O Christmas Tree!

I admit, I am a stickler for real Christmas trees. In fact, the year my mom switched to a fake tree (my senior year of high school), my boyfriend bought me a real one for my room so that I could still have one! That's how much I LOVE Christmas real trees. I remember as a little kid driving up to the mountains with my family and the little blue trailer being pulled behind us to put the tree, along with some snow so that we could build a snowman in the front yard in Mesa.

Well, Mike has supported me in my real tree obsession, but we haven't quite made it out to the forest yet - one of these years we want to, but we always seem to forget about it until after the drawing for Christmas trees is over. For those of you not from Arizona, you can't just go out to the forest and pick any random tree and cut it down - you have to get a permit for a specific area of the forest. Anyway, I digress... We went over to Home Depot one afternoon in the beginning of December after Mike got off work (because, for those of you wondering, Home Depot has the best prices for Christmas trees). I hemmed and hawed over which tree was the prettiest and tall enough and round enough, but not too round, and full enough, but not too full... and finally we found a perfect tree for our house. We learned this year that it's much easier to get a tree home with an SUV than with a car. MUCH easier. So off we went to decorate and celebrate the wonderful Christmas season!

I want this one, Daddy!