First Christmas Tree

With 3-6 inches of snow forecast for Thurs-Fri, we decided to head back to the tree farm early to collect our Christmas tree. We had originally planned for Saturday, Dec 7th, but we didn't want to take a 30 minute drive, in potentially 6 inches of snow and ice. So Wednesday afternoon we headed over to the tree farm to pick up our very first Christmas tree.

We got there in good time and it was a whole 10 degrees warmer than on our last visit - but still cold at 43 degrees. We took another haywagon ride over to the trees:

Jon picked up a saw and we went to find our tree. I found it first and pretty quickly too. Jon got to work chopping it down:

(In his slacks and dress shoes)

Lauren was right to suggest we reserve one in advance, I noticed that a lot of trees had already been cut down and what was left was almost all reserved. This was December 4th.

Empty spaces and pink reserved ribbon

We carried the tree back to the haywagon and returned the saw. The wagon took us back to the front where the staff took the tree, shook off the dead needles with a machine, drilled holes for the tree base and wrapped the tree up. We just had to get in the truck (we borrowed the Chevy from Sue) and drive it round to the front of the lot where the staff then put the tree in the back. We were good to drive home!

We made it home in good time again and hauled the 6ft tree up 3 flights of stairs to our apartment. Jon put the tree in the base, watered it and cut off the wrap:

Then I got the tree skirt and vacuumed up the needles:

Presenting our first Christmas tree!

I love our tree and the pine smell! It was late by this time and I had to fix dinner so I left trimming it until Thursday. That will be featured in an upcoming post.