Decorating for Christmas

So, here is a picture of God's decoration for Christmas-- snow. We actually didn't have any snow left for Christmas, but the same weekend that the East Coast got a lot of snow, so did we (though, we only got around 8 inches). The streets in the back part of Diosd hadn't been scraped, so the folks who go to our church and live in this part didn't go that Sunday. We did end up walking a block down the street and having church in someone's home.

On the way back, Ethan fell asleep. We don't have many opportunities to get a picture of the 3 of us, so we asked our neighbor, who was shoveling his walkway, to take this picture of us.
Ethan really enjoyed "helping out" with decorating the Christmas tree. He played with the box that the lights were in for a long time, and then he played with the lights.

My mom gave Ethan his first Christmas ornament, and Gary helped him hang it as the 2nd ornament on the tree (with our family ornament from my mom being first).

I was really amazed that Ethan didn't 'mess' with the Christmas tree or ornaments that much. We made sure to put nonbreakable ornaments without hooks near the bottom of the tree expecting him to mess with them a lot, but he only touched the tree and ornaments on it a few times while it was up.