This year we got our Christmas tree at Home Depot. Which makes me a little sad because I really enjoy the hours of agonizing over which of a thousand identical trees is the just the right one. Unfortunately the trees in Texas are terrible and Costco wasn’t selling, so we went to the hardware store. On the upside it came with a 90 day return policy which might come in hand if we don’t need a Valentine’s Day tree.
The kids had a great time decorating it just the same. They were almost busting at the seams to get the ornaments out of the boxes.
We let them do nearly all of the decorating.
So we had a little bit of bunching …
To encourage a more even distribution Amber and I got involved.
And of course we needed our traditional tree topper, a large glass snowman.
While Amber was up north we added some chains with the “lick-and-stick” paper that YaYa sent. The kids liked putting them together better than I would have expected and I really like how they look on the tree. Wesley wanted to send a photo of the tree to YaYa so we took this one (J was asleep).
After the chains we did tinsel. I don’t know what we were thinking. The kids loved it of course. We’ll probably need to buy a new vacuum cleaner after sucking up all the extra from the floor.
And of course the final product:
