Douglas or Noble...what's your Christmas tree style?

Our family has changed our "tree style" over the years.  We were once a douglas fir tree family, as this is what I grew up with.  My grandmother always said "there is too much space on a noble, they look spindly" and as a child I agreed.  I loved the fullness of the douglas and every Thanksgiving we would go to the tree farm and they would cut down the tree we had picked out the Thanksgiving before.  This was something I looked forward to every year.  However, I think it was about eight years ago when I saw a decorated noble and fell in love with how beautiful the ornaments and bulbs hung so perfectly from its branches and I thought decorations don't hang from the branches of a douglas like they do on a noble they lay on the outside of the tree sort of flat all around and that is when my love for the douglas fell to the wayside and the noble become our family tree of choice. 

Do you have a tree tradition?  Each year we get one or two new ornaments to hang and whenever we travel we always grab an ornament from our vacation destination being sure to write the date on it somewhere and then as we decorate we reminisce of all the places we have been.  There are no white lights in our house and definitely no flocking.  We do not have a theme to our family tree however, I know many that do.  I have one friend that each year decorated her tree with all snowmen and another friend had a flocked tree covered in white lights with all vintage rose colored ornaments.  I remember one year as a kid my mom decorated our tree with white lights and red bows tied all over it. 

A Christmas tree is very personal and very much to each her own.  What is your Christmas tree style?  Does your tree have a theme?  White or colored lights?  Flocked or not? Tinsel or colored garland? 

Whatever your Christmas tree style, I hope you are enjoying this holiday season.

Merry Christmas,
Apryl

A noble tree

 via Southern Living  

A douglas tree

 via Juniper Ridge