Oh White House Christmas Tree!

If you haven't started decorating your house yet for Christmas then you better get cracking: The White House already has you beat.

On the day after Thanksgiving, the official start of the holiday season, the first family received a very special delivery: the official White House Christmas tree.

The 18 1/2-foot Douglas fir arrived by horse-drawn carriage straight from a West Virginia farm operated by Eric and Gloria Sundback, octogenarians who know a thing or two about growing a Christmas tree: it's the fourth time one of their trees has held a place of honor in The White House during Christmas.

"It's big enough for Sasha to climb in, I think," one of the Sundbacks joked to the Today show.

The 12-foot-wide tree will hold a place of honor in the White House Blue Room, where scores of volunteers will decorate it. In addition to the behemoth tree, the Sundbacks also provided more than a dozen smaller trees for other rooms of the White House, including the Oval Office.

What's that? You don't have an invite to The White House this holiday season to see the festive decor in person?

No need to crash the party, like one couple we told you about this week. The Obama family BFF, Oprah Winfrey, will film "Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special" to air on ABC Sunday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m.

Happy decorating — and good luck making your house look like the White House!

Photo courtesy of The White House via Wikimedia Commons.