Oh Christmas Tree!!

Monday we went to pick up our Christmas tree. We decided we would save a little money and go to Lowes to see Grandpa and pick up the tree. Well, they were just too skinny for us!! Our corner that the tree goes in requires a nice round tree, so we couldn't get one (but the kids loved seeing all the inflatables in Lowes and sang Jingle Bells all the way from Tool World to the garden center). We went to our good old trusty Simpson tree stand (we get our pumpkins here too) and got our tree. Let me tell you, Monday was so windy - we were freezing. We took pictures in front of one tree, then another, and then we ended up getting the third one I liked, and guess what - no pictures in front of the tree that we got!!! AGH!! Oh well, it was so cold we were running as fast as we could through all the trees - Harper was the only one the cold wasn't bothering! The guys strapped it to the top of the van - the girls thought that was funny. I kept an eye on it, it was moving all over the place with that wind, but we made it home.

Harper found a rock - look a tree, that we didn't get!!!

Carly decorating the tree for the first time!! They have never been allowed to touch the Christmas tree until this year. We put Harper to bed and then they put the ornaments on. They did pretty good, but couldn't get too high!! Later that night we were checking out the tree and noticed one branch had 5 ornaments on it. So we have been having to redo some of them! It was so fun and we thoroughly enjoyed watching our kids have so much fun this Christmas!

Chloe on the steps - she thought she was pretty cool putting ornaments on that high