Goodman-Baines Christmas Grotto transformation!!

Just a quick 'Welcome' to my sister Tiffany, as even though we have been running the blog for almost a year, she found out only today about its existence!!

Well today we headed out Christmas tree shopping. Its been a long time since we last had a real tree, but as we had not only a better selection of real trees, the silly cost of artificial trees here and the room in which to have them I managed to persuade Nige that we should get 3 real trees!!!

There are many places selling trees here and although we really wanted to see the trees in full before buying, the first place we looked at that didn't have them wrapped up, didn't really have much of a selection. So we headed off to Home Depot (Basically B&Q). They had one of each tree on display and we picked one that looked good. However when we went to pick them all the others were wrapped up. We decided that we would just pick two 8 footers and a 5 footer and hope for the best.

When we got home we had to defrost the trees (I kid you not) for a few hours til all the branches fell into place and we could see what they looked like. Well they were the widest, bushiest, most perfectly shaped trees we'd ever had. Below is a picture of them before decorations so you can see what we mean.

This is the bonus room tree and in the background is my new favourite channel, Christmas Fireplace. Basically its a real log fire burning away and occasionally an arm in a 'lumberjack' shirt stokes it up and adds another log. Its on 24hours a day and is great to have on when you are in the room without watching television as it makes you feel all cosy and warm. They had a similar thing on one of the sky music channels last year as I remember my best friend Katie and I drinking a couple of bottles of wine whilst it was on in the background.....anyway I digress!!

Bonus room tree again (with out Christmas fireplace channel!)

This is our second tree downstairs.

These are the trees decorated, with the addition of a third, our toy tree.

The house is now all lit up outside (a huge thanks to Niges' Bosses, although they don't know it, as the works van and lift came in very handy!!!!) and as soon as it gets darker I shall take and add some pictures to the blog.