Getting in the Christmas spirit!

Well trying to atleast. In all honesty it's been hard. Usually at this time of year I've got my fingers painted red and green and I'm watching Christmas Story on a nightly basis. But for some reason this year just isn't the same. Papa passed just 9 days before Christmas - so the holidays would have been hard enough without him let alone the fact that it happened so close to Christmas day. So anyway, we put up the tree and decorated the house (and Lincoln as you can tell from the picture hehehe) in order to raise our spirits. I was putting it off and putting it off especially since little Lincoln learned to crawl! When he was stationary he was into everything and now that he can move we knew that we were going to be in trouble. Like we imagined, he's bolting for the tree at every chance he gets so we're on our toes. Laney did a FANTASTIC job decorating the tree all on her own. Crossing my fingers for some Christmas cheer :-)

Oh an please send me some luck - another reason for my current Grinch'y mood is that I've lost my Christmas Story DVD!!! I have the case and the extras disc - but no dvd to be found. So maybe there's a lost dvd elf that can help me out..... anyone??