O Christmas Tree

I have been in New Zealand for nearly 2 years now, but it is taking a bit longer than I thought to acclimate myself to having holidays in opposite seasons down here. There was something nice, but something wrong about going to chop down a Christmas tree in summer. I did not want any hot cocoa when I got home, that's for sure. It's so hard to switch over when I had Christmas in winter for over 30 years.

Sandy came along to get a tree too!

The Christmas Tree farm.

Catherine and Sophia (she's living with us for a few weeks).

Travis chopping down our chosen tree. (Too bad someone accidentally took it and we went home with someone else's tree!)

This is the first time we've had a tree in 9 years. I finally talked Travis into it. So, this is Sophia's first tree. She wasn't really into decorating it too much yet. Trying to explain to a 2 year old why we chop down a tree, bring it in the house, and decorate it is interesting. Check out this clip about the holidays from Jim Gaffigan. Love it!

This photo was taken at 8:30 pm. That's another thing that's weird about having Christmas in summer...the lights don't really show up when the kids are awake because it's light out so late. Not that I'm complaining about having long days! I love it! But it just seems like maybe we should celebrate Christmas in the winter here too. :)