Kris and i decided that we needed to start a new Family tradition this year! I thought we could go take a lovely little ride though the mountains and delightfully pick out a cute little Christmas tree and quickly put it up in our house, decorated, all in one day. I guess there are days I forget who I'm married to! :) We drove and drove I kept saying, "hey that looks good", "what about that one". Kris kept saying "no, I'll know when I see it. When a beam of light hits it and Angels sing....that will be it"! I guess he finally heard Angels because this is what we came home with.
After two hours of messing with it in the front yard. Kris wanted to wrap it up, set it up and "open" the tree in the house. (like on Christmas Vacation) So we wrapped and tied and lifted and FINALLY carried it in the house. We realized it was too tall for our 18 ft living room so we had to drag it back outside, unwrap, cut more, re-wrap and drag it back in. 8th times a charm because we got that thing stood up! It was just a magical as Kris wanted. We may have had scars from being whipped in the face with pine branches and literally sticking to everything because of the sap but it was worth it! It took a week to decorate, not because it was that huge but because we had to go to Target like 5 times to get more light strands. it took 6 regular strands and one 60ft spool to cover this dang thing. we still could have used one more strand at the top. In the end this has been my favorite tree we've ever had. Definitely a tradition we will carry on.
Kris with his decorated trophy! :) (this picture doesn't do it "size" justice. It's HUGE!)
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That is awesome! haha you guys are so funny, it turned out amazing and I love the bucket.
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