Last weekend Jon and I got our Christmas Tree up. It turned out to be a bit more of an ordeal than we had intitally intended.
Let me tell you the story.....
So I really like to have live Christmas trees, my family always did growing up and somehow it doesn't seem like Christmas without a real tree. So Jon was kind and patient enough to humor me, but this year we decided that it would be more fun to go cut down a Christmas Tree. Since I'm not up for hiking around the mountains at this point, we went to a Christmas Tree Farm in Layton to pick our tree. It was really fun and we found a tree that "spoke" to us. So we cut it down and Jon carried it about a 1/4 mile back to the car and then put it on the top (the people at the Farm were REALLY impressed with my strong and kind of crazy husband who carried the tree that far!). Then we drove back to SLC-- on the freeway-- with the tree on top-- we got lots of funny looks.
Let me tell you the story.....
So I really like to have live Christmas trees, my family always did growing up and somehow it doesn't seem like Christmas without a real tree. So Jon was kind and patient enough to humor me, but this year we decided that it would be more fun to go cut down a Christmas Tree. Since I'm not up for hiking around the mountains at this point, we went to a Christmas Tree Farm in Layton to pick our tree. It was really fun and we found a tree that "spoke" to us. So we cut it down and Jon carried it about a 1/4 mile back to the car and then put it on the top (the people at the Farm were REALLY impressed with my strong and kind of crazy husband who carried the tree that far!). Then we drove back to SLC-- on the freeway-- with the tree on top-- we got lots of funny looks.
The problem started when we tried to set the Christmas tree up in our front room and realized that we had picked a really funny shaped Christmas tree- kind of short and incredibly thick and fat!We couldn't find a way to make it and our couches fit in the same room.
So after several hours of thinning and pruning our Christmas tree-- I don't think that is exactly what is meant by "trimming" the tree, but that is what we had to do!-- we finally got him to fit nicely. We still can't open our front door all the way, the love seat is in the way, but it is only for a month!
It sure makes our home feel like Christmas! And we are excited for Buster to see his very first Christmas Tree!
1 comment:
I love your guy's christmas tree! :) and i think the short and fat christmas tree is perfect for the occasion (since heather is relatively short and relatively fat at the moment ;) i love you guys! hopefully i'll see all three of you in a week!
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