Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

Here are a few pictures leading up to Christmas -

The boys with cousin Will playing at Grandmas' (that I forgot from the Thanksgiving post):

This is a ninja picture that Tomas photoshopped for Lucy's Christmas card. The family wasn't there all at the same time so we took two different pictures and then put them together. There is one little flaw though - Kimball made it into both pictures and so he's in there twice!  Any extra grandkid it is...

Our next door neighbors are a funny old couple who did not like the people who lived in our house very much. Both couples lived in their houses next door to each other for at least 50 years, but they never got along. It took the neighbors a little while to warm up to us. I think they were just used to not liking who lived here so it transferred to us for a bit. Once they got to know us and the kids and we buttered them up with treats they now love us. They had a tree in their yard that needed cut down so they asked if we wanted it for Christmas tree. Being the cheapskates that we are, we said yes.

Here is the tree in our neighbors' yard:

 And here the top is in our house... whoa. It was so much more thin and scrubby than we thought.

No fear, Thomas the ninja is here. He took branches from the other parts of the tree and stuck them into wholes he drilled. He spent over an hour handcrafting a new tree for us...

Looks better doesn't it! Henry was pretty excited about the whole thing.

 She still had a few bare spots when we were done, but it was much better than when we started. We are pretty sure it is the most Charlie Brownesque tree we've ever had though.