'Twas a night of tree triming

As a little girl, we always had real Christmas trees. As part of our family tradition, we decorated for Christmas the weekend preceding my father's, sister's and oldest nephew's birthday. This year was no exception. Well, there was one exception. The tree is out of a box! AGH!!!!!

Every one in the family remembers the constantly growing Christmas tree. One year, we had a tree that grew and grew and grew. It eventually covered the entire front window (actually it was four windows). The tree was so large that it had to be cut into several pieces in order to be removed after the festivities ended.

Then there was the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. One particular year, my father decided to purchase a different type of tree and literally half the needles fell off the tree before Christmas. Every time someone walked passed the tree, needles would fall to the floor. We vacuumed pine needles well into June.

Although the tree came out of a box, I am pleasantly surprised. It turned out really nice and doesn't look like a "fake" Christmas tree at all.

I was even kind enough to let NyCee stay up past her bedtime (way past her bedtime-2 hours past her bed time to be exact) but she had so much fun helping to decorate the tree.