Getting Into the Spirit

Thanks to Veteran's Day, I had the day off. And since Jason did not, I had the day off to myself. I used it to go check out Christmas decorations. Jason should be happy I tackled this venture by myself since it ended up taking me nearly 4 hours. In Meyerland, there is a Hobby Lobby, Lowe's, Target, Kirkland's, and Wal-Mart all within a mile of each other so I price shopped before I made any decisions. In the end, nearly all of my purchases were from Hobby Lobby since all Christmas decorations were 1/2 off.

As we are finally settled into a house of our own, we decided it was time to purchase a full-size tree. Due to our limited space in this house, I went with a slim 7.5 foot pre-lit pine. It really wasn't a great day to be running around town because it was raining cats and dogs, but my new car handled loading the tree in the rain a breeze. It literally took about 0.3 seconds to flip the seat down and slide it in. Impressive.

Seriously, impressive enough to take a picture.

Here's the loot I ended up with. Most of that is just ornaments for the tree, but I did get a couple of decorations for our front yard. We actually have no outdoor outlets, so we won't be able to put up Christmas lights. I figured we could put our Christmas tree in our sun room so people can see it through our front windows. I think I'll still put our small apartment tree up in the living room so we have something pretty to look at in the evenings.

The loot.

Close-up.

Jason wanted to know if we are putting the tree up tonight, but I think we should wait to at least the weekend before Thanksgiving. Have to appreciate all of the holidays before jumping straight to Christmas.

I'm really looking forward to both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Only 8 more days of work before we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving. I can't wait!