Since this is our first Christmas in our new home, Mike and I really wanted to put some thought and effort into making it look really festive this holiday season.  And one way we did that was to try and "Griswold" the house as much as we could without going overboard.  Which could be easy to do if we had a cherry picker and miles of string lights.....perhaps next year?

But instead, we had a great time with what we had and Mike proved that he is an excellent tree climber!

 Jack loved being outside and helping daddy!

 There's no sitting still for this little man.