getting our REAL tree from the same tree farm. Every year the owner talks my ear off about Notre Dame football. He tells my kids jokes (even though they're all in their mid to late teens now). Then he objects when I give him a large tip until I insist he use it to buy his crew lunch. Good times.
Never enough lights for the tree. IDK, maybe 1,500 lights this year on an 8 ft tree. I get the tree in the stand, my wife strings the lights and kids put on the decorations. While I put up all the lights outside. Then I finish off the tree by putting on the garland/tinsel. I load up the icicles on Christmas Eve. The kids also do the decorating on the inside of the house.