Oh, Christmas Tree

So, today was a day I looked forward to all week. The bulk of a large paper was done, I was to leave work early last night and spend the day putting up Christmas. My school schedule has really put a dent in my free time--so no Christmas decorations are up yet. Well..best laid plans. I ended up staying thru the night at work, slept 4 (a half) hours according to Greg. We then headed out to Meijer to get tree stuff. I have never had a real tree. I am supposed to say real as opposed to live, I guess, since there is no root ball. This is a sore point for me. I ultimately want a live tree that I can plant in the spring. Since our yard has enough trees, I will wait and do that at the next house. For now I try to ease the guilt with plans of recycling the tree. So we went to a lot and picked a great tree. It was so fun going through them. Really tall ones, squat ones. I took great delight in finding one. Greg and I agreed on one as the kids ran around the field. A big open space is all it takes to keep them happy! The guys there trimmed the bottom, netted it, put it in our stand and loaded it. We cleared a space at home and brought it in. I now understand the term, "trim a treee". I did eventually trim part of it--unfortunately I realized I could do this after I had put the lights on--so a strand of lights got trimmed too. Oops. So it is majestic and magnificent and has plenty of water. I love it!!!!!

Ryan found one too, about 2 feet tall--it's adorable. The Thomas the Tank Christmas ornaments are now on it along with a strand of blue lights he picked out. The high point for him though, was picking out the star for it. He was quite dismayed I wouldn't put a star on our tree. Ours is topped with a Boyd Bear topper from Megan. It will always top the tree. So Ryan has one of his own. He named his tree too..it's Thomas.