Our Tree

Recently Ryan has been putting in massive amounts of over time, working side work with a friend of his and just in general being an awesome husband.

He's been working so much in fact, that I was able to cut my hours back to weekends only at work (which really ends up being Sunday's only). As a result, we have not had the time to cut down a Christmas tree. I really wanted a tree for Jude this year, but told myself that if we didn't have it by about the 12th of December there just really wasn't any point is us getting one at all. We are leaving for vacation the day after Christmas, so having a tree that needed to be broken down basically Christmas night was just too much if we didn't get to 'enjoy it' for a few weeks before hand.

The past few years we have taken the drive to lower Delaware where a friend of Ryan and I's owns a small tree farm. There's nothing 'extra special' about these trees, they're just regular old trees, but the guy we know is very nice, they're reasonably priced and it's nice to have a 'tradition' every now and then.

As the month began to get away from us though, I told Ryan that we were just going to head over to a tree stand on the side of the road somewhere, grab a cheap tree and call it quits. I wanted a tree, we didn't have time... what else was there to do?

Well, Ryan insisted that he wanted to go to this same tree farm and cut down this tree. He told me he'd already talked to our friend about it and he thinks trees from the side of the road are lame. Well, as this weekend approached, we were again booked and with a holiday party, it just wasn't going to happen. So we needed to get creative.

Ryan said that he'd rather just not have a tree than to pay 30+ for a side-of-the-road tree and I really just didn't care at that point. Then at some point or another we both decided that we had a perfectly WONDERFUL tree already in our possesion.

The story: My brother got married back in October and had a "fall fest" theme. The tree above was decorated with different colored bags of cotton candy that the guests were free to take as favors. After the wedding though, the tree didn't serve much of a purpose, so it was given to us to use as Halloween Decorations or fire wood. It never made it's way out for Halloween... so we thought it would make the perfect Winter Solstice Tree for our little family this year!

And Jude? He loves it.