The Year of the Imperfect Christmas Tree

This year we decided that we would have an adventure and cut down our own Christmas tree. It was fun and we definitely picked out trees with their own personalities. Straight trunks were a luxury that we didn't find.

We cut down our tree last year and we learned a few things from that experience--like spray the tree for spiders before you bring it into the house and put the tree stands on outside where there is more room.

We always have great fun decorating our trees. We use the same ornaments every year. One tree is very eclectic and sentimental with ornaments we have collected and made over the years. Our second tree has heart ornaments and olive wood ornaments that I bought in Israel when I was there too many years ago. We decorate all together and laugh a lot as the ornaments bring back fun memories.

I love Christmas.

O Christmas Tree

We thought it would be fun to cut down our own christmas tree. Its something we've never really done before so we didn't know what to expect. We found a christmas tree farm about 20 minutes north of us.

We spent about 30 minutes walking around looking for the perfect tree. We found lots of Charlie Brown trees. We'll just say most of them had their own unique personalities. We finally found this tree. Its about 11 feet tall. The trees were cheaper as they got taller so we were looking for a REALLY tall one.

Actually we found two trees we liked so we got both.

Sarah thought this would make a good tree for next year. It still has a little bit of growing to do.

The next part of our adventure was actually getting little Ophelia (thats what we named it) to stand up straight. Much to our dismay her trunk seemed to have gone a little more crooked after the ride home.

Amelia promptly chewed this branch off of Hamlet (the other tree). Its a Shakespearian themed year.