"It's Prickly!"

Today was the official start of Christmas season here at the TeAm Wells home.  Why?  Because we got our Christmas tree!!

For a variety of reasons, Tim & Patti came down to visit us for the day.  We spent some time exploring houses and then took them to The-Most-Amazing-Christmas-Tree-Farm-Ever.  We drove through a few fields before spotting the Blue Spruce.  I was immediately drawn to the actual blue color of the tree!

With our selected tree, pre-chop down.

Almost immediately, Tim noticed that this wasn't a "user-friendly" tree. It's prickly.  Actually, the needles are kind of like real needles.  Very sharp, pointy, I-want-to-draw-your-blood needles.  But we (and by we, I mean Tim and Timmy) soldiered on!  

This was one of the reasons I wanted to go tree shopping today...I didn't have to do any of the dirty work! 

Thanks Tim and Timmy!! :-)

Timmy: "I don't want to carry it, it's prickly!"

Me: "You'll be fine!" ::snicker, snicker:: (Little did I know...)

The guys did a great job hoisting it onto the car for the trip back to the entrance/exit and the official car tie-down crew (aka: the local Boy Scout troop).

We had it wrapped so it was easier to transport and set-up in the house.  So it became the Treepedo! We needed extra protection to unwrap and decorate it:

Yes, we did wear gloves the entire time.  And it still hurt.  Poor Timmy had the worst time, evidently the Blue Spruce is the only thing he's allergic to and so he ended up with some hives on his hands from the stabbings.  Luckily, I am allergic to everything and had some anti-histamine cream lying around.

Of course, once we decorated the tree, we had to take the mandatory photo. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!