Happy Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving was very fun. We started our trip in Saginaw on Wednesday night for the Spirit game. Then we finished the trek to my parent's house in Detroit, where we had a very tasty dinner of turkey and all the fixings. My favorite part about the trip was getting to spend time with my nieces and my week old nephew. It was a great time, and it could not have come sooner because I was missing home and my family.
Now that we are back in Mt. Pleasant it was time to put up the Christmas tree. I had been tossing around the idea of not even putting up a tree this year since the new house is still a mess and all. But the Christmas spirit got the better of me, so I got out the tree that we got at the end of last season. We were excited to see what it looked like put up since it was coming out of the box for the first time. Well, our excitement was cut short very quickly. We didn't have 4 branches up yet and already they were shedding 5 inch long pieces of fake pine, not to mention the tree was about 5 inches too tall for our low ceilings.
After messing with the tree for a while we had just about had it and were ready to dump it behind the local Goodwill. My lovely and innovative husband started to modify the base and trunk of the tree. He eliminated about 2 1/2 foot of the height and after the branches were not it was pretty full, though it does have an "hourglass" shape to it. I call it good enough for this year....Next year we try out a real tree.