Oh Tannebaum, oh Tannebaum
We love Christmas trees, but the kids have never had a real one before. Mainly because we have always traveled to Utah for Christmas, and have never in our 14 years of marriage (except the few short years when we lived in Provo/Orem, Utah) had Christmas in our own home. We just didn't see the sense in buying a real tree, decorate it, only to take it down before we left because it is a fire hazard. So, we have a really nice, beautiful pre-lit, artificial Christmas tree that we use.
Only this year we are in Germany, and we are staying in our house for Christmas. So it seemed wrong to use a fake tree...and we wanted the kids to experience having a real tree. So we went of to the tree lot everyone recommended, and we were able to cut down our "first" real Christmas tree. It was an experience to remember, mainly because it was wet and rainy and we lost light because we took so long deciding on a tree. So by the time we chose one, we had to use the flashlight app on Matt's iphone so we could see to cut the tree down...oh the memories.
But, we have a beautiful, fresh cut, Christmas tree in the end.
We have to string the lights on the tree?
It doesn't come pre-lit?
Poor dad...
Decorating begins. All the kids have their favorite ornaments they like to put on the tree year after year. So the first thing they do when I get the ornaments out, is dive in, find their favorites and make their piles. Silly kids!
Cora does love to pose
The boys liked playing with some flashlights they found more then decorating the tree.
That's ok, they thoroughly inspected the tree for any critters that might be hiding in it
Inspector Hunter
Inspector Jack
Dad always puts the star on the top.
Our beautiful tree.
all the breakable ornaments are on the top, so the boys can't get them...maybe next year the tree will be decorated more evenly?
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