Best Shot Monday

listen here, monday! you need to stop sneaking up on me like this, ya hear! grrrrrr!
;)

so, this is a super hectic time of year 'round our house. probably at yours too, huh? well, i managed to get a few pictures taken and find a couple minutes to actually get them on the computer. whoa!

we decorated the tree this past week. bean LOVES decorating the tree. LOVES IT. she asks every day if we can do it again. she doesn't understand why i'm not up for this. hmmm.

here is bean checking out one of our ornaments. one of the one's i get to hang.
(ya see, i don't want a repeat of last year's snow globe smashing. broken snow globe is NOT fun to clean up. NOT fun.)

bean was very amused when she found the box with the pickle in it. she thought it was funny that we would put a pickle on our tree. so i explained the tradition of the pickle. "one person hides the pickle on the tree and everyone else tries to find it. the first one who finds it gets an extra little gift." well bean wanted me to hide that pickle that very second so she could find it and get a little gift.
ummmm...... i wasn't planing on doing this. i thought she was still too little to do the pickle thing. oh well, what the heck! "you have to wait for daddy," i tell her. "you need someone else to look at the same time." she decided that was ok.

here are bean and daddy looking for the pickle.

and here is bean finding that pickle.

i can't really pick a best shot. i like all of these because of the warm glowy feeling of the christmas lights i think.
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