O Christmas Tree

This year, for the first time, we chopped down our own tree. (Well, the nice man with the huge chainsaw cut it down for us). We found a place about 3 blocks from our house, right near this gorgeous old windmill. There was about 4 inches of snow on the ground and it was still snowing. It was picturesque.


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The kids watching the man cut down the tree

Some things are strikingly difficult here. Like, finding a tree topper. No angels, stars or light up ornaments are to be found. A friend of ours found a chinsey star at a drug store type place so Katie and I decided to make it a little more fancy (for those of you with girls, think Fancy Nancy). We added foil stuff and gold beads from the craft store and lots and lots of glue!

The tacky...I mean Fancy star