Christmas

Christmas season is finally here. We usually put the tree up the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but the boys were at their mom's and they wanted us to wait for them. Jason put lights on the house on Wednesday and we decorated the yard. We put up the Christmas tree on Friday and got it all decorated.

Jason - putting up our lights

The old tree...

Little did we forget, the stupid cord had a short in it. (It is a pre-lit tree.) Jason thought he had fixed it, but the lights would not stay on. Finally, after messing with the cord more times than he would've liked, he told me to go buy a new tree. Off on my trek I go! Of course, before I headed out at 8:30pm to Lowe's, I researched online to see what was on sale (everything was 50% off) and comparable to what we had, even though I wanted a bigger tree. I wanted a tree w/a wider base than our previous one. I went to Lowe's searching for the tree that was listed as $49. I found it, but decided it wasn't what I wanted! It looked just like our old tree. So after debating with myself and w/Colby who came along to help, we found the perfect tree. My luck, they were out and so was every store within a 10 mile radius! UGH! So, I called around and found that Lowe's by my work had 3 in stock. On my way to work the next morning, I went and picked up the tree, which was the last one!!!!!!!!!!

So, I brought home the new tree and got to go through the fun of undecorating one tree and redecorating the new tree. It really wasn't that bad, but I did have to go buy more ornaments b/c our new tree was so much bigger..

The new and improved tree...