Choosing our Christmas tree is always a fun event but we were especially excited this year being in our new home. We've previously bought our trees at Home Depot but decided to try a place close to our new home. We unloaded and were all excited until we heard what they wanted for their trees. We promptly loaded back up and headed to Lowes where we found a wonderful tree for much, much, much less.
We lugged the tree up the stairs and began stringing the lights. We were almost complete when a strand of lights blew out. We thought nothing of it and replaced it. Then another strand went out. We decided we must have old lights and replaced it with a new set. Then the new set went out. The third time we realized we probably had a whole lot more strands connected than we should as our tree is much bigger this year. (I then read the light box and saw it said to only connect 5 strands. We had at least 12...oops!) We took all the lights off and restrung them using two separate outlets. We decorated the tree and got the vacuum out to begin clean up when CRASH; the tree fell down! Thankfully no one was hurt but it was pretty unnerving. Once again we began the process of putting it up, fixing the lights, and redecorating. The next morning we felt the tree was leaning again so we adjusted it. By the afternoon I was convinced it was going to fall and called Jimmy and told him he needed to come home for a "tree emergency". He did and we decided the plastic things on our tree stand were the problem. We removed them, rescrewed it and have since been enjoying our beautiful tree. What an adventure! The kids love the tree and have had so much fun decorating it and making more and more and more ornaments to put on it!
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