O Christmas Tree!

Matt was very kind to me the evening we got our Christmas tree. He could have been really bugged, or said things, but being the better person than myself just smiled and laughed to himself about my particularness! And I say that because we went to our sister-in-laws family house where they sell Christmas tree, the same place Matt went as a child, to get our tree. After we had picked out, paid for and tied the tree to the roof of the car, I decided the tree was too small and we needed to get a different tree, one I had shot down previously! So we got the guys to come take the tree down and luckily there wasn't a restocking fee!! hahaha! We needed more money than we had brought, so we had to go back to the ATM and then went back and got the better, bigger tree!

The better story is that although exhausted at about 11pm Sat. night I got a second wind and decided to put lights on the tree. We did promise the kids the tree would be ready to put decorations on the next day, so it needed to be done. But after about 2 hours and 5 strands of lights later, only a little more than half the tree was lit! So Matt being the wonderful husband he is went to Walmart at 1 in the morning and got 5! more boxes of lights! Needless to say, I didn't finish the tree that night and we went to bed at 2! I finished putting the lights on Sun. morning, although one of the boxes was the wrong type and there is a small bare spot on the tree, but at this point, I don't care!

So last night we invited my sister, Mary Beth, out to help us decorate the tree. I made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies right beforehand, so we could treat ourselves when we were done. And we played some classic Christmas music and had a lot of fun trimming the tree!

The tree is up a little earlier than usual, but we did feel it was the best time for it to happen. I am glad though too, cause it definitely feels way more Christmasy with it up! And it is pretty and makes the house smell good. Now if I can figure out a way for those under 2.5 feet(Lincoln) to stay away from it, it would be awesome!

Christmas Lights.... And Matt's Pride!

The morning of Thanksgiving Matt put two strands of Christmas lights out on the front of our house. Just over the porch and garage. It looked okay, but very lacking, but what do you do? So the guy down the street from us put his Christmas lights up..... way more than two strands and all around the second story of his home. Upon driving by this Matt declared, "If Kevin can do it, I am so going to do it!" After some talking about it and not coming up with a way for Matt to get up that high, I prodded him, several times actually, to call Kevin ask him for advice, or at the very least to borrow his ladder. So after telling Matt Kevin's number and reminding him to call, he did. Matt said he was only going to ask for his consultation, but as it ended up Kevin was going to be coming up in an hour to help. Sooo.... Kevin comes with ladder in hand and "helps" Matt with the lights. Helps is all relative because while it is true Matt has never hung Christmas lights besides on the gutter and did need to be shown how exactly it all worked, but Kevin basically did everything including take the screen out of the window! So once out on the roof, Matt helped Kevin by basically staying out of his way. Matt stayed as far away from the edge of the roof as humanly possible and rocked himself while in the fetal position till Kevin said he was all done! (although in the pictures it does look like Matt is actually helping) Now you may think I am being mean about Matt, but he was actually the first one who said this! And Kevin is so nice... I kept telling him I am going to bake him a pie, which I actually did this morning... But he kept saying he was glad to help. That night in bed I asked Matt how he was going to get the lights off the tree- he said he was calling Kevin! And poor Matt, fearful of heights and not known for being graceful, probably best he stay off the roof. I said next year, we are not going to ask Kevin for help, either we don't put them up, or we hire it out.