Christmasy Things

Well, we have been a bit slow with the whole Christmas thing this year, but we are finally getting on track.  Last week we all piled in the van and drove out to get a tree.  The tree lot we went to was closed, so rather than drive around and find a new one, Lars drove to the local grocery store and picked out a Christmas tree as the rest of us sat in the car holding hands and singing Christmas carols.  (Did you believe that last part even for a minute?  Yeah, I'm a lousy liar.) 

After we got it home we realized we needed to saw off the bottom to make it even.  We couldn't find our saw.  In fact, we haven't seen a lot of things since we moved here.  This move was the first time I didn't stick around and supervise what actually made it into the truck and I'm starting to think that half of it got left behind!  Anyway, we ended up borrowing a lousy saw from our neighbors and it only took about an hour, a wedge, a hammer and finally a log splitter to get through the trunk of the tree.  No, we did not choose a 50 ft evergreen, we just had bad tools and poor lighting.

Eventually we got the tree inside and decorated, complete with a "shooting star" on top.  :)

 N putting the star on top

 L trying

 E taking a turn

 H finally getting the star on

...sort of :)