As much as I love real Christmas trees, it has gotten too expensive to buy one each year. They are cheaper here than what we’d pay in the US, but we make less than what we would make in the US too. :-) So, we finally broke down and got a fake tree. We looked for fake trees here last year or the year before, and just couldn’t find any good fake trees. For the most part they were pretty dinky. We borrowed one from a family last year, but didn’t get it decorated before we ended up going back to the States for Lori’s funeral. While in the States we looked at trees thinking maybe we could buy one after Christmas inexpensively and bring it back, but the boxes were beyond the size limit we could take on the airplane. So, when we came back to Hungary we asked the family who we borrowed the tree from if we could buy it from them, and they said yes.
It was nice not stressing about getting a tree this year. I wish we could have put it up earlier than we did, but with not getting back until December it was a lower priority. I decided this year not to put our really nice, breakable ornaments on the tree because if one broke we wouldn’t be able to replace it. Ethan has been good about not messing with ornaments, but there is always a first time, there are other children over here, Sienna is getting a little more mobile, and accidents often occur around young children.
My mom had an ornament made for Ethan’s first Christmas and one for the 3 of us in 2009. Ethan hung his ornament first and then our family ornament from 2009. 
This year Mom gave Sienna one for her first Christmas and gave us one for the 4 of us. 
Sienna looking cute in her little dress that belonged to a friend in NC. We actually got two 12-month Christmas dresses from her, and they both fit well enough for Sienna to wear. Other than “hanging her ornament” Sienna sat and watched. 
Gary and I were impressed at how well Ethan did with hanging ornaments. A lot of them were difficult to get the string open, but he managed.
All done!
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