It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas......

I love the holidays.  I love all the traditions that we have in our family.  The kids get so fired up about decorating the tree, writing letters to Santa Clause, making gingerbread houses, putting up lights, etc.  THis year we managed to see Santa at the Jericho Store, see the Nutcracker at the Flynn, and cut down a really special Christmas tree at High Meadow. 

This tree was growing on the dam for the pond up at high meadow.  I guess it is not good for a dam to have trees running roots along it.  Cynthia and Scott showed the kid the tree this summer and told us we should use it for a Christmas tree.  John wasn't sure if it would be good enough for our home, but he agreed that it would be a "special tree", somewhat Charlie Brownish.

Sadly, I don't have a single picture of our beautiful Christmas tree (all decorated), but it was a great tree.  There were some large openings, but it looked amazing. 

Every December, I am reminded of the year when Cally was in my belly.  We were living at High Meadow and I was so anxious to meet her.  She liked being in there, because she hung out for an extra 11 days.  In those days, John and I did all the Christmas traditions that we didn't think we'd have time to do--- cutting down a tree, decorating the house, making cookies.  Being able to cut our tree from this special spot warmed my heart.