Samantha's first blog

Posted By pamelamyers on December 18, 2011

This year was the first year Mark and I have ever gotten an artificial tree for Christmas.  We had a lot of reasons for doing so including Mark’s allergies, the fact that Sam would make us crazy with wanting to pick up every pine needle that falls, and also, that we wanted to be able to have our tree up for as long as possible this year so that we, but mostly Sam, can enjoy it.  Our tree is gorgeous, I have to say.  My only conditions for buying one were that it had to be large and that I didn’t want to be able to see inside the tree to the trunk.  We found a beautiful (read – expensive) one online but it was worth it.

Sam helped us decorate the tree this year for the first time.  She was so excited opening each ornament that was wrapped in tissue paper.  We have a lot of animal ornaments, which she loves, and every time Mark would open one she would say, “More animals!”  The only difficult part was that she wanted to lay them all out on our sofa and look at them instead of hanging them on the tree.  We eventually did get the tree decorated, and she even hung an ornament or two herself.

Mark let her unwrap a few and she was even allowed to touch the delicate glass birds.

Digging for some good ones!

Every one she unwrapped was like a present.

She looks so happy being allowed to touch everything!

We have a bunch of these animals and she loves them.  We went and bought more this year because she liked them so much.

Hanging her ornaments.

She was very disappointed here that this was only a Pez dispenser ornament and there was no candy inside.

After a hard day decorating, it was pizza time!

Zephyr loves the tree too.  Muffin used to sleep there more than she did, so we like to think she is doing it in his honor.  We miss you Muffin boy.

After all of our hard work, here is our tree!

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