How long should it take to find a Christmas tree when you’re not hauling your ass out into the woods and cutting it down?

Not two hours.

Unless you live in Atlanta. Then? Well, you can only find a decent tree after you’ve searched hundreds of bundled up trees (Why? Atlanta? Why do you ruin trees like this?) at three different places.

And in your driving to said locations, you are *almost* hit by 17.58 cars because wherever they were going was totally more important than the space you were occupying. Assholes.

But, we found a tree! Tim and our Noble Fir at Lowe’s (Yes, Lowe’s…)

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And how long does it take to decorate a tree, a fireplace, a railing and a light?

If you guessed NINE HOURS, you’re so right.

It was partially Lexi’s fault. I mean, how do you resist this face + jingle bells?

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Mr. Noble all decorated

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When Tim sees this post, the first thing he’ll think? WHY didn’t you put up a nighttime picture? Nighttime pictures are so much better.

Well, Mr. Photographer, thing is, I’m not God and I cannot exactly *make* nighttime. It’s totally a sham, I know. But you may be on to something with the whole darkness thing…

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(this is from a few years ago…we don’t put presents under the tree in the beginning of December…that’d be too tempting for me. Tim would come home from work to a house full of wrapping paper and I’d be sitting in the middle of it, playing with my new toys all, “YAY! PRESENTS!” And he’d look at me like, It’s December 5th. The hell?)

The Mantle (fireplace…whatever. We probably need to upgrade to “Peace-Joy” cause the stockings for Lexi, Alegre, Gracie and Chloe are all sitting on the coffee table…)

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Lexi…still being a major source of distraction.

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The stair rail (that only goes up what? 4 steps? Totally not very disabled-friendly. Broken leg? Well, I hope you’ve got awesome balance. Good luck on steps 5 – 14) It sort of resembles a disaster with lots of glitter…Chloe and Gracie are trying to figure out how to pull off the plastic berries without getting caught. Right now they’re being all, “Leave me alone. I’m not doing a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g…”

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Tim, Maddie and Lexi (and yes, Maddie is wearing socks…she’s still “recovering” from her massive infection)

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The light…that I tried to decorate…but the result kind of looked like a pine tree and the light fixture got into a massive disagreement that the pine tree totally won. A massacre that leaves the light fixture at a 45 degree angle doesn’t really put anyone in the “holiday spirit” so Tim fixed it and they’re getting along, now.

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We still have the outside to do…yay?