The fall decorations are back in the attic. The pumpkins are tossed into the woods.
The lights have been pulled out.
The tree is filled with glory. We like to get it up as soon as possible. How about you?
We're early birds. We usually choose-n-cut in the NC mountains over the Thanksgiving weekend; haul it home, and have it glowing by Tuesday. This year, because of the way the calendar landed Thanksgiving, we had it up before December!
Here are a few highlights from our Thanksgiving weekend:
I overcame my unfortunate event from the last time we were in the mountains and got back on the horse. Literally.
My mom and I have to remind the men that tree shopping is an EVENT. It's more about the experience and the photo op than the finished product. After all, it's hard to find an ugly tree in Ashe County.
I realized that this will probably be our last Christmas before a couple of my kids pass me up in height. Wow. They sure grow up fast!
Here's what I want to know:
Do you do a live or artificial tree?
When do you decorate your tree?
10 comments:
We go artificial...decorated last weekend! Hope you guys can come see it soon!
A couple years ago my husband bought me an artificial tree for my Birthday.....he was tired of the "fun" of finding the perfect treee with 4 girls! ha! Thanksgiving weekend the tree goes up usually!
My husband was a firefighter, so no real trees allowed for us. Bummer for me since I've never had a real tree. :( We don't usually decorate until about two weeks before Christmas. The cats enjoy the bulbs too much!
I like the new blog header! We do 3 fake trees. One "pretty" one downstairs, one with the collected ornaments upstairs, complete with a gift or two from you! and a Jessie tree for our Advent devotions. Usually the decorating happens Thanksgiving weekend, but this year we traveled to family and a tree is making it up tonight and it is not my tree. I am feeling a bit Grinch like at the moment, maybe tomorrow will bring a new perspective!
LOVE the color lights! I tried to score some at end of year sales last Christmas and they were SOLD OUT. They cast such a warm glow though-it's cozier than white I think! Hopefully next year we'll be joining you on the color light bandwagon :).
We put our tree up before Thanksgiving. For me, once the Macy's day parade is over on Thanksgiving Day and Santa rolls thru I'm ready for the season :). don't hate me :) LOL
I never have commented, so I guess that makes me a lurker. That sounds bad and I don't want to be thought of that way, so I will start commenting.
I like your new photo!
We also get our tree in the NC mountains. We have a family tradition to stop in Sparta, NC on the Saturday after Thanksgiving on the way home from visiting my family in East TN. We always eat at Brown's Diner, watch the Christmas parade and then head over to Edwards Tree Farm and pick out a tree. This year we got the biggest tree we have ever bought. They don't look so big growing on the side of a hill! It's so big it kind of scares me every morning when I come downstairs!
I love reading your sweet blog.
Ours is artificial and we decorate the day after Thanksgiving. AND...while I am as southern as they come, we have always had multi-colored lights. Because kids love them and they are much more fun to look at when I take out my contacts. ;)
Congrats on the horse ride! So happy to see you back in the saddle...pain free!
Artificial ever since the babies were born. I always wanted real when I was growing up, but now that I'm the one vacuuming the carpet...I understand why my mom wasn't a fan.
I sure do wish I had the smell of real but Bath and Body Works makes some wall flowers pretty close (And I get a few cuttings from a tree lot to tuck around the house for a real smell.)
Maybe once I don't have children young enough to have a desire to touch it every time they pass by (and old enough to help out with the vacuuming) we will try out a real one :)
I can't help but notice your Christmas Tree pictures.....love the lights. Beautiful photography!
REAL because my Momma told me that was how we should do it. So we do :) I buy 2 real trees, one for our family, one for her b/c she lives with Jesus now and left me with all of her massive ornament collection :) I can't imagine doing it any other way. I totally agree with you Gretchen! The tree picking is an event. Its my absolute favorite event of the Christmas season :)
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