3200 Lights!
We’ve been buying up lights to decorate the outside of our house for about a month now. We decided to frame the house with purple lights and light up the bushes in front of our house with red. Then a blue swag light set in front of the garage. Ralph and Denise knew of our plans and seemed excited to help us.. (I mean, Ralph called last week and was like a kid saying “so can we come help with the lights this weekend??) hehe
So they came over early Saturday and we took a trip to Lowe’s. There we picked up a 60″ reindeer for the front yard and some other electrical gadgety stuff they boys said they needed. Then we went to Wal*Mart and got a few more decorations and lights for outside (and this is where we actually came up with the red on the bushes idea…) plus some ornaments for the tree.
We came home and took inventory of what we had then set about getting the lights on the house. The boys said they needed another part so they sent me & Denise to Fred Meyer. We came back and it was our job to get the bushes done. We didn’t have enough lights for the bushes. So Denise and I had to go back to Wal*Mart. Luckily they had JUST enough boxes left of the red lights we wanted so I bought them all and we came back home.
It took us all day to complete the project. But the end result was well worth it! Jack and I have never decorated a house like this before so it was a learning experience. It should be much easier next year.
Overall it was a fun day (despite the little frustrations here and there) and our house is positively glowing! Literally! lol
Today we’re taking all the kids and going with Ralph and Denise to go cut down our first REAL Christmas tree in years! I can’t wait!
Guys, it was very fun doing all the decorating with you all (even the kids were great!) i couldn’t ever imagine or even think of asking for better friends then you have been to us, and I just wanted to say thankyou for being so loving and for inviting us into your family as it were.
Your house looks like a winter wonderland, without the snow! You all did a beautiful job! It was nice meeting you Ralph and Denice.