Now that's a tree!

Well, that was a close one to get our new Christmas tree in the back of my car......AND all our groceries! We knew the tree box would be fairly large, but we didn't think it would be that big. If the box had been any longer it wouldn't have fit and as it was the width took up half the space of my small suv type car. The groceries got stuffed in, half of the bags set on top of the box where there was just enough space between the box and the ceiling.

But, it's all done now and we have some food again, at least for a couple of weeks or so. Thursday, mid day seem to be a good day to go to the city. Lots less traffic and people in the stores than Fri afternoons. Might have to consider that for future trips and just take a long long those days. We were gone about 1 3/4 hours (I had estimated 1 1/2) but we were both hungry and DH needed to pee, so we stopped at Wendy's, went inside, used the restrooms and got our order to go, otherwise we'd have been pretty close to only being gone an hour and a half. If we only had Walmart to go to, we could easily do in under an hour and a half round trip. And for about the first time in a long time, DH managed to do the drive without complaining about every little thing.

Since we had a fast food lunch, dinner was just salads.

We decided to unbox the tree, to make sure nothing was damaged and the lights work. OMG! it's HUGE!! I don't even think the picture shows how big it is. And this isn't even with all the branches "fluffed" out to fullness.

Other than the sections being pretty heavy, it was easy for DH to put together. As you connect each section it "plugs in" automatically for the wiring, so no extra plug ins to do, (like with my other fake pre-lit tree). The bottom plug in has a foot button to turn off and on, so you can leave it plugged into the wall. For $275, I'm super happy with it. It looks like it will last many years and is a perfect fit for that corner of the room and height.

I wish Target and Walmart were close and convenient, I'd be shopping for after Xmas clearance on ornaments, haha! They don't sell that clearance xmas stuff online. Gonna need more, I can tell. And a tree skirt. I'm going to look online at Kohls and see if they have a tree skirt. I have like $8 in Kohl's cash I just got recently - anniversary Kohl's cash or something like that.