Oh, Christmas Tree!

Alright, so we really DID have the Christmas tree up on December 1st… it’s just taken me a while to blog it! Our Christmas tree decorating spanned two consecutive nights, actually- we didn’t have enough lights on the first night! This is Michael’s grandparents’ former tree, and our old one was pre-lit so we weren’t sure what we’d need.

We had one strand of big ol’ lights that we were given with the tree.

Lucky for us, Lelia is an expert tree-decorator. You might even say she’s a “star” at it!

You can see how naked it looked that first night. You can also see how bad I am at getting in the frame of the photo. Whoops!

We got more lights the next day, and finally finished it!!

And after we took one nice picture all together in front of the tree, we started playing with flashlights and long exposures! (Yep, my new tripod gets put to good use, doesn’t it?) Here are Michael’s creations:

And this was Lelia’s idea: