Merry Christmas!

I love Christmas! Typically we make the drive back to the Carolina's to spend some quality time with both familys and friends. However this year we will spend Christmas Day at home in Texas. This is only the 2nd time since Paul and I have been together that we actually put a tree up, decorated the apartment and pretended to be normal. :)



So we waited until December 15th to wander over to lawn and garden center at Lowes (where we get our tree) only to discover a barren garden center with a few trampled trees left. Sold out of Christmas trees.....who knew!?!


The friendly clerk informed us that the Southlake Lowes still had plenty of trees left and we should have a much wider varietly to select from. While they did have more, I would not call it a variety by any means (imagine what is left of after a vicious forest fire takes down several acres....yeah that was our selection). However I would like to point out that WE WAITED UNTIL 10 DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. So....we got what we deserved for waiting that long.



Praise God, there was this one great tree that for some reason was still there (maybe someone returned it, can you return a christmas tree?). So we loaded it onto the cavalier (my tough urban 4 wheel drive car) and prayed like crazy that it didn't launch itself off my car and into heavy traffic on HWY 114. Paul is so cute, he even got to provide advice on tying down trees on tiny cars to a mazda driving shopper.



We made it home and began decorating the tree only to realize we had one, make that two big problems. Menya and Jodie, our two cats we lovinly refer to as "The Girls". As fast as we were putting the ornaments on the girls were knocking them off. So as you can see below we came up with a not so great solution. NO ornaments within paw or jumping range, which successfully limited my decorating abilities and has left our tree half naked. However, we did notice that their yarn cat toys make great stand ins for real ornaments and give the tree a "country" feel to it.


The final result was something I'm quite proud of. Its not decorater savvy or anything outstanding, but I like it. The girls have seemed to of lost interest in the tree, but I'm sure when our living room is covered in wrapping paper sometime in the next 6 hours their interest will be renewed. I'm actually surprised no one has attempted to scale it yet.