Yeah, what happened with your tree??

Even though I bought ALL of those lights, we ended up just going simple this year (so far!). We bought two little potted fake trees for on each side of the front door, and I used two strands of my new lights for those. Then we have bulbs along our rooflines, like every year. I bought some big felt bows and put them on the railing of the deck above the front porch. And that's it!

Our roofline LEDs are starting to crap out :( This is our 3rd or 4th year using them and there are probably 10 or so that are not working anymore. I thought LEDs weren't supposed to burn out!

Last weekend we did our inside decorating. Here is a picture of our tree (no presents yet, because I still have to wrap them!) and our stockings - DH and I on the ends, and the dogs in the middle :D

I had a smaller one before to compare it to that I used as an extra decoration so I had something to compare it to. This bigger tree came with one of its ornaments with a piece broken out of it and one broken off. It seemed dusty! The insides of the ornaments that covered the dedicated-color limbs fiber-optic ends were cloudy appearing compared to the old one I had. That old one's globes were pristine and shiny even after a few years. I just never could accept that it looked old or the result of poor Q.C. Finally, I just wrote them via Amazon and they are going to pick it up, refund me.

Now I have to either get the big tree in several pieces where it is packed away out in the garage, hose those storage containers down to get the dust off, drag them in the house one by one, get out all its zillions of candy ornaments and finally, when it is all in this house, get it up and drag/stack the big plastic containers back in the garage. It's a half a day of h e _ _ !!! I'd rather just buy a pink or red or white pre-lit tree this year I think and add some bows - anything quick and easy on the hip replacement. Danny is in Oklahoma working for 6 weeks so he can't help and my ex is working 24/7 so he's no help. I'm so bummed that my hoped-for, pretty, pretty tree that could have been so lovely turned out to be sloppily made or poorly stored or something. Now, I start all over with the tree.

My stupid tree I had to have is large enough I am sure I could chop off half and send you and we both would still have a large tree :p

Oh, send it, send it. LOL. That half would be better than nothing! Actually, I am kind of looking forward to a little pink tree or something this year - kind of a pared-down Christmas. Always wanted something offbeat!

Target has the tempur cutest littke funky colored trees, pink, purple, blue, gold etc.

A little girl was "making" grandma buy her a pale pink odd like missing half the branches tree for her bedroom the other night at Hobby Lobby, she was giving the puppy dog eyes that no grandparents can say no to lol