We bought a Christmas tree from Macclesfield Forest yesterday. Introducing...Bruce the spruce! We've never had a real tree before so it's quite exciting. We didn't know what to look for when we were tree shopping but in the end we decided to let the tree pick us and then it was easy. We found one that we liked but then spotted Bruce and changed our minds. Is it weird that I felt bad about leaving the first choice tree behind? I'm sure it will go to a good home.

Hazel helped decorate.

She has inherited our little fibre optic tree for her bedroom.

Hazel's Christmas show. Chaos as usual, but she didn't cry this year!

Click here for video of Hazel singing Christmas songs. (Windows Media Player format.)

Christmas morning.