O Christmas Tree

Unfortunately our December started off a little rough. For a second year in a row we have had a family member pass away in December. Unfortunately Jeremy's grandfather passed away Thursday night. We had many plans for the weekend which we quickly cancelled to go be with his family. One of the things was to go pick out our Christmas tree, which we decided this year to start doing the cut your own and having the kids help pick it out. We decided to quickly do this before leaving town. Luckily a guy just down the road from us (literally we could drag the tree home), had some of the cut your own. So after the trip to the dump we went tree hunting. The tree did not look huge outside but once we got it home it was HUGE!
Here it is...it did end up "naked" for awhile, but did eventually get lights and a few ornaments...
The kids helping daddy pick the "one"...

Timber.....

This is with the tree laying on it's side...

Daddy trimming a little off the bottom...

Liz and Zach requesting a picture with them hold twigs in front of them...

and Alex playing with a branch not needed...

Zach is the chilc that will always find alternative uses for items...like the ring from the tree stand...

Here it comes...stand back!