Charlie Brown Tree

This year for the first time in our married life, we decided to get an artificial Christmas tree. Having a real tree has been such a hassle the last few years that I wanted to see if an artificial tree would make the holidays a little easier.  It did!!

As a compromise (John said he NEVER wanted a "fake" tree), we went and cut down a real tree in the woods on John's parents' property. They had some beautiful cypress trees, but Big Sister had her heart set on a Charlie Brown southern pine, since it had cute little pine cones growing out of its trunk!  We displayed our advent ornaments on our "real" tree, since it's little branches wouldn't support regular ornaments.