Trimming the Tree

This year we debated about buying a real tree or an artificial one(We had a bit of a mishap with our tree last year and I was worried we would repeat it).  The selection looked slim at our usual place of purchase, it seemed to far to drive to gamble on a tree farm out of state, and all the artificial ones looked...well kind of drab (and way overpriced).  As soon as Thanksgiving was over the kids were ready for a tree and we still hadn't found one.  So I gave them a choice to put up their little trees or wait for the big one.  No surprise they wanted to put up their own trees.  So we opened the much anticipated ornament box, and let them deck the trees.  Sadi's of course is pink, pink, pink!

The deal was their trees had to go in their rooms and Chase was more than thrilled with this idea(although he thinks he needs some extra presents to go under it).

 Kelsey's tree is the most full with ornaments from years past.

We started a tradition (or rather Matt had a tradition when I moved out here that we adopted) of letting the kids pick out an ornament each year to put on the tree.  We have had a dispute for quite a few years now about one ornament in particular.  Kelsey swears it is hers.....as does Chase.  To be honest I'm not sure whose it is, but every year it is the same feud.  We pull out the box, we talk about whose we think it is, we pull out photos from Christmas past trying to prove who it belongs too.  We have narrowed it down to which year it came from, however in all photos from that year both kids are blocking their trees so you can't tell whose tree it is on.  So...for the past few years it goes back and forth from tree to tree.  We are now photo journaling ornaments......

We did eventually find a gorgeous tree a few days later, a real one, and it smells amazing!  Of course I had lots of helpers decorating this tree too.