Our christmas tree goes up about three weeks before christmas. The last couple of years my best friend has helped us decorate.

We go out to the pasture to find a nice cedar tree. Sometimes we can't find a nice one so we get a crappy one, but we decorate it anyways. We southerners stick to our guns.

Its' very multicolored from years of collecting ornaments, handmade school ornaments, bright 90s lights, and not enough tinsel. I love tinsel, and we never have enough.

we have all sorts of garlands too, one thick green and silver one that goes across the mantle over the woodstove, some fuschia and a blue one and some red and gold and silver ones, and one tiny gold one that is almost completely worn out xD