That Tree Is Not At All "Trim"

Not trim, as in slim, but it is now trimmed.  We tromped through some snow last Sunday and found a good, fat tree, which we then decorated that afternoon.  Patience being in short supply here at State of Nature, it was not practical to have the tree spend days outside in a bucket of water first.  It's now a week later, and so far so good.  It still has most of its needles, Matthew has not pulled it down on himself, and conflagrations have been confined to the fireplace.  I've posted here some pictures of the kids decorating.