Todd decided we needed a real tree this year because the thought of putting the branches on one by one on our artificial tree sickened him! Seeing as this process always puts him in a bad mood and then he is useless decorating wise after the fact I thought this was a marevelous idea! He took a vacation day yesterday and we promised the girls we would check them out of school early and go buy the perfect tree! Well, little did we know it was going to flood! Parts of interstates were even forced to close down. It was crazy! After many prayers from the girls, the rain settled down to a little drizzle around 1:30 so Todd had me hurry and go get the girls. We went to Mary's Place (who was closed due to no electricity but the nice man let us buy a tree anyway!) picked out a beautiful tree, brought it home and the decorating began! The one we got was one of the first ones we saw. Todd actually saw it first and I think he knew it was the one but we kept looking. After carefully inspecting all the other trees we went back to it and took a family vote(all were in favor except for Camryn). Needless to say, she was out voted! It is so pretty and smells wonderful! We are very proud of it and this may be a new tradition for the McGuire's!
