Although I wanted to start decorating for Christmas the day after Halloween, I made it all the way till December 8th. We finally bought our Christmas tree! And I love it.
This is the first time in a long time that I've had a real tree, so I had no idea what kind of tree we wanted. The best I could suggest was, "maybe a fir?" Apparently, there are many types of "fir" trees. (Alex knew more about them because he used to sell them when he worked at Target a few years back.) So anyway, we powered through my tree ignorance and just went for it. I didn't like the floppy kind, or the too-light-colored kind. I wanted the "needles to go all around" instead of in one direction. (Does that make any sense?) Alex very patiently helped match my anti-descriptions to a real tree.
And then we found it. Its branches were strong enough, the color was right, the needles were perfect. It was a Noble Fir. (I'm trying NOT to remember the other kinds, because I want to remember what kind we liked next year.) We had it all picked out at Lowe's and then found out that they didn't have any more of the material they use to bundle it for transport. BUMMER. We had to get it up three flights of stairs, so bundling it was necessary, or we'd lose all the branches on the way up.
So, we went down the street to Home Depot and the hunt began again. At least this time I knew what kind we wanted. We went over to the Noble Fir section and began pulling trees out. Well, it was more of me saying, "Grab that one! What about that one? Can you reach tat one?" while Alex pulled, spun, and nicely put them back one by one. (I should mention that Amelia was a very patient tree-hunter, all comfy in a sling on my hip, until about the last 5 minutes.) Fortunately, we found a tree more beautiful than the first one I fell in love with. (It might not have been, but I didn't care. I liked it.) With the decision made, I took Amelia to the car and Alex took care of the tree buying/cutting/bundling.
On the way home, I did a quick Google search on my phone to see if there was anything special about taking care of a Noble Fir tree, and came across a website that said, "The Noble Fir is the Cadillac of Christmas trees." Well... YEAH! Of course I'd pick the Cadillac. It's small-ish, but it's still a Cadillac.
And here he is, in all his glory: Mr. Caddy
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| Like I said, small-ish, but a Caddy no less. :) And you can't tell in this photo, but there are WAY too many lights on this tree (yet still not enough!). I'm sort of a lights fanatic. |
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| This is from Amelia's point of view. |
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| So cute, right?! |
