Oh Christmas Tree
It’s hard to believe, but there are only 25 more shopping days left until Christmas and the holidays are in full swing. Wednesday night, we actually managed to get Madeline to sit with Santa without too much fussing (OK, OK, we bribed her with a stuffed penguin). And today we headed out to Linvilla Orchards to chop our tree.
Madeline really enjoyed the hayride, but was not too enamored with the tree selection process. Once we had chosen our tree, we headed back, roasted a few marshmallows and had some warm apple cider. Nevermind the fact that it was sixty degrees out; warm apple cider is good in any weather! After that, we visited with the animals and Madeline got to pet and feed the horses, which was quite a thrill.
We then proceeded to bring the tree home, where Daddy realized that he either underestimated the size of the tree or overestimated the size of our house. One broken tree stand later, we are the proud owners of a rather large Christmas tree. Well, at least there’s plenty of room under there for an iPhone (and plenty of princess stuff, of course)!
on November 30th, 2009 at 9:47 am Brian said:
Haha, nice! Sounds like a fun time.
I have another friend (who will remain nameless) who did the same thing with his tree and has scratches on his living room ceiling to prove it!
on November 30th, 2009 at 8:40 pm Grandmom said:
We’ll trade you trees….somehow our artificial tree is smaller than it was last year… I think we lost a section…I guess the Grinch has been in the neighborhood…