The Altmeyer Family Christmas Tree!!
As always we have a hard time picking a small tree... this one by far has been the biggest, but it was a special year. Our first time having Christmas at home and with our beautiful Evie.
Check out our sweet little girls staying up late on Christmas Eve. I didn't buy new Christmas PJ's like I have in years past... we went "green" and recycled pajamas from past Christmases...they didn't care.
So our first Christmas at home. It was great. Not that going home to WV is not a blast, but it was just sweet to stay at home and not fight holiday traffic and lug our presents 7 hours just to bring them back. But, it was just fun. We made it to Christmas Eve Mass where Lily was a little lamb in the children's performance. Believe it or not Rose got stage fright and could not go on... total proof that my children constantly keep me guessing. Then after Mass we came home had a wonderful meal... getting to use our wedding China (only the 2nd time in 7 1/2 years), and then watched a little Christmas Story until we tucked the girls into bed... I'll never forget Lily swearing that she heard santa and his reindeer on the roof as we were saying prayers for the night.
Of course Christmas morning was perfect... the girls running in and laying in bed wondering if Santa really came. But, even in the mist of all the new Christmas traditions Rose was emphatic that we all line up youngest to oldest as we entered the family room. This is a tradition that my family has done my entire life and when Rose pointed out that we must
also do this I was touched. LONG LIVE THAT TRADITION!
Even though Santa made it to NC this year we still travelled the next day to see WV family... onto the next post.....
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