Christmas Trees... the kind that smell like outside...not plastic :)

So this year is the first year that I've had a real Christmas tree in... well, a long long time. As a matter of fact, I bearly remember any of our trees being real... but I know we had them, because my mom always had to vacuum around the bottom part of the tree due to the massive amounts of needles that fell.

Well, when me and Jay got married, we (meaning me) got a prelit artificial tree on sale at Garden Ridge. Well, that tree is still in storage, and rather than me driving four hours then have to put the thing up (also being nervous that the lights may give me hell) I decided to go get one of the real ones. And Jay agreed. **Suprisingly**

So I got to go pick out a tree, by myself (which I wasn't seriously thrilled about) and managed to haul it in the house by myself too! Pretty proud of myself. :) Let me just say, I've had the tree in the house less than 24 hours, and I think I have swept under and around the tree like ... oh, 10 times already... This thing better survive when we go out of town for a week. :/

So, new REAL tree, means I needed to get lights for it! :) If you haven't learned by now... it's the little things in life that excite me... like silly shaped pencil topper "erasers" that don't even erase quat, they more like smear around the lead on your paper, making it look dreadful. That's the time you just scratch out the word and the smears and write the new word next to it. ...[just realized how completely off topic I am]...anyway... that's how I feel about Chistmas lights.

So, before Jay had to go to work, he helped me get the tree straight so that I could decorate it tonight and have something beautiful to look at while I'm sitting next to the fire :) It's suppose to start snowing late tonight and tomorrow, so I'm definately going to be doing everything indoors. :)

A predicament that I have run into though, is that our roof is very tall and in fact taller than our ladder that we have... so I am afraid I will be limited to our outside house decorations this year. :( Oh well, more to look forward to next year, I suppose.