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I hope everyone had a restful and stressless holiday week!

Ours was spent getting all of those things done that pile on day after day and I was loving it.

We had Thanksgiving at home which was nice. Hubs and I both grew up only having Thanksgiving with our immediate family and so Thanksgiving at a house with tons of people although fun can be a bit overwhelming. Grandma was here of course.

Hubs cooked the turkey-I handled everything else and Row was awake this year.

We have literally been eating turkey dinner for every meal and it’s pretty awesome not meal planning!

Grandma and I geared up for some shopping! We live for drama-it’s true. We actually only go to one or two stores, grab our stuff and dart back home.

Waiting for thanksgiving

On Saturday we headed out to Dewberry Farms to cut down our annual Christmas tree. They actually shape them all year long and so they’re pretty much all perfect. It had been 80 and sweaty the day before as we hung our lights. Let it be known Grandma did some, hubs did some and I did some-not pictured is me of course. I also bought those star shower laser lights this year-AMAZING wait no LIFE CHANGING.

It begins

And so since it was freezing Row might have been a bit cold/bundled.

Christmas tree cutting cold #itwas80yesterday

After we rode the hayride out to the tree farm hubs walked out, grabbed a saw and said-Callie pick which ever one you want and hurry-so I did. He cut it down, and the boy handed him the tag we didn’t look at and realized that it was $200 we both almost fainted. He was a trooper though and it came home with us.

It’s a little full and a lot big

It may be a little big is all….10 foot ceilings yikes-no tree topper this year and so starts our year of the most expensive live Christmas tree we will ever own.

Our $200 tree touches the ceiling- note to self check the tag before cutting next year

But one the upside we have a memory and someone had the best day ever.

Somebody had a good time picking a tree

Why yes that is a Christmas Minnie Mouse.

I’m not going to lie. I have a slight obsession with the perfect Christmas tree. I also have to have it the weekend immediately following Thanksgiving. When we lived in Massachusetts we would shlep on out into the woods just like Christmas Vacation and cut down our own tree. mind you it was on a tree farm…but that’s what you did. People in New England, for the most part cut down their own trees. It was an amazing experience and freezing. Now down here in the South where it rarely snows most people run on over to your grocery or hardware store and by a pre cut tree…or just the pre-lit fake one. Not us.

I finally found a Christmas tree farm! I was so excited. Last year Row was a bit small to enjoy the festivities so we indeed went to the hardware store. The amazingness of our faces was captured in a photo memory of which I have made into a coffee cup for hubs. This year it was Dewberry Farms. It’s only about 15 minutes west of Katy. It was like another world.

They had an amazing area for toddlers to play and bigger kids too. Usually you have to pay an admission fee during the year but for Christmas they waive the fee since most things are not open. They have additional play areas that you can buy tokens for. There’s a free hayride out to the actual Christmas tree area but we opted to pay a fee for the train ride.

Row loves train rides as you can see in our previous post. She loved it so! You get a round trip ride too. The train takes you quite a ways out to the trees. They drop you off and then you can frolic through the trees to find your very own. There are lots of employees walking around to help. You can decide to cut your own or have help. They also have each one tagged with height-super important and price. It was more expensive than the hardware store but the trees are much nicer.

We opted for the hybrid tree. Get this-it’s grown for 7 years and is pollen free. They also shape them as they grow.

Oh and hubs-he cut it down!

Weekend Wrap up

Dewberry Farms Christmas Tree Shopping