Our Christmas Tree

For family night we went and picked out our Christmas tree. This proved to be a little harder than we had initially thought. Apparently everyone in Katy Texas has a fake tree. Well maybe not everyone but most everyone. In Utah there are Christmas tree lots everywhere. I'm not exaggerating when I say everywhere. You can pick your real Christmas tree up at a lot near any grocery store, or on just about any other corner of a major intersection (that maybe lacking a grocery store). In Katy we found one place, thank heavens we get the Sunday paper even though it rarely gets read. So off we went. I was a little disappointed at first because they don't seem to have the "Taryn" Christmas trees in this state. After some looking a found a few what most would call, "Charlie Brown" trees but they were all so short. In the end I think we found the perfect tree for us this year. It did take us a little while to find it, and then we had to run to Target to get light. So we didn't decorate the tree until the next night.

Dad and Isaac putting lights on the tree (yes colored lights believe it or not) what goofs.

Beckam hung out in the fireplace during the light stringing.

Don't ask me why the blue lights show up so much better in the pictures than the rest but they do.

All finished!!

We even put lights on the house.

It was a year of firsts for us starting with the decorating. Fat tree, colored lights, house lights... For those of you who really know me you need no explanation for this but if you don't know. I have from birth been oppose to fat trees and colored lights. What you'll do for your kids. I loved our tree this year. It was very strange to have Sam put the lights up his way and let the boys run the show as far as decorating but I loved every minute of it. I got over my want for a second tree almost as soon as they got started.