It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christmas is a big deal at the Wright house!  Lisa truly has a thousand bins of Christmas stuff - wreathes and Nativity scenes and snowmen and Santas.  And it grows every year!  This year we brought it all out and it was a weekend deal to "get decorated for the holidays."

We headed out to Hanover Pines Christmas Tree Farm in Beaverdam, VA to cut down our own tree.  They have a terrific set-up there where you take a hayride out into the woods and are dropped off to start the search.  Once you have found your tree and cut it down, they hoist it up on the back of the wagon and take you back to the office, where they shake, bind and tie the tree to your vehicle, all while offering free hot chocolate and hot cider.   A great deal!  We picked our tree out pretty quickly this year.  It's only about 10 1/2-11 ft. tall, a little shorter than our usual 14 ft. tree, but it is one of the prettiest we ever have had.

The whole family, including Daniel home from college, decorated the tree to the sound of Christmas music.  Lisa put on the lights, as usual because she is the only one with patience for it, and the rest of us hung our collection of 1 million (it seemed) ornaments.

A fun holiday tradition, as we start to prepare for the celebration of our Christ's birth!