Eric and Leslie’s Family Blog

We finally got the Christmas tree out.  Eric and I decided that it would be better if we got the tree out and lights strung while Noah was asleep, then have him help decorate it the next day.  So 10:00 Thursday night we started getting everything together.  No problems with the tree…but the lights on the other hand.   We had so many problems with the ones we had last year, we ditched those and bought new ones.  The problem with those you might ask?  There were 2 strands of motion lights that were the exact same brand and bought at the same time.  However they didn’t do the same motion, so trying to get the tree to look somewhat uniform was a pain in the behind.  Half of the tree would be blinking, while the other half was on the chasing setting.  So got new ones last year, no problem.  Well Tuesday night the drama of the Christmas lights continued.  Plugged in the first set and every 3rd light wasn’t working.  So began the process of finding the burnt out bulb.  Found that one without a problem, got it replaced and moved on to the next strand.  Plugged that one in and everyother light was out.   The feeling of frustration continues!  Eric went through the whole strand and couldn’t find the problem bulb.  As he was doing that, I hung the first strand of lights.  Oh well we were thinking…the bottom half of the tree will just have every other light out.  Got all the lights on and plugged it in…you wouldn’t believe what happened…the first strand started acting up again.  So now our tree had every other light all the way down not working.  The lighting is alittle pathetic but there was no way I was going to take them all off and string the lights again!

It’s nice and decorated now and can hardly tell the light situation…except those of us that know the drama of the lights   Noah surprisingly did great helping put the ornaments on.  He kept hanging everything on the same branch, but oh well…mommy moved them as he put them on

Noah also found some bell ornaments, began shaking them and singing jingle bells.   Tried to catch it on video, but can’t figure out how to put a video on here.  Check out the picture gallery for Christmas related pictures!