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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Posted by Dawn on December 11, 2009 at 8:24 pm
It’s really a great experience to go to the tree farm. I’m glad you enjoyed it so much!
Posted by Karyl on December 11, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Beautiful, Rebecca! Makes me very sorry that we have resorted to a ‘plastic’ tree! We had so many fun adventures getting real trees – the place we have gone to in the past 5 years served hot cocoa and took our pictures! I miss that! I also miss cutting down trees at the farm – and using the tops of some very large trees. We, sometimes, had to devote an entire room for the tree because it was so big. But, back then, we did not have much furniture!
Merry Christmas!
BTW – how did you get those snowflakes to appear on the website?
Posted by Rebecca's Mom on December 12, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Is the pink angel ornament the one Grampa and Gramma Great gave you for your first Christmas? Very pretty tree!
Posted by Rebecca on December 12, 2009 at 2:23 pm
It is! I still have the original box–Gramma wrote that it was for my first Christmas and noted the date. It’s very sweet. I put out some of my annual ornaments, but I leave the glass balls boxed up. The rest are attached up high with hooks that are looped around the branches a few times.
Posted by irolwolerts14 on December 23, 2009 at 7:59 am
Your tree is beautiful. It brought tears to my eyes. I will have to show it to Maddy and maybe she’ll get over her blue and silver obsession for our Christmas tree.