it comes to decorating we pull out all of the stops. One of the many things that I really love about Brad is that he gets really in to decorating for the holidays! It doesn't matter the holiday but I think Christmas is his favorite. Our first Christmas being married we went out and bought our tree, all the ornaments and tons of decorations. Brad wanted to theme our tree blues and whites and silvers so that is what we did. I love our tree! It doesn't look as great this year however because someone keeps taking ornaments off so we keep having to move them around and the top of the tree is getting very cluttered :)

We always decorate the house the day after Thanksgiving. We have lots of decorations so it is a full day affair. This year Brad got stuck with one job.....the lights on the tree. We have a pre-lit tree and this year it decided to be difficult. There were some lights out so Brad went around and changed probably 20. Then some of the fuses needed to be replaced. He ended up having to go out and buy a tool to do something to the shunts or something. WAY too confusing for me. It took him 5 hours so I spent this time doing all of the other decorations. He got the tree all fixed and looking great. Then we decorated it together.

Growing up I got a new Christmas tree ornament each year. We have decided we are going to do this with our kids. Cooper got one when I was pregnant, last year and then this year.

2009: It says "Good Things Come in Tiny Little Packages, and ours is coming in July"
2010: A typical Baby's First Christmas. It was so hard finding a decent one last year. I wrote a little note to Cooper on the back of the white tile.
2011: Cooper's Halloween costume looked almost exactly like this ornament. It was too perfect!!!


This year we let Cooper put his ornament on the tree.



Cooper surprisingly took a really long nap so he slept thru most of the decorating which was amazing! There is no way we could have gotten anything done with him being awake. He did however help Brad hang up his window clings a few days after we decorated. Cooper is obsessed with the mirror and window clings. We hang them up for every holiday. They don't go on perfect because they just get taken down and moved around by Cooper.

Here is Brad and Cooper putting up the window clings together. Cooper felt soooo big doing it by himself! My favorite!!!!


Here is just a little taste of Christmas at the Harline home......there were even decorations we didn't put up this year! I have some fun Christmas projects to come as well!



The nativity scene we have is one of the things my mom gave Cooper on Thanksgiving. She gave one to each of her children and got one for her house. She wanted each of us to have one for our houses. They are kid friendly so we don't have to worry about them getting broken. Perfect nativity scene for a house with small children! They are so adorable and Cooper loves to play with them. He even will rock and kiss baby Jesus. So cute!

We are so excited and ready for Christmas to be here. But not too quickly because the Christmas season is so magical and fun!

Here is one of Cooper's FAVORITE things to do since the tree has been put up. Little Stinker!!!



Cooper has definitely had a hard time learning to not touch the ornaments on the tree and pulling them off. Many time-outs have occurred! The only loss we have had so far was when Cooper decided to throw and shatter a snow globe :) I love my little guy even if he is a terror!