Today Dominic is 5 months old and he finds this to be pretty hilarious:

Thanks to Richard for taking some awesome photos, we have a great set of Christmas photos to choose from for our Christmas card. Thought he selection was hard we were able to nail it down and have printed our Christmas card and will send them out this coming week.

You can see the edited Selection of photos here

As of last night, we are 100% officially decked out for Christmas 2008!

It started on (Black) Friday of last week with me pulling out the decorations from the (meth)shed and I strung up lights on the outside of the house while lori hung up some inside decorations.

Saturday we hung our lighted fake pine garland on the wall opposite our TV. Tuesday came and I had heard about the awesome clearance discounts at Lowes on all holiday decorations including the expensive fake trees. I know, I know, first a neti pot and now a fake tree. Believe me when I say I LOVE real pine trees, in fact when we lived in Idaho we used to go to our neighbor’s house and pick a tree from his forrest!

Lori and I had considered getting a fake tree with now having Dominic (and eventually having another). We figured with him running around next year it’d be better not having to deal with the pine needles, watering, drying out, fire hazard and the other down side of having a sort of live tree in your house. I have to say after seeing the tree decorated and light up (oh yeah it’s pre light!!!) it looks very nice and always so perfect. The only drawback is that it doesn’t smell. So in honor of that I put a 3-pack of little trees air freshener on the tree as an ornament.

Here’s a time lapse video that boils down the hour it took us to assemble and decorate the tree into 2:30.

I am so looking forward to celebrating the Holiday as a newly extended family this year!