As many of you know, my wife and I are expecting a baby in December. With this pregnancy being pretty unpredictable (like any of them are) we decided to put the tree up early this year just in case we have the little guy early and then never get a chance to put up the tree. Last year we bought a pre-lit tree from Wal-Mart for like $30 and it definitely looked like a $30 tree, Charlie Brown's looked like the one in Times Square compared to this one...but we loved it because it was our first Christmas tree to own as a married couple. So after last Christmas we went to Target for all the after-Chrismas sales, and there it was, 7.5 feet of pure Christmas magic. It was normally some ridiculous price, $200+, that we got for $60. So we scooped it up and took it home, only we forgot that we were in Texarkana and we were also in my Mazda (let's just say the trip home was pretty tight). Needless to say we couldn't wait to break it out this year.
So Sunday night we busted it loose. We cleared out the corner of the living room where we planned to put the tree. I put together the base and then plopped in the bottom third. As I began to flatten out the branches we quickly realized we had purchased a beast of a tree and our apartment walls might not be able to contain it's Christmas girth. So we decided to move it to the dining room where it now takes up the whole room (not that it was that big to begin with but seriously this tree was not intended for apartments).
Now we sit at night with sunglasses on while watching television because of the small sun standing tall in the dining room. But hey it's a pretty sweet tree if I don't say so myself... but you can be the judge...
(for the photogs: f/3.5 @ 1/50sec. ISO1600)
(for the photogs: f/3.5 @ 1/50sec. ISO1600)
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