real Christmas trees. they're messy, painful, dangerous and fall down hours after putting them up. ---but this was our year-the eleventh anniversary of our tree hunting expeditions. it was beautiful outside, isaac loves tractors, hannah loves the same sad sorry looking trees that i do and caleb loves to do anything outside. it was going to be perfect! we've been saying for 4 years that "next year" will be easier, and this year was....kind of. Abi doesn't especially enjoy being outside really....at all...unless the temperature is between 65-75 degrees and it's not too sunny or windy or rainy or humid. She was clearly unhappy (and cried the whole time) because-in her words- she "wore the wrong shoes"---as if we were climbing a mountain and she was wearing heels. it was really quite funny. we laughed.....(we being everyone but Abi.) enjoy your fake trees and we'll enjoy our painfully dry and dying real one! merry christmas Amy