My Christmas Trees!

I started putting up the family Christmas tree, on my own, around age 10. My parents had this fake 6ft tree that was made up of just a few pieces, so it was easy enough for a little kid like me to put together the tree, string up the lights, and get the ornaments on.

It didn't take long before I was a master tree putter-upper and I loved it! I'd get my radio out and put on my favorite Christmas music and take my time, thinking about the placement of every ornament and every piece of tinsel. I'm sure it didn't matter as far as looks were concerned, but I wanted to savor the decorating as long as possible.

Moving out of the family home and into my own home with Joe only amped up my love of Christmas and Christmas trees. There's no one here to stop me from going nuts (although Joe has tried!! Lol) and now I have as many as 6 different trees to display at Christmastime!

Here they are, in all their glory!!

The "Gingerbread" Themed Tree!

This is our little 4ft tree. I like to display it in the front window of the dining room. Because it's so small and doesn't take very many ornaments to complete, it's so easy to have random themes. This year, it has the few gingerbread ornaments that I've collected on it. It doesn't quite fill it up, but that doesn't bother me.

A close up of some of the ornaments.

I'm always on the look out for specialty ornaments for this one. I have a little collection of Rudolph, the abominable snow man, and Santa Claus from those old Claymation movies. That might be the theme next year.

Our 7.5ft "Family" styled tree.

This is the tree that Joe and I bought for our first Christmas together. It's not only a tall tree but it has a wide base that took up half the room in our apartment! We had to actually move furniture out of the room to get this tree up once upon a time. Lol.. I'm so glad we moved.

The cats, trying to help.

It didn't take long before the cats got comfortable underneath the tree and started eating all the tinsel and knocking the bottom row of ornaments off!!

The tree with all the presents underneath. It looks so much smaller now.

This is the first year that this tree is in our formal living room with the family ornaments and this is where it will stay from now on. Normally, Joe would have set up his train set underneath, but he has been working a lot this holiday season, so he hasn't found the time. This is also the tree that houses the Christmas presents, so the kids can't get into them, since they don't go in this room all that often.

The "Red" themed tree in the great room.

After Christmas last year, I found this 9ft, pre-lit, semi-thin Christmas tree for a steal. So obviously, I snatched it up. We have a HUGE window in our great room and I wanted a HUGE tree to display in it. I didn't do that this year because I didn't feel like moving the furniture to accommodate that idea. But I plan to do it next year.

Since this is the tree that's in our main living space, I like to have a coordinated theme. This year, I picked red with white lights. It was pretty easy to find plain red ornaments and cheap enough to fill in the space with red bows. I am so ecstatic about how it turned out. I just really hope Mitchell doesn't knock it over!!!

 

Quinn and her "Baby Tree."

I wanted to set the red themed tree up by myself. Almost all of the ornaments were new and needed to be hung on those little hook things. So, in order to get Quinn to leave me alone, I gave her this mini tree that I had hanging around. She loved it. It now sleeps in her bedroom!

The little 1.5ft tree in the kitchen.

I found this little guy at my local thrift store. It cost $1.25. It's so cute and tiny. I have it propped on top of the microwave in the kitchen. Now that we have this one, there is a Christmas tree in every room of the house on the first floor. You might think, "That's too much." But it's not overwhelming at all since each one of the trees are different sizes.

As you can tell, I love Christmas and especially Christmas trees. I have another tree, a 6ft-er, that I didn't get the chance to put up. I'd planned to put it together on the second floor landing, but between everything else we have going on, there was no time. I hope I can do it next year.

I hope everyone has a great holiday season! Please be safe. Drink responsibly. Smile often!!!