So our busy schedule as of late should start to slow down some soon. I’m really looking forward to having the next several weeks off (from class)! Going to get a ton of stuff done around here including a WordPress Theme upgrade! We’re going to try to DIY it, so stay tuned. More importantly, we found some time to do some holiday decorating. Our Christmas trees are up!
This is the second or third year in a row that we’ve had an artificial tree as our main Christmas tree. It’s a nice quality pre-lit tree, which makes decorating it and taking it down loads easier. We stick with the artificial tree because of little paws and little hands. We had a real tree for the first couple years we were married. The first year we had the real tree AND Finegan, he tried to drink the tree water every chance he got. SO, add a baby to that equation and we’re going to be rocking the artificial tree for the foreseeable future. Lisa and I both grew up with real trees. You can’t beat a real tree. Love the smell and the whole picking one out experience. Looking forward to the days when we can do that again.
So, I mentioned trees, as in plural. We keep a small narrow tree in our living room so it’s visible from the road.
We have a couple personalized ornaments we’ve gotten over the years on this smaller tree.
Our main Christmas tree, which will be the one we keep our presents under and sit around on Christmas morning is in our family room.
If you look close, you may notice that only half of the tree has ornaments! There’s a good reason for that…
Yep, that’s right. We have a toddler that likes loves to rip the ornaments right off the branches. Lisa was smart about her ornament choices though and went with shatter proof plastic globes. That way there’s no possibility any glass ends up in pieces on the floor.
We have our mantel started, but not quite ready for prime time. More Christmas decor posts coming your way soon!
So if you celebrate Christmas, do you go for the real tree experience or do you opt for the fake??
