4th Annual Christmas Tree Caper

For four years, it has been our tradition to carry our Christmas tree home over our shoulders. And just because Amanda is nine months pregnant, it does not change this tradition. (yes, she did carry it home over her shoulders hoping that it would induce labour) Nor, did the fact that it was pouring rain change our plans. The only thing that changed was that we got our tree at the end of November instead of the beginning of December.

For the past two years, we've added a trip to Starbucks for a hot drink to our tradition. It was there that two customers gave us the looks that we've come to look forward to. The "are you two crazy?" look. It makes us giggle every time. Our baristas were good natured about it. They've come to understand our craziness and congratulated us on our creativity.
Needless to say, the tree has been in our possession for five days and all that we have accomplished is putting up the lights, the tree topper and three decorations. Amanda has this strange dream of decorating the tree between contractions. Dan isn't too thrilled with this idea, but we've been too busy or tired or not in the mood to put anything on the tree. Hopefully we get it decorated before Christmas!