O' Christmas Tree, O' Christmas Tree-Where art thou?

Despite the fact that we are moving and surrounded by general chaos, Christmas managed to show up in the Marsh household. Albeit, we are eleven days away from the event but better late than never. Since the house is topsy-turvy, we opted for a small tree this year because we didn't want to deal with Isabella trying to grab at it or thousands of dry, sharp, pine needles.

Our "little" tree before:


And after:

I know she won't win an award for "Best Decorations" or anything but at least the kids will enjoy her.

In other news, we went to the 3rd annual Mousavi-Sandoval Christmas party on Saturday night. It's a family and friends kind of party so kids come along and are running around in their pajamas most of the night while the adults drink...ahem...I mean socialize. Below are the best two shots of the evening because all the other ones were either blurry, surrounded by some yellow light I can't explain, or unflattering. You'll note that there are no pictures of me and this is do to all of the adjectives mentioned in the previous sentence.

Papa and Izzy:

And Sam up to no good in Arianna's closet: