xmas prep, the 2011 edition

After we celebrated Seal Pup 2.0's birthday, we immediately kicked things in gear for Christmas preparations.  We pulled out the fake mini-tree and all the decorations.

We got a tree (a real one from our usual tree farm).

And in the vein of "we did it because we could" (or really, because we were told to), we went to New York to have lunch with my mom.

It was a two grandmother kind of day!

And then we went back home and decorated the tree.

Christmas, we are ready for you.