Oh Tannenbaum - Oh Christmas Tree

wie grün sind deine Blätter.... Sorry that is what has been going round and around in my head all day today! You see this morning we went into the woods and chose our Xmas tree.

This year Robert wanted to saw it down and Florian let him do the very first bit of it. So cute!

I stood there snap happy after pointing out which tree I thought would look good in our lounge!
Then the boys got the snow off of it, so we could see if we still thought it would look good, then they sawed, and dragged it to the car.


It was a fun morning that we all got excited about. It costs a lot more than going to the supermarket and getting one, but it is way more fun this way!
OOH, and this afternoon another GREAT fun thing! We took the boys to the cinema! We decided to go today as we need the tree to dry off before bringing it in to decorate, so we'll do that tomorrow.
Robert wasn't sure he wanted to go to the cinema, he's like that anything new can't be good, is his motto! BUT he loved it. We had popcorn as well. Richard tucked straight into that but Robert was so enthralled by the film, he forgot what he was holding...until I put a piece in his mouth for him!
We saw Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa, they love part 1 so much, and they loved part 2 too. They said it was a bit scary, but we discussed those parts after and they were OK. Now I will probably have to keep explaining why we can't go and see it again. I hope it comes out on DVD soon!
And as all good things come in threes. We finished off our day with a trip to McDonalds for tea.

And surprise, the Happy Meal for the kids came with Madagascar figures!! So it really did round the day off nicely! (Although Florian is downstairs now, having his tea here - since McDonalds took the Veggie Burger off the menu, there isn't really much other than chips there for him to eat! Plus we already had rolls for tea really!)
Hope you like the pictures, expect to see them scrapped sometime soon.
Bye 4 now