Timber!

 

          This isn't the most happiest holiday memory I have stored in my head, but it's one I can clearly remember. About five or six years ago my family and I went out and got our Christmas tree from a place on Farmington Road. My family and I chose the perfect blue spruce , and we brought it home and put it in a tree stand. We let the tree set there for a couple of days so that the branches would return normal and, not all bunched up from the wrapping the place puts on so it's easier to take home. When my sister and I got home from school two days after we got the tree; my sister and I waited until both my parents were home and we asked to decorate the tree. When we got the "okay" from both my parents we took out all the boxes full of lights, ornaments, and the angel that goes on top of our tree.

          First, my dad put on all of the light that go around our tree and, after my dad got done putting on the lights we started putting on all the ornaments. We put on all kinds of ornaments on our tree including some that belonged to my grandma's mom who we called Nana and others that we get from Bronners Christmas Store in Frankenmuth. After we put all the ornaments on the tree my dad always put the Angel on the top of the tree. My whole family stood there admiring the tree and, then dad notice that the tree was tilting to the left a little. As my dad was walking towards the tree to fix the problem the tree fell over. For a moment my whole family went speechless and didn't say a word. Then we picked up the tree, put it back in the stand, and made sure that it was secure in there. Then it got worse from there, a lot of the glass ornaments we had put on the tree had shattered into what looked like a million pieces. I was really sad when I saw my favorite ornament, which was a yellow bulb with a smiley face on it. My mom called my grandma about the whole thing and, heard that my favorite bulb had broke. A few days later after my mom called: my grandma came over and gave me a new yellow smiley face bulb. I was so happy that my favorite ornament was going to be on the tree that year, and had no other problems with our Christmas tree.