it's chriiiiiistmasssss....time in the city...

ohhhhh the weather outside it frightful......but the fire is so deeeelightful...so, maybe i don't know the lyrics exactly...but you get the drift. i was going to write a very loooong post, about my obscene hatred for the almighty commercialization of christmas, and how that target\hobby lobby and all their counterparts are shoving it down our throats by the end of october (i even had pictures of the disarray i encountered on monday at garden ridge)...BUT i have decided to go the other direction and leave that post for another day.

so with my soap box temporarily set aside, i will share with you the little visions of vivian-esque sugar plum fairies dancing in my head. i absolutely LOVED going to "look-e-see" with my mother at christmas time. (this is NO way means purchasing oodles of unmeaningful trinkets!! it is just as its name indicates a LOOK and SEE. i still use this as an inspiration and reflection for the impeding season, NOT a must-have-the-glitter-filled-turquoise-poinsettias-i-saw-at-holiday-house-or-i-will-die time. but i digress...) it is a tradition i have already began to carry on with vivian. here she is checking out a princess christmas tree (which she loved, but we did not buy)...i especially love the pose...

and speaking of chirstmas trees. we made the decision to get our first real christmas tree this year (more of an economic decision than a green one, i know). AND the man at home depot was so NICE, and helpful...maybe that is why i am temporarily shelving my little speech...he really renewed my faith.

OR maybe it was the old school feeling of driving home with a 7 1/2 foot tree strapped to the top of my truck. :)

little miss vivian was only too happy to pose.

we then set out to decorate HER very own tree (a $6 knock off of the $29.99 disney tree)...

when it was all finished, we put it in her room.

what did bauer do while we were decorating? ohhh...he found a way to amuse himself.

i love those crazy kiddos!!!

finally, mr. b went to bed and vivian and mommy settled down to watch the grinch.

then after vivian went to bed, clif and i began to tackle the big tree....with help from momo, of course. pictures soon to come... :)