First REAL Tree!

This year we cut our first real tree.
When we got married, we bought a fake tree from Fred Meyer and have been using it every year since. I have liked it because I can put it up as early as I want and leave it up as long as I want. I don't have to plan to go out and get one, its always waiting for me when I want it. It was a small, 7' pine. It worked well for us for the last 8 years, but since moving onto a tree farm, we can no longer get away with a fake.......
A friend of ours gave me a tree stand she had laying around, so no excuse there.
Marshall and I went out on Friday and walked every inch of our property. We looked at every tree. Found a few we really liked. Then as we were coming back up to the house to get the saw we decided on one we had in our yard landscape. It is perfect!

Marshall the Tree Farmer! Getting ready to cut our tree.

It did not look that big out in our yard. We measured the height, and the width. But when you go to bring it in....well that's another story!

The kids loved it and were so excited to start decorating it!

Here with the final product! Its a good thing we have moved up to a bigger tree, we have a ton of ornaments!!!

I am so happy with our decision to bring a fresh tree into our house. And it was so nice to just go in the back yard and cut it down!

Now we will see how I do in the watering department!