Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!

We FINALLY were able to buy our tree last night. Originally, I wanted to go out and cut down our own tree. I wanted it to be our holiday tradition. But since Noel is so young this year anyway, and it was hard enough to find time to go out to the tree lot, I took what I could get!

We headed down to the Boy Scout Tree Lot and we ended up getting a Canaan Fir. We thought about setting it up downstairs (where Noel can't get into it all day) but I decided that I'd rather have it upstairs, even if I have to correct her when she starts getting into it. So far she hasn't been that bad about it :)

We got some new lights this year: I originally wanted to get the flame-shaped LED ones, but since there was a good deal on them, I got these:

Ooohhh Lights!

And this is the cool effect I got when I used no flash, a long exposure, and moved

the camera in circles. Pretty!

I'll try to get a full shot of the tree later. It's kind of sad-looking though because the bottom half of the tree is pretty scarce!