Finally....done with decorating

Well we started decorating for Christmas last week (after Thanksgiving of course) and here we are one week later and have just finished up. Now it wasn't because we didn't want to, I wanted it done last Sunday, but the weather just wasn't cooperative with all the rain we got and David has some serious issues getting on the roof, I didn't think it would be smart to make him get on it while it was wet. :P

Today we finally got the chance to finish the outside by hanging the wreaths on our 2nd story windows, but I hope no inspectors come by cause I have got some serious extension cord tangles going on. Why don't they make the cords longer, how many houses have an outlet 6 inches from a window, I mean come on, would hurt to have the cord maybe 12" or 14" long??? You can always hide it if it is too long, but it is hard to make it inconspicuous when you have to add a 15 extension cord. I have extension cords plugged into extension cords that are plugged into more extension cords, and luckily haven't blown a fuse, YET!!! My power bill is probably going to be sky high this month.


Anyway here are some pics of our decorations inside and out....and yes I know we have the perfect yard for the big blow-ups of Santa and Frosty, but it ain't gonna happen...well except maybe for the Reindeer barn or maybe Santa in a helicopter on top of our garage....no, I really am kidding mom, no big blow-ups at the Carson house.

Why is it???

Why is it when you plug up Christmas lights before you start to string them on anything they work just fine, BUT once you have them strung and you plug them in half the strand isn't lit up??? I mean seriously how is that possible to work fine one minute and not the next???

After a wonderful Thanksgiving meal at the Golden Corral (we don't eat with anyone but us) we start pulling decorations out. This year we have a new house, so we were waiting till after Christmas to buy a new tree, but came across a great priced UN-LIT (what was I thinking??) 9ft tree and I had the brilliant idea of why don't we just string the lights ourselves and leave them on when we take it down. Though we did come out much cheaper going the old fashioned way, in hindsight I should have waited till the pre-lits went on sale Dec. 26th!!! And after what seemed like an eternity we have the lights strung and have started hanging ornaments, the bottom 2, yes 2 (brand new) strands are bad-what are the chances of that happening??? So we went again this morning to swap the bad lights for new, get them strung, get the garland up, plug it in and you guessed half of the dang strand is out, luckily I just had to replace a bulb cause if that hadn't worked you would have heard about it on the news..."House demolished due to crazy woman tearing down Christmas decorations".

All in all though we have almost finished, just have the outside left and please say a prayer cause my hubby has to get on the roof and believe me when I say he is NOT looking forward to it!!




Oh and to all my Auburn friends, WAR EAGLE always!!! We will come back stronger than ever next year (hopefully)!!! And to all my BAMA friends....please ROLL the TIDE over the Gators next week!!!