We were really looking forward to Christmas this year since Rachel is sort of getting it now - meaning that she can say Santa & Jesus and shows her excitement a little more than last year. She's 18 months old now and getting so big! She was especially excited to see Grandma, Grandpy, Nana & Papa in Utah (she talks about them daily). We were also excited about the snow, that is until we lived in it and froze for two weeks and decided that that was enough for us - we are such winter babies now that we live in Arizona. Anyway, before we left for Utah we put lights up for the first time and decorated our house to make it feel like Christmas (even though it didn't really feel like Christmas to me until we got to Utah). We have two, small fake trees to decorate - one for dad & Rach (left) and one for mom (right), and Rachel did great at leaving the ornaments alone for the most part. We also listened to lots of Christmas music on pandora.com - if you haven't discovered this website yet, check it out here. Oh, and Rachel requested to watch Baby Einstein's "Baby Santa" constantly.
Then Brandon made Christmas lemonade using the lemons from our tree out back. It's not really Christmas-y, but they are fully ripe now and it was delicious. We'll have to be in charge of the lemons for next year's mint julep drink at the Hale Christmas Eve Party. (Does anyone else have this Christmas drink tradition? Our version is non-alcoholic and it's ingredients are lemons, sprite, sugar, mint extract, green food coloring and lots of ice.)
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You have a lemon tree?? I am so jealous! There are so many citrus trees around here and I'm also really tempted to just pick a few.
I need to make friends with someone who has fruit trees and who will share with me.
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