Chase's First Christmas Tree!!

Well....we definitely had an adventure this weekend!

Mom and Denise came into town for a visit, and we decided to go get a tree. A local lake wildlife area was allowing people to come cut down invasive Red Cedars for a small donation fee, so we decided to go do that! It seemed like a good idea at the time...

Here we are picking out our tree! It didn't look that big outside...

It was coooooooolllld out!

Cuttin' it down

What the heck are you guys doing????

Tiiiiiiimmburrrrrr!

Then we had to take the tree back to the car

Trying to stay warm!!

The nice volunteers helped us get the tree on our car

Ready to go!!

Everything was going so well...

Here is our tree on the side of the road

after it fell off the car (on the highway!!)

Here we are pulling it back to the car....it's still freezing out by the way!

Back on the car again

Time for some margaritas!

Chase wanted to try a lime...

...he wasn't so sure that he liked it!

We finally made it home with the tree,

and it was WAYYY too big for the front window!

So we put it on the other side of the living room,

thank god for vaulted ceilings!

The finished product!

Denise and Chase, too cute!

Once again, everything was going so well....

Apparently the tree was a bit too big.

We had a few casualties as far as ornaments go, and some injuries,

but nothing that can't be fixed with some superglue.

All in all, it was a really fun weekend, and I know we'll laugh about it more several years from now!! Currently, the tree is back up, and tethered to the railings by 3 strands of twine, so hopefully there will be no more tragedies!!