On the seventh and eighth day of Christmas

 Yesterday we had a picnic dinner by the Christmas tree and then finished decorating it. We have a Ficus tree we use as our Christmas tree. It was given to us by my Aunt Pat and Uncle Dave when they moved out to their house in Oregon. It was given to them many years ago, so we are not sure how old the tree is. The tree has been with us in Montana, Utah and now Indiana. Some day when we have land again and live in Montana, we are going to get potted Christmas trees and then plant them each year. For now, we love the Ficus tree. We usually have white lights on it and the extra bells from our wedding. This year we changed out the lights and have colored ones on. 

The boys had fun decorating it.

 Leaf hung all the ornaments on one branch. He would walk away and bump them and they would all fall. He didn't get upset, he just walked back over, picked them up one by one and hung them in the exact same place. He did this at least four times, before Everest came over and took all but one and hung them somewhere else.

 Aurora and Daddy hung out on the couch and supervised.

 What do you mean I can't help yet!

On the eighth day of Christmas, we worked on a fire fighter helmet pinata. Everest is the coolest 5 year old. We won a birthday party at a Lafayette fire station last Spring at the Montessori auction. We are having the party on Friday. We were limited in guests and it was a hard decision on who to invite. We are very excited! There will be 2 fire trucks and 8 fire fighters at the party. The best part is that we get to ride on the fire truck! The party will be at a training facility so we will ride around the property. How cool is that?! We typically do a small party at home, but when we saw the kids get to ride on a fire truck, we had to bid on the party. If you know Everest you know how much he LOVES fire trucks and vehicles in general. We will share pictures this weekend.