Tonight for family home evening we rolled out the Christmas music (okay, so I've been playing this since Halloween -- I love it), Christmas decorations and put up our tree. This will be our fourth Christmas in Switzerland. (Actually, we are flying out to Russia on Christmas Eve.) The first Christmas here, we had just arrived, were living sans furniture in corporate housing and were only planning to stay one year. Moreover, I was 9 months pregnant and did not want to spend time vacuuming pine needles. So we purchased the cheapest fake tree available at IKEA, along with a few ornaments. Four Christmases later, we are still in Switzerland and we still have the same tree. Now it is hard to give up, because it holds too many wonderful memories. Plus, the girls can mostly decorate this tree themselves.
We began decorating to the music of "O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum". Mariah began singing loudly, "O Cannonball, O Cannonball. . ." I guess the German isn't sinking in is it?
A highlight of the evening was the kids nativity set. Mariah calls it the "Away in a Manger" because that's the music it plays when you push the angel. Tyler thinks this set is the greatest. As you can see, he can just reach it.
Anna Claire and her spinning hair, rockin' around the Christmas tree.
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