We arrived home from Virginia Saturday night and went out to get our tree on Sunday. We waste no time getting Christmas into high gear here. We headed to the same tree farm that we went to last year, called Yaegers. It includes Santa and a hay ride.

The girls with Santa before we went to get the tree. Lauren is still wearing those dress up glasses.

Hayride selfie.

The girls agreed on a tree pretty quickly, and Dave chopped it down with a little help from Sophie.

The team with their kill.

When we got home we realized that we got a little aggressive with the height of the tree and Dave had to chop off a significant amount at the bottom and top. But after some finagling and maybe some cursing, it’s up!

That evening we decorated it.

The girls and Lina putting on ornaments.

The final product. You can see that the star has been less placed on top and more shoved in there, but it works.