Oh Christmas tree!

We got our Christmas tree yesterday! I have to tell you a little story and hopefully Trev doesn't kill me. We are still very much newbies when it comes to doing "adult" stuff like getting a Christmas tree and hanging lights (that is another story for another time!). We went to good 'ol Home Depot and picked a tree based on it not being too expensive, and then by how tall it looked to be. We didn't even have the guy open it up so we could look at it, because why do that when we have a nice wall to hide any imperfections?! We get our hefty, little Christmas tree home and we start cutting off the wrapping and lugging it into the house. At this point we are like Christmas tree professionals. We place the Christmas tree into the tree stand. I hold the tree as straight as possible while Trev starts screwing those long screws into the trunk of the tree. He is grunting and pretty much hating this whole moment. He finally tightens the last one and says, "Let go of the tree". To both of our surprise and anger it immediately wants to fall to the floor! Trev wants to throw the tree out the door while I'm working on damage control. In that moment all my knowledge from Christmas pasts comes to use and we reformulate a new plan. Unscrew ALL the long screw things, adjust tree, and THIS time we make sure it is upright. At the end of this whole Christmas-memory-in-the-making we have a tree that is standing with a slight limp, but no worries it has a wall to rest against. And if you look at it straight on, no one would know!! I love our tree straight or not and it was a labor of.....love! :)

See! Can't even tell! It's a beauty.