Christmas Tree Saga

We went on our annual Christmas tree cutting down adventure the day after Thanksgiving again this year. Unfortunately, our normal spot was closed this year, so we went to a new place to snag our tree. That was our first mistake... :) 

Grandma and Dave ready to hunt down a tree.
















Riding in the back with Dave on the way to the farm.

We found our tree! Getting ready to cut it down.

Grandpa had to hold it on to the van so we could drive it up to pay for it.

Look at that beauty!

Grandpa Dave and my mom came to visit so we got a picture of him with the kids.












So fast forward about two weeks. We went to Evansville to visit family and came back to half the ornaments on the ground and a blanket of needles! Ahhhhh! We have never had trouble with our trees before (and we watered properly and all that stuff). Turns out we picked a Norway Spruce, which unbeknownst to us only usually last about a week or two. Fantastic right?

Part of the tree.














Taking it out of the house was a real treat...almost all of the needles fell off in the process, so by the time we got it outside it looked like this.

Yikes.









Thankfully we are getting a full refund on the tree, I just didn't have it in me to get another real tree this year, so I am so grateful for my friend Theresa letting me borrow an extra tree they had! Christmas decorating was saved :)

We will be back to buying a real tree again next year, but this time I'm going to do some more research on species of trees!!