Christmas Tree decorating!

We got a new laptop!!! Yay!!! Time to start fresh and put new photos up on the family blog again!

We put up our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. We actually went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year, it was lots of fun!








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