Our First Christmas Tree

Christmas time is here!  And it's been here for a while in this Smith home.  We've been playing Christmas music on Sunday's for weeks.  I remember right after Nate got home from his mission we went to Cedar Point together and listened to Michael Buble's Christmas album...it was August.

So Nate researched Christmas trees and boy are they expensive.  With his love of Christmas decorations, there was no way we were getting a Charlie Brown tree.  He found one on ebay that was a sweet deal so we bought it!  Here's a lovely "before" picture of the plain tree.  I'm actually pretty impressed with how thick it is!

Yesterday for fhe we went shopping for decorations.  Let's just say...it was an adventure.  We literally spent over an hour looking up and down aisles.  First at Michael's where we got the flowers and ribbon and then at Walmart where we got the ornaments.  We went back and forth on colors, what flowers to get, what size ornaments, how much of each color...everything.  BUT I do think the tree turned out PERFECT.  I really can't even imagine it looking any better.  It's a good thing I married someone with an eye for decorating because there's no way I could have done something like this on my own.  To my credit, I did pick the colors and the snowflake ornaments.  Now we just have to make one that looks this good every year....