we were headed out for our Friday Night Date Night =)
The minute Halloween is over… and I am meaning 12:01 AM (November 1)… I bring out the Christmas Decorations!
I think Christmas is the one day a year I LOVE MOST!!!
I love the coming together of friends and families. I love the lights.
I love the smell in the air… and I am not sure its even different.
I love the love.
I Adore it. I Love it. I Live for It.
This year my new husband and I needed to go buy a tree. We wanted a real
one but we thought of the amount of time we will be at home to take care of it- – it was not good idea.
So we went with a fake.
We go to the store and in my mind I am thinking of the most LUSH,
BEAUTIFUL, THICK, EYE PIERCING GREEN, tree. Not too tall…. just right. I had Matt come take a look at the box before purchase and he said ‘it looks good!’
(Seriously though, what is he going to say? Kari I think this tree you picked out is lame…)
And I found it! I found the perfect first tree for us… to celebrate our first Married Christmas Together. And what a celebration it will be!!!!
Now onto the decorations… which wasn’t easy
I wanted my wedding colors… Red and Silver..
The look on his face said it all ‘really? Can’t we do something different??’
On the count of 3 we each called out a color and no matter what.. those are our tree colors…
(imagine us in the middle of the store, with tons of people around…)
1… 2….3…
Kari: SILVER
Matt: GREEN
huh?
I looked at him bewildered…
’the tree is green….really… you want it to be green, but the tree is green…???? ’
*I am sorry, at that precise moment I had to put my foot down*
Ok.. lets try it again..
1…2…3
Kari: SILVER
Matt: Blue
So there it is…
Silver and Blue.
Once we got home, I was sooo eager on getting that tree up I ripped open the box and start setting it up.
Hmm…
Kari : ’matt…? where is the rest of the tree? ’
Matt: ’ what? What do you mean…? ’
That’s right folks, Our tree is 4ft high. He knew that all along and assumed I knew. I didn’t even think about how tall 4 feet is…. in all the excitement of picking out a tree.
Its the kind of tree people put in their front porch…
And the worst part…
Its not even symmetrical.
The left side caves in… its not the beautiful triangle shape..
To give you a better idea with the height of the tree:
*Our TV is taller than our Christmas Tree…maybe I should put it on top of that. Maybe then the little guy will get noticed.
*Our medium sized plant is taller than our Christmas tree..(we had to move it, because well that’s just embarrassing lol
*I think the only presents that can fit under our tree are chocolate bars… about 5.
*If you are sitting by the tree… you are almost taller than it.. (PROOF below)
*Our knees are taller than our Christmas Tree… (ok, now I am being dramatic…
but it is pretty close! I may have to bring out the tape measure.)
And of course, we bought wayyy to many decorations for this little guy. Wayyy to many.
Afterall, I was expecting a giant of a tree.. the tree of all trees… but with this little guy there are only so many branches..
i may soon have to double them up with decorations just to use them..but i fear it might weigh em’ down.
If its not balanced.
So there it is…
Our First Christmas Tree… and it’s a mini… a very little mini. but now I cant return it,
well because… its a memory. Its us. Its our first Christmas as husband and wife.
It only makes sense that we would be the only couple in the world to buy a mini tree by accident.
It’s who we are.
we’re just like that.




























