Until this year, Dave and I have never had a Christmas tree up on Christmas since we've been married. That means in three Christmases (this is our fourth), our house was cold, sad, and lonely and without any fun ornaments. It's a funny thing, too, because one of my family's Christmas traditions is to shop every year for an ornament for each family member. Then we put all of our ornaments on the Christmas tree. I'll admit, Dave and I haven't been the greatest at keeping up on the tradition, but the first Christmas we were married we did purchase some ornaments for our non-existent tree.
We were always sad that we didn't have a Christmas tree, and it seemed like every year we said was going to be the year that we bought a Christmas tree during the day-after Christmas clearances. Last year we finally made good on our plans and bought a pre-lit 7 1/2 foot tall Christmas tree off of Amazon.com. Even though we got it after Christmas, we put it up last year after it came in the mail. We left it up for around a week. It didn't have any ornaments (even though we had bought two ornaments two years before that).
This year we put up the Christmas tree during family night. It took us almost a week to finally begin spreading out the branches so that it looked nice. I spent an hour starting to make the branches look good, and Dave spent more time. Dave got the top part of the tree done (which is why the top part of the tree looks so much better than the rest) and then Megan decorated the tree. As said before, we didn't have very many ornaments. We were better about our tradition this year and we bought two more ornaments (for a total of four). We put our two new ornaments on the tree, but it looked really sad to say the least, so I braved the crowds on Saturday to finally buy more Christmas decorations. I was pleasantly surprised by all of the sales on Christmas ornaments. At Linens and Things I bought a bunch of "unbreakable" ribbon ornaments for the tree. (Although I don't really worry about Dave breaking the ornaments, in the future there will probably be other family members that will want to play with, eat, hit, and otherwise destruct any and all ornaments, decorations, or other items within their reach.) They were 70% off, so I got enough ornaments to decorate our tree with for a grand total of $15.00. I know, it's quite the investment, but they'll last for generations to come...
So, in celebration of our first Christmas actually having a tree up at our house, Dave and I decided to take some pictures for all to see, especially since you won't be able to see it in person. I also have taken some pictures of our ornaments that we picked out this year. I'll let you guess who picked out what ornament.
We were always sad that we didn't have a Christmas tree, and it seemed like every year we said was going to be the year that we bought a Christmas tree during the day-after Christmas clearances. Last year we finally made good on our plans and bought a pre-lit 7 1/2 foot tall Christmas tree off of Amazon.com. Even though we got it after Christmas, we put it up last year after it came in the mail. We left it up for around a week. It didn't have any ornaments (even though we had bought two ornaments two years before that).
This year we put up the Christmas tree during family night. It took us almost a week to finally begin spreading out the branches so that it looked nice. I spent an hour starting to make the branches look good, and Dave spent more time. Dave got the top part of the tree done (which is why the top part of the tree looks so much better than the rest) and then Megan decorated the tree. As said before, we didn't have very many ornaments. We were better about our tradition this year and we bought two more ornaments (for a total of four). We put our two new ornaments on the tree, but it looked really sad to say the least, so I braved the crowds on Saturday to finally buy more Christmas decorations. I was pleasantly surprised by all of the sales on Christmas ornaments. At Linens and Things I bought a bunch of "unbreakable" ribbon ornaments for the tree. (Although I don't really worry about Dave breaking the ornaments, in the future there will probably be other family members that will want to play with, eat, hit, and otherwise destruct any and all ornaments, decorations, or other items within their reach.) They were 70% off, so I got enough ornaments to decorate our tree with for a grand total of $15.00. I know, it's quite the investment, but they'll last for generations to come...
So, in celebration of our first Christmas actually having a tree up at our house, Dave and I decided to take some pictures for all to see, especially since you won't be able to see it in person. I also have taken some pictures of our ornaments that we picked out this year. I'll let you guess who picked out what ornament.
