O Christmas Tree

Although Thanksgiving is officially today, Jerome has already placed the Christmas tree up. As I am not totally into Christmas I helped, but not a lot. Last Saturday, we spent the day basically on a journey to put up said Christmas tree.

First, Jerome, Lewis, and I went to about a million stores before we decided to get a tree at Big Lots. We would've probably gone to two million stores, but Jerome had already made the rounds and so our total search time was abbreviated. Kevin got to skip out on the journeys earlier in the day because he went to the LSU football game with Todd.

Fast forward to we have the tree after standing in line for 30 minutes. Then we go to Hobby Lobby to look for the ornaments that will go on the tree. After an hour looking around and finding some tree ornaments, I walk out of the store with three Snowmen Volleyball ornaments. I LOVE THEM, they are sooooo cute. Jerome walks out with a plethora of silver and gold ornaments.

(Volleyball snowmen--love 'em--only two as the third is on the tree)

We then get home, open the box and tragedy of tragedies, the tree has colored lights when Jerome wanted clear lights. So, we all pile back into Lewis' Santa Fe and head back to Big Lots where we essentially become stockmen and push and pull box after box of tree until we can find the "perfect" Christmas tree.

We then get back to the house put up the tree and are excited to hang the ornaments when lo and behold, we don't have any hooks for the dang ornaments that we picked up at Hobby Lobby. So, it's back to the Santa Fe and a quick trip to Target (it's after 9pm by now), to pick up ornament hooks, and of course a tree topper. By this time, Kevin had returned from the football game and was driving us around as Lewis, Jerome and I didn't need to be driving anymore (if you know what I mean).

(Lewis and Jerome walking into Target after 9pm towards the end of our quest.)

After all this, we put the tree up and it looks FABULOUS! It was well worth the effort and has brought a home-y air into the place. It was fun day activity that we started at about noon and finished at about 10pm that night.

(The finished product)

(Jerome with his Christmas tree)

As an unofficial celebration our wonderful accomplishment. We went out to Olive Garden the next night.