O Christmas Tree

We got a Christmas tree!!! I was so excited for this day to come. Jeremy has been a little apprehensive, because he was starting to wonder where his extremely frugal wife went for the Christmas season. I told him I was going to get a few Christmas decorations and we were getting a tree. :) I didn't spend very much at all though, and I really only got a couple of things and now that everything is up he loves it and is really glad we did it. He just kept saying, "this is our first Christmas in our house, we don't have to do everything". But we didn't do everything. Don't worry. I got everything, including the tree, tree stand, lights, ornaments, etc. for under $100. I think that's pretty good. I don't shop much, because I don't enjoy it and I hate spending money, so when I do, I make sure I get a good deal. :)

Anyway, so we went to get a tree last night for family night. I couldn't remember ever going to one of those pre-cut pick up your tree places, so I was excited. We always went to a place where you have to cut it down yourself. (Which was always really fun too). Anyway, so we went to a couple places to find the best deal and we found our perfect tree. We asked the guy to take a picture of us and he kindly obliged. Our first tree!

So then we came home and decorated! (Well after we set up the tree and watered it of course). We had the perfect amount of lights and ornaments, so I was glad. We decided to put the tree in our "red room" because it looks so Christmas-y. Maybe next year I'll convince Jeremy to get a 9-footer (haha, right).


Here's a somewhat fuzzy picture with the light off. It looks so pretty!


And our bookshelf in that room has a little nativity from Jon's mission in Paraguay and a "noel" I made at an enrichment last year. And then our real first Christmas tree down in the bottom left corner (haha). We got that at the dollar store a few years ago.


And this is on top of our TV cabinet thing. We collected a bunch of pine cones in Tahoe this last week so those big ones are beautiful and real. I also got some medium and little ones for our wreath on the front door and the garland on the mantle.


On our piano. My mom got me those cute nutcrackers last year. Thanks mom! And I helped make that little nativity with Debbie and Becky in Tahoe last week.



And the mantle.


So that's our decorated house! Come visit us! Some of our neighbors have gone all out with the outside lights so it looks very festive around here. We love Christmas!