Christmas in P-Ville

If we had any doubt that the Christmas season is here to stay, our holiday-activity filled day yesterday put those thoughts to rest.  

We started things off with that age-old Christmas tradition: the cutting of the Chistmas tree.  Of course, in this case it was less "cutting" and more "picking it out from the parking lot at Produce Junction."  No matter though, the sentiment is the same.  Here are some pictures of us bringing our trophy back to the Abode.

More on the tree later. 

Our other big adventure for the day was the annual Phoenixville Christmas Parade.  The weather was certainly living up to it's wintry resposibility by providing a clear and cold (very, very cold) night.   Pheonixville's citizens emerged  from their warm homes for the festivites and the town looked the part, decked out in all it's holiday glory.

There were lots of firemen in the parade, and some of them got pretty extravagent in decorating their trucks for the occasion.  We cheered the loudest for this one because it's from the station right next to our house, and we could see them working on it from our back yard. Jen pointed out that hopefully there were no fires yesterday, seeing as how if this truck pulled up in front of your burning house it might not inspire a lot of confidence.

Also in the parade were lots of Christmas (and non Christmas) characters.  For example: there was the Grinch.

The three kings.

The Cat-in-the-Hat, and Scooby Do.

And my personal favorite: Elmo in a helicopter.

And who else but Santa would be the finale for this grand spectacle.  Here he is surrounded by some adoring female goupies.  What a life.

After the parade we came back home to finish decorating the tree.  Here are some time lapse photos for you so that you can watch the magic unfold.

The tree is up...

the lights are on...

decorating, decorating, decorating...

the star goes on top...

and we're done!  Whew.

I'm sure that we'll post some more Boy-Meets-Tree pictures later on in the blog.  But for now here is Aiden's first up close and personal experience with a Christmas tree.  Seconds later he pulled off his first ornament.  Awwwww...