Our Christmas Tree!

Yesterday we went Christmas tree hunting! We went to a local tree farm and found the perfect tree! We were warned that there weren't very many good trees to pick from due to the drought, but we found our tree pretty quickly! I think we were a little over excited because we had never had a real Christmas tree. We have used Craig's grandma's fake tree for the past 5 years. We decided it was time for a change!

Craig spotted this one! 7 ft tall spruce!

It has a few areas of "character," but it has a nice shape!

That tree never saw Craig coming!

One last hug before we killed it!

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With Craig's trusty new sharp saw that tree would have been down in 30 seconds, but I thought I had to try. I made NO progress, so Craig finished.

Ta Da!

The tree is cut! We found out that this kind of tree is pretty pokey - it's needles are sharp! Also, it has really sticky sap! I had to dig out the rubbing alcohol just so my fingers didn't stick together! We were warned that this tree is a little sensitive, so we bought tablets to put in the water. I have watered it several times already. I hope this tree will last through the new year and that we are good Christmas tree parents!

While we were waiting on our full service Christmas tree experience, Craig made a friend!

They had free cider and hot chocolate! It tasted very good and it was also a nice finger warmer!

This is the contraption that binds/wraps the tree after it has been shaken.

Our tree going in!

Craig strapping it to the roof!

I got the stand ready while Craig got the tree untied and brought up the stairs.

All lit up!

I put the ornaments on this morning. We definitely have a different branch to ornament ratio this year!

Our 6th Christmas! Fav ornament!

I'm so glad we got our tree yesterday 6 hours before it started snowing! It is definitely starting to feel a lot like Christmas!