3 posts tagged “christmas tree”

Sean & Stefan say...

Christmas was a great holiday this year!  We spent the Christmas holiday in Virginia Beach with Sean's Mom, her cat Vanilla, and his sister Mikelle's dog Cierra.  Sean's sister Holly and her husband Frank came along later Xmas Day. All the gift's haven't been handed out yet so we won't talk about what we gave this year. We will just show you the pictures of us having fun!

 

 

Sean says...

I wanted to take the time to highlight a particular ornament that I have spoken a lot about this holiday season and many of my friends have requested to see. Known in my family by the totally politically incorrect name of "Chemo Girl" (PLEASE NOTE this name was given by children as a young age and is NOT meant to offend or make light of anyone going through cancer treatment at all!), this ornament has been with me since I was born. It was part of a tree set that had a story to it and many of the ornaments that came with the small table top tree it went on are still around at my mother's home.  Yes, I am embarrassed by its name but this misfit toy of sorts brings back a ton of memories of decorating the tree every year with my two sisters.

This ornament for some odd reason became my favorite and most celebrated on the tree every year we got ready for Xmas. As you can see she has not aged well and well she isn't exactly Xmas colors.  Mom extremely dislikes this ornament but knew its value to me so it came as a Xmas gift one year as a surprise!  Now she has a place of honor on the McFreed tree!  So here she is! Enjoy!

What is your favorite ornament of all time?

Sean & Stefan say...

Happy Holidays everyone! Well McFreed fans, the 2007 holiday season has begun and its time to decorate!!! 

This is our second Christmas and Hanukkah together, but the first living together so we are very excited! We wanted to start off celebrating our family and faith traditions right so we showed our pride with a menora and a Xmas tree.  

As some of you know Sean was brought up in the Christian faith (lapsed Catholic who attends the gay-friendly Metropolitian Community Churches) and Stefan was brought up in the Jewish tradition, very much left of Reform. This means the McFreed household is inter-faith. Christmas and Hanukkah are both celebrated here!

Hanukkah this year begins at sundown December 4th and ends at nightfall December 12th.

Here is the official McFreed Hanukkah display! We plan to observe the celebration by lighting the candles together and partaking in gift giving and traditional Hanukkah foods of potato latkes with applesauce.

Your McFreeds also put together a Xmas tree!  We kept with Stefan's love of a mid-century style and kept in mind the purple shades of paint in our front rooms of the condo when picking our tree. Ultimately, we went with an artificial 7 1/2 slim white Christmas tree! Never fear, Sean's "legacy" ornament know by the politically incorrect name "Chemo Girl" has made it on the tree this year - again!  Check it out!  We went crazy with the ornaments!  Click on our pictures to get a closer look at all our decorations!