Real Tree

After wanting one for the past few years and saying “next year,” “next year,” “next year…” we got a real tree this year!

I love it. It smells good, it looks good, the kids were super excited about it, and it just looks happier in here. Sure it’s messier than a fake tree, but with two little ones I need to vacuum at the end of every day anyways. 😉

I made some a lot of these for the tree:

had Lowe’s guy cut off a piece of the stump to make these (found in Dec’s BHG),

and will be using Laura at Finding Home’s technique to make some of my newish ornaments vintagey:

We need to make snowflakes.

My dad scored us some free Christmas lights and rescued them from the garbage (the old glass C9’s just like I wanted!). So for the first year, we have lights on our house. 🙂

Doug made an awesome village scene (but that deserves it’s own post).

You can’t see our tree yet because I still need to add the remainder of the ornaments.

But this is hilarious 🙂