One of my favorite family traditions here is getting our Christbaum (Christmas tree)!!!
In early December, we go and pick our tree in the nearby town of Gresten. We tie a ribbon with our name on it and that reserves our tree!
Then the week before Christmas we go back, find our tree and cut it down! It's traditional here not to put up your tree until Christmas Eve. We did it a couple of days earlier and it was great this year because the kids could hang all the ornaments themselves -- we just kept the breakable ones packed away :)
Ellie and Francis carried our tree all the way down the hill!
My mom sent Christmas pajamas for us to wear as she does every year. Although she mailed them in November, they didn't arrive until a few days after Christmas. But the kids still love wearing them -- pretty much year round!
