Home Depot Christmas

Our Christmas tree search is a far cry from the outings through people's forested property of my childhood, or at least a trip to real Christmas tree farm where the trees were still growing, where we'd search and search and search and finally cut a tree, only to bring it home and find that it had some huge gaping hole in at least 75% of it.  I've romanticized those memories in my adulthood, but the truth is:  you just can't beat a Home Depot tree.   The chain linked-off section of the parking lot smells like a tree lot, the trees are really quite full, and the price??  You can't beat it!  PLus no one ends up covered in mud, and rarely does it end in a huge family fight.  So Home Depot is where we get all our trees, no matter that there is an element of "ghetto" to our outing, which this year included a giant painted mural of Santa, Mrs. Clause, the elves and even a couple of reindeer doing "Gangnam Style".  (If you are unfamiliar with that- youtube it)

 And thank you Grandpa for the use of your truck which made our entire outing the fastest it's ever been!

 Our plan this year was to pick up the first tree we saw, which is exactly what we did!  Truth be told, we did unbundle one other tree so that Grayson could use Lee's knife, but we bought the very first tree we picked up.  In and out in 10 minutes!

 A brief moment of brotherly love.

We had a festive evening of tree trimming, Christmas music and excitement as we ushered in the Christmas season!