Christmas Tree and Advent

My kids are ages 9 and 7.  This will be the first year of their lives that I have done a countdown to Christmas with them.  I bought several advent calendars and last night they got to start the official countdown.  We also put up our Christmas tree last night.  If anyone has any ideas for me to keep the darn cat out of the tree please let me know!

From Miskey

David put all the lights on,

From David

We sang Christmas carols and ate Christmas food and the whole world was a better 

place. HA. Not.