Christmas Tree shopping

After a wonderful trip to the Great Wolf Lodge, we got to spend Friday getting our tree and decorating our house. It was very cold and frosty, which started off being great, but as it thawed the mud showed up, so we ended up having to take the kids shoes off as they got into the car.

The kids get the same great joy out of National Lampoons Christmas Vacation as we do so they ran around pointing at huge trees saying, "Dad, that tree wouldn't fit in our yard."

Evan didn't quite get the idea, but he thought it was funny that daddy would always say "It's not going in our yard, Russ. It's going in our living room." Evan's comment "I'm not Russ. I'm Evan"

Riley's tree wasn't too bad actually.

I think this one might have been a bush!

We decided to take a family picture next to the tree that we chose, but...

this ended up not even being the tree we cut down. We noticed after this pic that it had about 4 tops to it, so we looked for another tree. I was just too lazy to carry the camera and tripod around, so we didn't get another one next to our real tree. :-}


The kids had a fun time making lots of decorations.

By Saturday night, our tree was both straight and decorated. The straight part took us quite awhile. Some people in our house just must have crooked heads!

I had fun playing around taking pictures of the tree after it was all done.

I love having the house decorated for Christmas. Why is it that we have to take them down? Do you think it is possible that if we left them up all year the Spirit of Christmas would stick around AND our friends wouldn't think we were crazy? We'd certainly have to get a fake tree then! Hope you are all enjoying this season as much as our family is. ~Pam~