Christmas tree shopping

a couple days back we shared of how we tried to go find a place to get a tree and everything was shut down. so we thought we would try again, so we pumped some Micheal w. smith tunes..."I'll lead you home" on the tape player and headed out, we now know all the words and are brought back to our child hood times as we sing along........ and here for all of you to see is our grand, huge tree for this year. we were so pumped to have found the right tree and we could hardly fit it into or small car,.... and as you can see we needed a ladder to get the star on top! alright maybe in reality its not quite as big as in our imagination but we are quite proud of our little addition to our place! (we had a laugh thinking about the massive tree we bought last year for Lynnette's parents...remember j&v?...well this year it didn't quite touch the celling as last year!) we call it our kisfa (little tree). we even found some cute wooden decorations for 2$ and a string of lights for even less, well kinda cause the first one fell apart while we tried to put it on the tree and almost gave us a 240 volt surprise. the bare wire was swinging precariously close to lynnette's leg at one point! our landlords caught us as we tried to bring it inside and informed us that according to our contract we weren't allowed trees. but after much begging and promises of letting Bernd watch soccer with me they allowed us, no just kidding they just laughed at our little tree as we dragged (more like carried it our arms) inside!