Oh Christmas Tree

Fireworks and Christmas trees are among my favorite things. So rather than suffering crazy crowds on black Friday, we worked on putting up the tree. It's so big it comes in 2 large boxes, 5 pieces total.

Josh and his fake cheesy smile :)


Thank God for Scott (and little helper Josh), because there's no way I could put this tree up alone, much less figure out the lights. It's pre-lit but it's a little tricky plugging all the pieces together and then making sure they all work. Scott's very good at setting it up and figuring it all out. :)



I love this tree and how huge it is. We got it the first year we moved to this house in 2003. So this will be our 7th Christmas with it, wow! Which means to me that we've gotten our money's worth out of it, haha!



I took it super easy this year since decorating this 12-ft thing wears me out on a normal day. I pulled out less than half our ornaments, but just enough to make it pretty and keep the more fragile ones out of the little boy's hands. :) Josh had lost of fun decorating too. . .










And while he wasn't looking, I redistributed the ornaments. :)