Okay so every day I don't work on my Christmas Journal, I get another day behind. Oh well, I'll get back to it. Kind of ironic that to work on my journal I actually feel like I have to put experiencing the moments and events of the season on hold! He he he!
We got a lot of important stuff done today! Glen spent some time cleaning up the front and back after last week's wind storm. There were some big ol' huge branches in the back yard. And boy did they make noise when they came down! While he was doing that, I finally pulled out all of my soldering equipment and took a whirl at that. I had this glorious vision of making pebble charms for some gifts but...we're gonna have to put that off until next year. It's gonna take A LOT of practice! :-)
Another big thing was we pulled down all the Christmas decorations from the attic. That's a big event because it usually requires at least two people! Just a lot of stuff and it's clumsy to manuever it down the ladder by myself. Remember the attic ladder in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? Well, our garage has one of those and then all this GLORIOUS storage above the cars. We keep all our Christmas and holiday decorations up there as well as camping and your basic large junk we have no idea what to do with.
And lastly, we got our tree today! Whew! It's always such a good feeling to get the tree picked out and set up in the house. We sure lucked out for our tree pickin' day too! GORGEOUS weather although it was coldy cold! So here's Glen and Miranda after gettin' the tree on the car.
Yeah, that big puff of black smoke in the background isn't a normal thing. Not sure what that was. We'll have to watch the news tonight.
Here's the naked (blush) tree in our livingroom.
And then after several hours, I got the lights put in. For some reason, this is my job. That's okay though. I love it and no one else does it the way I like it! I'm VERY picky about my lights. They have to be evenly distributed but not too perfect and I don't like them on the outside branches. They have to be mostly tucked into the inner branches and then that way, the tree glows!
This picture's a bit blurry but the tree looks the best when you squint your eyes anyways...so this just helps paint that picture for ya!
Miranda putting on the candy canes (always!) We don't have the ornaments up yet. I have TONS of Hallmark ornaments that I've collected over the years but I don't think we'll do those this year. Just too many options swirling around in my head! Maybe I'll figure it out AFTER I do some decorating on our little plain Jane tree skirt!
Hope you have a happy happy week!
Pretty pretty! I agree with you that the lights need to be nestled on the inner branches. I don't like putting the lights on because I end up with itchy welts on my arms. I think the only way to avoid this would be leather gloves up to my elbows :)
Posted by: Lilli | December 17, 2006 at 07:37 PM
Even though w/out the ornaments yet-the tree is so beautiful already. Glen and Miranda did a great job picking your tree and you putting the lights are awesome!
Posted by: Malou | December 17, 2006 at 08:42 PM
Our tree has been up since the 3rd, but with lights only still!! Keep hoping to do a family decorating thing, but everyone's been too busy, so might "get" to decorate it myself tonight... It's been pretty tho! Yours is too!
Posted by: Jana | December 18, 2006 at 06:20 PM
That is just about a Perfect tree! Beautiful before and after decorations.
Posted by: GMa Jean | December 19, 2006 at 11:37 AM