For the last 3 or 4 years, we have gone to the Christmas tree farm to cut down our tree. Of course, the trees they have there are Texas "fake" pine trees that they trim into the shape of a Christmas tree They always look a little rough in the field, but once they are decorated they always look fine. The main problem we have with them is the fact that they are always so crooked. This year for whatever reason, they were really bad! I don't know if it was because of the drought, or just a randomly bad year - but we could not even find a decent one. They all looked great from far away, but when we would get up to them they looked awful! We noticed that they even spray painted them green this year, and you could see all the brown pine needles on the ground around it. It was very sad, but we finally decided just to leave and go to Houston Garden Center to get a "real" Christmas tree. Adilyn had a hard time understanding what was going on, but she was okay once we were on our way home with our beautifully straight, non-spray painted Fraser Fir. :)
Adilyn said, "I will chop this one down for my room."
Kacy was more interested in the ants than in looking for the perfect tree.
Santa is usually there, but he wasn't this year...one more reason to be disappointed! Cory and Adilyn decided to sit in his chair anyway and pretend.
Once we got home with the tree, the girls completely forgot about the Christmas tree farm failure and just had fun with all the decorations and trimming the tree. Since the whole ordeal had taken longer than expected, I had to get dinner started right when wegot home. I told Adilyn and Kacy that they could start decorating. About 10 minutes into it, Adilyn announced that they were finished decorating, and they just needed help putting the star on the top. This is what their finished product looked like. The bottom sure did look amazing!
I loved decorating the tree with the girls. Every time Adilyn opened an ornament, she would say, "Oh, I love this one!" or "I remember this one!" Every year it just gets more and more fun to celebrate this time of year with the girls! After some "reorganizing" of the ornaments, and actually using the other 75% of the ornaments that the girls didn't think were needed the tree ended up looking just beautiful! I always love getting a different tree every year because of the funny stories we have trying to find one that is perfect for our holiday season. It always turns out to be an adventure!
What a perfect beginning to our holidays!
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