Christmas Prep and sickies

Our darn tree. It's huge and its "pre-lit." Not. This year we decided to tackle the HUGE job of de-lighting our 9 ft. tree. UGH it was not fun. After about 4 hours of just Chad and I working on it we got it done!

 Chad did a lovely job on the lights as always. We always get lots of compliments from it.

 We bought some new LED lights and Chad went to work fixing up the tree. And the next day I got to decorate it!

 Amid all of this fun, Carter caught the f'lu and Mollie got strep. On this particular visit we were there for Mollies checkup. Carter then puked all over the floor of the doctor office and I quickly cleaned it up. When Dr Rich came back in I explained what had happened. He asked if he had been tested for the flu....no, i didn't even know that was a thing. Sure enough! Full blown positive test, FLU! UGH!

 Which later had me like this.....

 And then I NEEDED to get out of that house! So me and my girls took a night off to go to the Festival of Trees. Such a great way to kick off the season!

 All trees I thought My kiddos would like.

 Here's the crew! Love these wonderful ladies!

 And a little better shot of all of us! Annette, Emily, Lola, Billie, Nannette, Alex and Me!

 Thanks girls for the fabulous fun night! It was much needed!