I'm about to put way too many photographs in a single post (not to mention I'm blogging about last Christmas, when the kids have just started back to school), but I'm trying to share the last few set of photographs hiding on my hard-drive, before I return to in real time blogging. I didn't take nearly as many pictures of our Holiday decorations last year, but I do have some pretty sweet moments preserved. Like we've done for the last several years, we had both a real tree and an artificial one last year. Our go-to location for Christmas tree shopping is a local tent where they bring fir trees from the Carolinas to sell. We opted to get our tree a little later in the season last year -- hoping it would last a little longer -- and were super disappointed to see the tent was out of trees and packing up for the season. We made a trip to the local tree farm instead and had a very stressful time agreeing on something that would fit in our sunroom. She's not perfect, but she was very ...

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