Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

Hello, Hello everyone!! There is one week left until Christmas, and since I will be leaving town early next week to go visit family, I will not be able to post anything. So on the topic of Christmas, I'd like to invite you into our home during this SPECIAL holiday. SPECIAL holds many meanings for this blog because of the following: It's my man's and my first Christmas together in our home, this is the first time I have put up a real tree since I was little bitty, this was the first time I got to put decorations up both inside and outside of the house, AND because the majority of the ornaments on the tree were hand picked individually by me and my man.

If you didn't catch that last part of the last sentence, please re-read it....and ask yourself why I would allow HIM to pick ornaments?? OR why would I let him go shopping with me?? Maybe you can help me figure out the answer, because I sure as heck don't!

Exhibit A: These are the types of filler ornaments we used. They are simple, elegant, and do the job.

The following of which you are about to view is the mistake of allowing my man to roam the store and ALLOW him to pick out special ( in hopes that they are pretty, sweet, elegant...etc.) ornaments for our tree that will make it more personal. Well, it was personal all right.

Exhibit B: What you don't want your man to come back with (MINE DID!). A pink flamingo with a cocktail and a HOT PINK polka dot chicken with acutal feathers on it...UM YUCK!

What in the heck was I thinking letting him help me with shopping?!?! Your guess is as good as mine. Although my tree is now festive and makes me want to enjoy what that flamingo is drinking (in hopes that it will blur my image of what they really look like, into something more "fancy")...I'll be slightly happy to see these boogers get packaged up for a year. Having them around, however, reminds me constantly of my ever so humorous man who enjoys a good laugh or two even at my expense. You gotta love em ladies....you just gotta love your men!

Enjoy your Chrismas everyone!! And have a drink...on the flamingo!

Cheers,

The girl without a traditional Christmas ornment (Megan)