This year, we broke a longstanding family tradition of purchasing our Christmas tree from a retail parking lot. While this has served us well in past years, last Christmas, we brought one home to discover it had been spray painted a lovely shade of aqua.
So, at my friend Dawn’s suggestion, we hit up a local tree farm after the Christmas parade last Saturday. We rode a hay rack out to the field, something that thrilled the girls.
Actually, it thrilled all of the girls…
Once we got there, though, I remembered that I really prefer to shop by myself. I am rather picky and indecisive, and this was no exception. We started out just fine, but we didn’t see eye-to-eye for very long.
Ava wanted this Charlie Brown beauty:
I had my sights set a little higher…I thought it would look perfect in our foyer.
Bryan wanted something he didn’t need a flatbed trailer to haul home and Olivia just wanted a nap.
We finally decided on this one, which while not very large, it is maybe the prettiest tree we’ve ever had.
The crew cut it down and loaded it back on the hay rack for us.
On Sunday we set to decorating, with a few new and sparkly ornaments….
And some old favorites.
I even ended up with a tree for the foyer:
Merry Christmas!
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