"OH" Christmas Tree!

 How big do we really think this tree is??

 WOW -- HUGE!!!  Kate can barely reach to put the decorations on

 Ben is rocking the ornaments, with much help from our good friend Kara on the lights.

 "TA - DA"  Cairney Christmas Tree - 2012

 

We try to keep things as entertaining as we can at this house...and picking out the tree is no exception  (-;  This year, while doing some shopping at costco, I noticed that they had some fresh trees for sale. "How easy would this be? Picking up the tree along with milk and the other weekly items??" I knew that it was not going to be some memory making event (like when we have chopped it down at the tree farm), but little did I know, this tree would be monumental too! We got our ticket, put the seats down in the van and headed toward the trailer.  The tree expert asked us how tall we wanted it in the 7-9ft. range, I said "at least 8-9 ft - we have a large room and high ceilings".  Unbeknownest to me, not only was it a TALL tree but also very WIDE and we had no idea about this until we cut all of the twine and it just kept unfolding!  It definitely caused all of us to chuckle and reminded many of us of the Christmas vacation movie.  Take note of the weights on the bottom of the tree stand.  Doug graciously donated these off of his weight bench for 5 weeks since it did tip over once(prior to lights and decorations -- thank you God!) at about midnight one evening. Believe it or not, Doug and I were even able to laugh about this!!!  (-;

Once lit, decorated and securely in place, despite the ENORMOUS size...this is probably the most perfect, beautiful tree that we have had.  Like the song says, "Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree, how beautiful your branches!"