So I am feeling a little Christmasie.
This year is the first Christmas Jen and I will have together as a married couple. It is also our third Christmas together as a couple. I just felt like celebrating that a little. Here are our Christmas trees through the years.
2007, our first Christmas. The tree stood in Jen's apartment in Salem, NH. It was a real tree (do they still make wooden Christmas trees?) which, strictly speaking, was against the complex rules. We had to sneak it in, and then after we took it down we had to sneak it out. Sneaking in is easy, you just wait till no one is around and run up the stairs with it. Sneaking out... that's tougher. After a couple of weeks it starts raining pine needles. That is a dead give away. So we cut the tree up into small pieces and carried it out in trash bags and left it in the dumpster. Call us criminal masterminds.
2008, our second Christmas together, but our first in our new home in Methuen. Our half-a-house's living room was a bit too small to accommodate a tree without moving out all of the furniture so we had to think of a new solution. We ended up putting it in the dining room. We got a small table top sized tree for the living room too, just so we could always have a tree with us while watching and re-watching Rudolph and Frosty.
There was a bit of an adventure getting rid of this tree as well. We took it down the week after New Year's and brought it outside for the trash collection. I put it in our little mini flower garden spot in front of the house. Between that day and the next trash day we got bombarded with snow. Most of which was shoveled off of the side walk and drive way onto our little mini flower garden spot. Burying the dead tree under four or five feet of snow. After the snow melted the trash collectors wanted nothing to do with it. We'd missed our window. The tree is now hiding safely in a mysterious place where no one will ever find it. Shhhhhh.
I have yet to do the annual photographing of the Christmas Decorations in the House so you're going to have to deal with this already-been-posted-here picture of the 2009 tree. Once again it stands in the dining room, but this time it's artificial. No more finding mysterious hiding places for dead evergreens for us. We still need to pick up our special-for-this-Christmas ornaments, although the kids have made a couple. That should happen this weekend. I'd also like to try and hang some lights on the stairs in the living room, if time permits. It doesn't matter though, because I love our tree. Our first tree as a married couple.
I would like to close with a topical yet dirty joke a coworker told me yesterday. What's the difference between Santa and Tiger Woods? Santa stopped after three Ho's. ZING!
Merry The-Last-Christmas-Gift-Has-Been-Purchased Day!
silly puppy - they city takes the trees away
ReplyDeleteyou just have to dump it in the big pile at the stadium - but don't worry they make that real tree smell stuff in a spray can now.