It snowed!!...for a whole 5 minutes...

It's that time of year!!

Although I tend to spend all of my Christmas shopping money on the Christmas decorations....after the tree, the lights, the decorations for the tree, the stockings, the stocking hanger (now that we have a fire place and mantle), Christmas cards (that I promised myself I will fill out AND get them in the mail this year)...whew....

Growing up we have always had a real tree, they smell so good and I think they are just prettier.

So we went Tree hunting on Saturday...went to a nursery as opposed to the grocery store where we got one last year. Kyle knows the owner....lets be honest, who doesn't he know??

Picked out a great tree! It was leaning a little on the lot, but figured it was just how it was in the stand. Bought the tree, bought the special tree stand from the lot and we were off!

Took us about an hour to get the tree set up....the nursery drills a hole in the bottom of the trunk and there is a spike in the stand that the tree sits on. So it wasn't the stand that was making the tree lean...it was the hole drilled in the tree!

After Kyle got a mallet and some shims (?) to straighten out the tree, I filled the stand with water. After putting a pitcher full of water in the stand, I noticed a slow leak! I guess after we banged and twisted the tree and the stand, we damaged the stand and now it won't hold water.

After digging around in the garage I found some caulk and a caulking gun and then soaked up the water out of the stand so we could caulk our tree stand.

Everyone having fun yet?!?!? It was an all day event.

But finished decorating it today and filled the stand up with water and so far so good, Boomer even curled up underneath it...too bad I didn't have the camera ready.

Next week outside lights!! We were going to do it this weekend...but the tree wore us out and I didn't have the heart to ask Kyle to do anything else!

Wish us luck!!