It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Ryne and I decorated our Christmas tree tonight and it looks beautiful! Over his lunch break we went looking for our tree since it was supposed to start snowing later in the afternoon. The first place we went had lots of trees but some of them were spray painted. We were sure if this was done to make the trees look more green or if was something to help preserve the trees. At any rate we decided to check out a few other places. The next place we went to had the most beautiful trees but they were so pricy!! In the end we found our Charlie Brown tree and paid a reasonable price for it!

Putting up our tree was not as simple or easy as we thought it might be! After a fresh cut on the tree, the trunk was now too short and the tree would not stand up in the stand. Poor Ryne had to go back out into the cold and snow and keep sawing off branches. In the end we were able to get the tree in the stand (although our tree now had an interesting shape to it and a rather big hole in the back!). Despite our tree's new look, we both felt that this made our tree even more Charlie Brown like!! We got the tree decorated in no time and we were able to sit back and enjoy it on the couch with a glass of wine. Decorating our tree is one of my favorite memories with Ryne!