Chip GainestakesChristmastree shopping very seriously!
On her Instagram Story on Sunday, Chip’s wifeJoanna Gainesshared that her husband had chosen a tree so large — 12 feet! — that it required assistance from some heavy-duty equipment to get it on top of their car to take home.
“Chip picked this 12 ft beauty that required a little help from ol’ John Deere … ” Joanna, 41, labeled a video of Chip and a few other men working together atThe Robinson Family Farmin Temple, Texas, to get the tree secured atop their vehicle with the tractor.
“I guess I can do withouta dining table for amonth,” Joanna joked in her text on the photo, adding an emoji of a monkey covering its eyes.
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Chip Gaines.Joanna Gaines/Instagram
The Gaines family Christmas tree.Joanna Gaines/Instagram
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The giant new tree is at least the second one that will be going in the Gaines family home this holiday season. Last weekend, Joanna tasked herselfwith decorating her family’s tree, documenting the process that included several storage bins of decorations, a tangle of holiday lights and a break for cookie baking.
“It’s go time,” the Magnolia mogul wrote on the first of three posts on her Instagram Story, drawing an arrow from a stack of containers — likely filled with ornaments, garland and other festive essentials — to her evergreen.
Next, her followers were treated to a photo of cookie dough, with Joanna admitting she got a little “sidetracked” from the task at hand, using the hashtag, “#cookiesplease.”
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TheFixer Upperalums took their youngest child, 17-month-old sonCrew, to the farm to help pick out their huge tree this past weekend. On her Instagram feed, Joanna posted asnapshot of the little boytoddling around the collection of firs, captioning it, “‘Tis the season ❤️.”
“I thought about every possible room it could go in, and the only place where there was an open spot was the master bedroom,” Joanna wrote. “In years past, I would have never thought to put aChristmas tree this adorned in my bedroom, but given the circumstances, it played out just the way it was supposed to.”
The family also kept another tree in their dining room —which was 13 feet tall last year!
source: people.com
