our home smells like christmas.

i almost leaked myself saturday when i finally saw the men selling trees on the corner. 

i would have bought one 3 months ago if available,

but for some reason they feel it necessary to wait one month before christmas to bring them out!

 in our three christmas's together, we'd never bought a real tree,

just had our sad {yet slightly adorable} charlie brown tree. 

but this year, i put my foot down.

i wanted, no needed, a christmas tree!

upon sight of the first tree i shouted, "beautiful! we'll take it!",

 but hubs had to quickly reel me back seeing that i was a little uneducated
in the whole tree-buying business. {my mom was a big believer in the costco trees}.

who knew you had to evaluate every single attribute: needle length, branch thickness, 

sturdiness, and the list goes on...

but after finding our pretty little thing, we sang christmas carols all the way home,
followed by a bit of home alone action as we decorated.