family + funnies: Fluffing Day!

My parents inherited a humongous fake Christmas Tree from my grandparents a few years ago. I mean, this guy's over 12 feet tall, or as my dad explained, it's two Spencers tall. And it's beautiful! It reminds me of the Christmas Tree in The Nutcracker, that grows larger and larger as the mice and dolls scamper out.

So every year, my dad pulls the mammoth tree out, shakes it a bit to make sure no little critters got in it, and hauls it into our entry. Then Fluffing Day begins! This year, my parents' house is on the Christmas Home Tour for our ward so it needed to be spectacular!

We all help (sometimes not willingly) to hook in the branches, pull them apart and FLUFF. And believe me there is a ton that needs fluffing.

Spencer and my dad had to get on the barstools to hoist the top part of the tree onto the rod. Mom kept saying, "Watch your fingers!" So of course, Spencer screams as soon as they hook it on and scares my mom into thinking that he got his fingers caught. haha. What would we do without our goofy Spencer?

It's a fun tradition in the end as we goof off, laugh, stay in our pajamas, scratch our arms on the branches, scare mom and have fun together as a family. Happy Fluffing Day!