Anyway so we ended up getting a nice Christmas tree. It was more $$$$ than we expected, but i guess that is what we get for living in Idaho and trying to get a oregon looking tree right? So we went on Saturday the 13th and drove around tree hunting. We had originally planned on going out to cut one down but it was blizzarding and we went with plan 'B', the lots on in the grocery store parking lots...... well crazy as it may seem, rexburg didn't have any of those... so we decided to drive to a gas station that we had seen selling them between rexburg and rigby. So we drove up and looked around. This is what we found... well this isn't the exact tree but this is what it looked like...I MISS OREGON TREES!!!!!!!
So we were like, well there really isn't much out there so these really are not too bad right? so lets go find out how much they are. We went inside to ask the guy and he told us it was 25 for the shorter ones and 35 or so for the taller ones!!!! WE though he was kidding at first because seriously these trees looked like branches that were just cuts off of a big tree that you would see in my back yard in Oregon.... and they wanted 35$$ for the branches that fell so freely in my parents back yard... i laugh and the guy looked a little offended, we just told him we were used to Oregon trees and that this was not something we were used to calling' Christmas trees'. Don't get me wrong we were nice, but this guy was a little older gentleman that reminded me a lot of scrooge... well kinda. He went on to tell us that those tree's were amazing for Idaho and we were not going to find anything better. Anyway the other guy working the counter followed us out and told us about a place we could go to get a better cheaper tree. So we went to the place he told us, and the lady went on to tell us that they only had 4 left and they were little guys, they looked kinda like this:
So we laughed when she told us 40 $$$$ Well to make a long story short we ended up paying about 35 $$ for this tree:
It was way more than we wanted to pay but it was really all there was out there that was this decent. The funny thing way that she said they shipped the trees in from Oregon like three days before that... ahhhhh an Oregon tree.... So nick and i had a fun time decorating it, and re- enacting scenes from the last office episode....
MY HORN CAN PIERCE THE SKY!!!! man i love the office, it cracks me up. For Christmas we got lots of snow, i mean lots of snow, the difference between Oregon and here though is when we get this much snow nothing closes down, they just plow it and expect you to get to church, in Oregon you better have food storage, because you are snowed in and NOTHING is open, not even gas stations! I can't believe oregon got 16 in! that is record for Oregon, i sure do miss it, but i am glad that i am not snowed in. Here is some snow that was in our front yard....
Nick and I slept in Christmas morning and then ate some cinnamon rolls, and made our way over to the tree to open presents at about 10 or so, I think this was nick's first year sleeping in ever on Christmas... it was fun to just have it be us though. Then we lounged around the rest of the day until about 5 or so and we went to heather's and keith's for Christmas dinner. It was SSSOOOO good, Keith made a Delicious ham that i literally couldn't stop eating , and there was rolls, mashed potatoes, salad, and cheesecake and cinnamon rolls, um it was awesome...... but i am still full today ha. So here are a few pictures of that.....
So now nick and i are just hanging out enjoying our time off of work. We both are pretty much the only ones staying around in our apartment building and a lot of the people in our ward went home for Christmas too, so naturally we both have big things to do for Sunday. Nick got asked to do a musical number in Sacrament meeting, and i get to teach R.S. which i have never done and i am nervous. Anyway i will update again later, we start school in about 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited even though i will be taking about 16 credits, which will be hard, i am so excited because i am enrolled in a bunch of dance classes, for my new dance major i got into, i am nervous for some of them but so so so excited at the same time. Thank you to everyone who helped to make Nick and I's Christmas special, being in school things get tight with $$ and we had a lot of things come up at the last minute, we are just so grateful for family and friends who really look out for us and care for us, we wouldn't have been able to do it without you..we are so blessed and really enjoyed christmas together this year..... happy holidays... we miss all of you in Oregon!! - amanda
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