Christmas Tree!

We really wanted to cut our own Christmas tree this year...so we did!! We actually got it a couple of weeks ago (the beginning of Dec.) and it's a funny story! We didn't find any trees at the first stop so we drove around and found another tree farm and set out hiking around to find the perfect tree! Well, they were pretty picked over and we were deciding to just buy one already cut. Then we found one that looked pretty good. It needed to be cut about 1/4 of the way up the tree because it was so big but we got it down! It was so big and heavy that Andrew almost killed himself dragging it through the snow! When we were checking out they said it was going to be $50 (which is a lot for a tree up here and surprised us b/c we saw that the trees were all $28 at the most) but that's b/c we picked the most expensive one that was charged per foot. So we made it home and realized we had to cut about another 2-3 feet off (remember we payed for those feet!!!) Well, we got it set up and as we were decorating we realized it wasn't a very nice tree at all!! It's very scragly and thin at the top! We tried trimming and shaping it and did the best we could. We were really upset that night because we could have bought a perfect really nice tree for a lot less but really wanted to cut it (even though the selection wasn't good!). We are laughing about it now though. I guess this is just our "Charlie Brown" year!!!