Our Christmas Tree

The day after Thanksgiving we went to Home Depot to pick out our Christmas tree.  Uncle Justin was nice enough to come help.

After they set up the tree, the kids got to open up an early Christmas that Uncle Lance had gotten ready before he left for Spain:  a train set for around the Christmas tree!

Lance had noticed how much Cade had loved a particular train set at a Christmas display last year and he went and bought it and had it all wrapped and ready for us to open this year.  The kids absolutely love it!  He was even thoughtful enough to wrap up extra batteries for it!  Thanks Uncle Lance!!

This tree of ours had some issues.  No matter how many times we tried, it would not stay straight in the stand.  It kept tipping to the point we were afraid it would tip over.  After much exasperation and time spent trying to remedy the problem, Tyler used his engineer brain and came up with this: