O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree!

Our family has started a new tradition of going to the rim the day after Thanksgiving to get cut down our Christmas tree.  We had so much fun playing in the snow.  OK-maybe not so much fun it was cold, the kids got wet, Thane got sick and poor Kristin was stuck baby-sitting for like 2 hours.  We are bad to leave her alone with all the kids.  I am so sorry Kristin.  I promise a full night of baby-sitting whenever you want.  So this year I needed a skinny tree to fit in a large corner of my house.  Nik has an eye for picking our trees so I was in love when she spotted our tree.  Tall and skinny just like Paisley.  We were the first to pick our tree.  It is so hard to find a good tree so about 3 hours later the remainder of the trees were selected.  We loaded up the trailer and headed back to town.  One by one as we unloaded each individual tree I thought WOW!  They all picked out large and full trees.  Our tree was one of the last trees since we live in Queen Creek.  When my dad pulled out our tree my mom about peed her pants.  Here we have this stick with a few twigs.  It looked nothing like it looked in the forest.  The next morning we took a better look at and decided it looked too much like a Charlie Brown Xmas tree.  So we put up my tall and skinny fake tree.  I love my fake tree.  I feel awful we cut down a tree so if anyone knows of someone that likes sparse trees it is in our garage sitting in water waiting for a home.  If we don't have someone to claim it we will make a wreath and put the rest in our fire pit.  I know so cruel.  Here are a few photos from the day and of our tree.