Our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

It's hard to believe that this our third year putting up a Christmas tree together! Where has the time gone?!?! It's one of my favorite memories with Ryne and I always look forward to it every year.

Each year we find a tree that tends to have a certain Charlie Brown flair to it. Some years the flair has been more pronounced than others (e.g. last year we had to trim some limbs off from the tree so that it would fit in the tree stand which resulted in the tree having a great big hole on one side!). This year we found plenty of Charlie Brown trees to pick from but even they were just a little too Charlie Brownish for us. After failing to find a suitable tree in Chadron we decided that we would find a tree when were up in the Black Hills. After much searching we finally found our tree. We brought it back to Chadron with us on Sunday and put it up that night. It seems that every year we always have major issues with the tree stand. I am not sure if the issue is us or the stand itself but without fail something always goes wrong (e.g. last year's tree). Well this year our problem had to do with the tree having a fairly small trunk. The small trunk made it hard for the screws of the stand to actually screw into the tree. We thought we had the tree all set and secure so we began stringing the lights. The next thing you know the tree is toppling over!!! Thankfully we caught and nothing was damanged. But this lead to a few stressful moments as we tried to figure out how to get the tree to stand firmly in the stand.

Ryne finally got the tree secured in the stand after much twisting and pounding. After we were satisfied that it was stable and not going to topple over again we went to work hanging our ornaments.




I have been collecting and making ornaments for our tree over the course of the year. I just love the personal touch that personalized ornaments have. I think this year's tree is our best looking yet. It turned out to be a beautiful tree and it smells so wonderful!!