O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

Yesterday, during half-time of the Apple Cup, we picked out our Christmas Tree.

Normally, this is a long process of hunting through all the trees,

while Garrett explains to all of us why the ones we chose won't work, but not this time.

Nope, Garrett simply said okay when I said we wanted the beautiful one right by the road.

Maybe he was just so happy that the Cougs were up going into half-time {so sad that it didn't last}

 that he wasn't his usual "critical eye for trees" self but we NEED that Garrett back

because I apparently have NO concept of size ~ our tree is HUGE!!!

Last night was almost comical as we lovingly {sort of!} joked that we got a Griswold tree.

Really, it is gigantic ~ took up half the living room, 

so we moved out the dining room table and set it up in there with the Christmas train table.

In there, it looks stunning and the kiddos LOVE it so much!

They could not wait to decorate it so tonight we got in Christmas PJs,

 blared the Christmas music and got to decorating Griswold.

The Bigs were so into decorating this year and were a hoot to listen to as they 

squealed and reminisced about each of their ornaments.

Mommy even put on a couple ornaments, though mostly just the red balls at the end :-)

Eli's real joy came from getting to put the star on top for the second year in a row . . . 

He felt like such a big helper today . . . first hanging lights outside with Daddy and then the star!

Of course, the little turkeys goofed off plenty too.

Fortunately, only one ornament broke and it was a boring red ball.  Luke was quick to help clean up!

So here is Griswold, all decorated and lovely . . . 

It's starting to grow even on me!!!