Here are some of The Arthur Clan’s Christmas traditions:
1| Decorating the Christmas tree
All of the photos I am sharing were taken while we were decorating our tree yesterday. Yes…I was a bad mom and couldn’t seem to find enough time to tackle that task until the Sunday before Christmas. I have a sneaky suspicion that the kids will make me keep the tree up until February 1st to make up for my transgressions.
2| I have a lovely tradition of always opening up the Christmas decorations box, going through the Christmas lights and then realizing that at least 2-3 strands of lights aren’t working.
Even though I just purchased them last year.
3| That leads to the tradition of me (in my head) silently shouting a few choice words at the tree lights for the next hour.
4| Which leads to the tradition of daddy having to head out to 10+ stores to try to find the one box of clear Christmas lights that somehow escaped being purchased by everyone who thinks ahead to this issue in early December.
5| Which leads to daddy (not-so-silently) saying a few choice words about the whole decorating-the-tree experience each year.
6| We have a tradition of trying to take an annual “We’ve-Been-Decorating-Our-Tree!!” family photo.
7| Which is (of course!) a highly successful endeavor.
At which time I wipe off my sweating brow and thank the good Lord above that one Christmas tradition is finished for the year.
What are your holiday traditions? Share them this week over at I Heart Faces…
18 comments:
Those are really lovely photos! I love them! No one can tell from looking at the photos that there was any drama surrounding the tree-decorating. :)
Have a blessed Christmas.
Wonderful! everyone needs a little drama around Christmas (smiles)
We celebrate Advent, so we intentionally don't put up the tree until this week... sort of like the pinnacle of the preparations... so in my house, you'd be early!!
Merry Christmas. And thanks for IHF.. it's terrific.
Christmas tree decorating is a stressful endeavor. It shouldn't be...but it is. This year, I eventually was kicking the kids out of the room. Something wrong with that picture? Now my tree is bare from the middle down because hte kids can't keep their hands off the ornaments. I'm glad I switched to plastic bulbs. :)
Sweet photos! :) Our lights never work the next year either. So frustrating! Your tree looks great! :)
Beautiful photos! I think we have similar decorating tastes. That's the gingham ribbon I wanted but failed to find!
Love their hats! I can't wait to see these photos a few years from now as they are all rolling their eyes at you! LOL!
Hey Ang,
What's Janine's new blog? I can't find any links to it.
-Jon
Great photos. Funny... we have some of the same traditions!
Great pictures. It is fun when the kids get big enough to actually be helpful.
Those are gorgeous photos! So...inquiring minds want to know...how did you manage such great lighting indoors? PLEASE share...my pics are awful!
Hey Jon - Janine's new blog address is http://www.thescandlonsquad.blogspot.com/
@Karin - I'm not sure how I finally got good tree photos...this is seriously the first year that this has happened.
I used one of my lenses that has an aperture of 2.8 and kept it opened wide. I also had my camera set at it's highest ISO of 1600. I don't fear using a high ISO because I own a program from http://www.imagenomic.com called Noiseware that is AMAZING. It pretty much takes out any noise that I can throw at it.
I then did a lot of editing in Camera RAW to tone down the yellows I had and then did my typical editing routine. I did go back into Hue/Saturation to tone down the yellows again though. I can't seem to take a nighttime photo without a lot of yellow in it.
HTH!
I love the pictures, and the processing, and the tree, and the Willow Tree figurine, and .. well, everything! You sure make beautiful babies, Angie... every one of 'em is as cute as can be!
You are not alone. We just decorated our tree Sunday as well. Pretty late for us but at least the tree won't be dried up and dead by Christmas day!
I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who has problems getting lights that work for more then a year. I told Cain, that I have lost track of the lights, and what year I bought them, so I was going to start marking on them with tape what year I bought them, so I can figure out which ones are going out each year. I had to buy 10 new strands this year. I bought them at Target, instead of Walmart. Maybe that will make the difference. Love the pictures!
Angie..thank you, yes, that helped a lot. I have been afraid to bump my ISO that high, but I will have to give that a try. I don't heart yellow indoor pics!
I LOVE your photos and read your blog daily. :)
Wonderful traditions you have in your house!
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year!
oh my word, such stunning photo's once again.
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