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Our tradition is the tree goes up the day after Thanksgiving, and comes down New Years Day each year.

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Oh goodness, I haven't even decided if I am going to put one up yet!

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I have yet to get one.....but very soon.

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Here's mine plus a little present. My dog makes this his sleeping spot every year

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Here's mine plus a little present. My dog makes this his sleeping spot every year

Too cute!

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Here's mine plus a little present. My dog makes this his sleeping spot every year

So adorable! I wonder if he dreams of being on stage and performing with the spotlight on him? :)

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Thanks he probably does we have 4 dogs and he has to always be the center of attention but lives up to hus name, Prince.

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Here is my tree! My 5 year old and 2 year old helped! And so far I haven't rearranged the ornaments haha haha

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Those are lovely! From Halloween to Chirstmas is my favorite time of year. I love the fact that I can get pumpkin flavored everything, the way the leaves change color, the sights and smells of the Holidays. I get overexcited like a little kid for the Holidays. My husband says it's one of the many things that makes him fall in love with me over and over again. I really like to do different things each year for the holidays. This year our theme is lights, and I am taking my 12 year old daughter and her friends to several light shows/decoration events. We live in Northeast Florida so we are going to do St. Augustine (oldest city in the USA) they have 3 million tiny white lights up and twinkling. Then we are doing a charity event for our local zoo, also all wrapped in millions of lights. :) and finally we will attend a local boat parade, it passes under a bridge about 2 miles from my house, so we will each make a mug of hot cocoa, and walk down to enjoy all the decorated boats. And as you can see in my pictures, we love Nightmare Before Christmas, (there are several ornaments and even a nightmare stocking under my tree, it's hubby's favorite movie), so I am making the wreath from the movie today. I bought the stuff during the black friday sales, so now I just need to assemble it. I think we are replacing all the holiday baking with holiday crafting. My family is a bit disappointed, but we won't gain the 8-10 pounds most people do this season.

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Here's mine plus a little present. My dog makes this his sleeping spot every year

Love the dog, I bet he is having Santa puppy dreams. We have 3 dogs, all from rescues, and 2 of them were added to our family this year, so this is their first Christmas with us. They are both doing great with the tree. The one is a Cavalier King Charles, and he is not sure of the blinking lights when we first turn them on, but he seems fine after a few minutes. My female, was a stray, in really bad shape when the rescue took her in, is just glad to have a home, and people that love her. She "helped" put the tree up, she had to smell every ornament, and then she would sit while we put it on the tree, smell the next and sit, it was really funny. I was worried that she would be in the tree when I wasn't watching but it went up Friday and nothing has been touched so far. And they didn't have a chance to sleep under our tree, I wrapped the gifts I bought on Black Friday and put them under the tree already, so there is no room for pups.

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Yeah I'm not putting anything under yhe tree until Christmas we have 2 pitbull/lab pups tgat chew everything surprisingly though they havent messed with tree but our full grown lab gets under the tree snd tries to yse it as a backscratcher and knov ks ornaments down.

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Which one? We have 2, the first is in the living room, the second is in the bedroom. Yep...we love Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone!

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just wanted to say that seeing all the pretty trees, made me smile

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