A Christmas Tree Farm?? in Alpine you say? yep. We went a few minutes down the street from Ben’s parents and walked among the trees and found the perfect one…

This was our first time trying the tree farm and it was so nice. Very Close to our house. Warm weather. Kid friendly. They had chain saws and 4 wheelers and cut and hauled for us. The trees are big and well priced. I’m pretty sure we’ll go back again next year.

We spent the rest of the day – FRIDAY after THANKSGIVING 11/29 – putting up the tree and decorating it and decorating the house. It’s all different in our new house. We had to try and find spots for our decor and we have no money for new decor but we love having a fireplace for the first time and somewhere to hang our billion stockings! Shannon helped me put the lights on the tree – would have been easy peasy but the perfect tree we brought home happened to be EXTREMELY prickly. We had to break out the long sleeves and the gloves. It’s also a taller tree than we are used to so we had to be up on the ladders. We were proud of ourselves for a job well done (and then the next afternoon the entire tree fell over!! and the lights are dangling and ornaments are barely on but that thing is way to prickly to try and fix it!) We are loving our tree.

Per tradition, we slept out near the Christmas tree that night!! I think I was asleep in the first hour -(after pulling an all night shopping trip the night before I was spent.) But the family watched the Grinch, Elf and Home Alone before forcing Benji to close his eyes and go to sleep! CHRISTMAS time is here!! We Love this time of year.