Putting up Lights

Here are James and Leah helping Sam put the Christmas tree up.

Baby Leah discovering the tree. We got a prickly one and so far it's worked to deter her from pulling off the ornaments. We only put up the non-breakable ones just in case. Amelie and James have probably been somewhat limited by the prickly branches, but they've still done a fair amount of rearranging (or rather knocking off and putting back on).

Here's the finished product: 

We also put up just a few lights outside. Here's James, helping again. 

The finished outside lights: 

Festive mantle. I love sending and getting Christmas cards, but I'm so behind this year! We have a stack that still need to be stuffed/sent.