Only-Ever-First-Ever.

I know, I have lots of blogging to catch up on but I'm only making time for a tree entry right now. I'll admit, I've been looking forward to this Christmas tree for quite a while now. In fact, I started measuring to make sure we had enough room for it sometime last June... no joke. So, in my excitement, I rearranged all of the furniture the other night to prepare for the arrival of our only-ever-first-ever Christmas tree.

When I first moved the furniture I thought it was pretty strange. It usually takes me a while to get used to these types of changes and I thought the coffee table placement was kind of dumb but by the time I went to bed, I decided that I like the furniture better this way than the way I had it before. I'm contemplating keeping it like this even after the tree is gone. We'll see what happens.

Thursday was Steven's only day off this week so we decided it was definitely the day to get the tree. We found this cute little place out between Buckley and Bonney Lake and guess what my favorite part was...

...this cute little cow!! He was so sweet and was making this adorable little mooing sound and licking my hand and I just wanted to keep him. Steven says he actually saw my heart melt when the cow made that tiny noise. Evidently he even has some antlers that they put on him and he's their little reindeer but I didn't get to see him in his costume.

And here's our tree!!!! Haha! Just kidding. It's a pretty one but ours is not flocked and it's much smaller. Plus, Steven is covering up the price tag but it is marked at $99 and we chose to spend a little less than that this year. Actually, we were going to be really economical and get the least expensive tree they had but, we both fell in love with this cute little noble.

It almost reaches our ceiling so I guess it isn't exactly "little" but it is really slim and fits perfectly in the 3 foot wide space we had cleared for it. We tried looking at a few others but we agreed it had to be this cutie right here.

Oh yeah, that's my husband, wrong cutie, I was referring to the tree, but I brought the husband home too. Like our new tree stand? The man at the farm guaranteed us that this would be the last tree stand we ever purchase. It actually is really easy to use and our tree is standing quite straight. I'm decently impressed with it thus far. Oh yes, and there are still loads of needles in the back of my car... should have put a blanket down.

Into the house we go!

Ta-daa!! There it is! Our only-ever-first-ever tree!! As it turns out, this is actually Steven's first ever real tree. I much prefer the real ones. I like the smell of them and the trail of needles they leave when you bring them in and how you have to get all worried about whether or not it's still drinking water and how they're a different size and shape every year and they all have different quirks about them and in later years you can talk about that one that was so-wide-it-took-up-the-whole-room and the one that wouldn't-stand-up-straight-for-anything and then one that had-a-bald-spot-on-every-side and the one with a crooked-top-so-it-looked-like-the-star-was-flying-through-the-sky-or-something -- I think you get the picture, yes?

So there it is. I'll put up some more pictures once it's all decorated and pretty. Steven is working all weekend so we won't get around to it until sometime next week. Hopefully Tuesday morning.

This is the only ornament on the tree so far. (Sorry it's so bright.) I decided it would be fun to get a new ornament each year that has something to do with a trip we took or a really fun activity that we enjoyed together. Obviously, the wedding and honeymoon are depicted here in the first of many years of new Christmas ornaments.