This year we had to get a new Christmas Tree...old one was ruined in the "great basement flood of 2011". I took this as a great sign to start plugging for a real tree...and got voted down :( Jeremy's complaint about a real tree is the needles falling off, and it is just too much work! I feel very partial to real trees and think fake ones look plastic like. The whole fam went off to Mernards to pick out the perfect FAKE tree. Jeremy picked one out while I grabbed a few boxes of lights to help spruce it up.
The next morning we started the process of putting up the tree. The kids helped Jeremy put each plastic branch on the metal stem, we fluffed the tree out, cleaned up all of the plastic needles all over the floor and then sat back and I heard Jeremy say...."You were right we should have gotten a real tree"...to which I replied "Could you just say that first part one more time?" :) Next year his plan is real tree upstairs and fake tree down, I may need to get him on tape saying this so he doesn't back out of the plan in 11 months.
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| Putting up the tree |
Ellie and Owen had so much fun decorating the tree. We have many ornaments on the bottom of the tree and a few branches have more than one ornament on them, but it looks great! Owen had a difficult time remembering that ornaments are not balls that we whip across the room...I would say 2-3 were broken by him throwing them. He has since only broken 2 more and seems to leave the tree along for the most part.
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| Christmas Tree 2011 |
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| My 2 Favorite Ornaments |
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| Take 1 |
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| Take 2 |
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| Take 3 |
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