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"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."

Wyatt and I have graduated from the 3-footer tree on top of our table from last year, to this...


Although it still looks like a 3-footer on top of the car, this one actually stands on the ground!


Wyatt's stepmom, Mickie gave me this great idea to string popcorn and cranberries.  I had never heard of this before, so I thought I'd give it a go, not realizing how long it would actually take me to make.  (In case you were wondering, for a tree that's not even 5 feet tall, it took 8-9 feet of popcorn and cranberries!  It ended up looking so cute, though.  I was even able to pick up two cardinal ornaments while shopping with Mickie while on our trip to Yreka.  They looked great!

Wyatt put up almost every ornament from his childhood on this tree.  Geez!  If I knew he'd do that, we should have gotten a 7-footer!  I let him know that we had a lot more Christmases together and he could save some for another year.  Hahaha.  I didn't need to buy too many more oraments because he had so many!


The tree looked fabulous.  As soon as we were done, McKayla took her claws to it.  She's so well-behaved.  Instead of making her stop, we just laughed.  We're such great parents!  Hahaaha!

God Bless,
Kat


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