First Christmas Tree

I made Matthew let me put up a tree and deck his apartment out for Christmas this year since we are engaged, ha. Here are the pictures of our tree:

(PS-I did all of the work while Matthew watched football)

I wanted this pink ornament SO BAD last year. Matthew and I saw it in a store in Hendersonville. I have literally thought about it all year and regretted not buying it. I visited the same store this year, and they had ONE of these left from last year. It was meant to be my ornament haha. 

Yes, that is a peacock ornament. 

That M is not for Matthew...it's for MCMURRAY haha

Matthew and I picked out this ornament together last year...it's my favorite on the whole tree. 

The full tree. There are probably too many ornaments. It is maybe a tad bit gaudy and tacky. Am I going to add wide ribbons and beads tomorrow anyways? Probably. 

Matthew is going to hate me when it's time to take it down. 

Matthew picked out the star on top. We will have to get a new one next year because it already broke. He looped the cord around at the top to make it stay haha.

While we were visiting his parent's house this weekend, I found out a neat story about their tree topper. On their first Christmas as a married couple, they did not have a tree topper. So Mr. McMurray drew a star on paper, and Mrs. McMurray traced it on cardboard, cut it out, and covered it with gold glitter. She then glued a clothespin to the back and used that to pin it to the top of their tree. It has been their tree topper ever since!