Deck the Halls

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Funny story about our tree:
It had been a long Saturday of shopping but we had one more thing on our list. A tree. I usually over think the tree shopping to where Jon wants to just go buy a fake one so I have that perfect tree every year and we don't have to visit 7 different tree lots (no exaggeration, it happens, ask him). This year he was in luck, I was so tired and wanted to get home ASAP. He pulled up next to Home Depot. I ran in and found out how they were priced. 4 different colors of tags, each color representing a different price, range from $25-$65. Orange tags represent the $25 dollar trees, so I ran down the isle and bear hugged the tallest orange tagged bundle I could see and waddled to the front with it. I was in and out in about 2.3 minutes. Jon could not believe how easy it was. I had no idea is it was a good pick or not because it was all wrapped up. When we got home we cut the ties and let it fall. As the tree warmed up and the branches fell they laid perfectly. I could not believe we had got so lucky. It was gorgeous. As I was inspecting my perfect tree I noticed some garbage in it. I pulled it and it was stuck, pulled harder and off came a green tag. I remembered back to an hour earlier when I looked over the color/price chart at the store. I distinctly remember seeing green tags and telling myself that those trees were off limits, don't even look. They were the $65 trees. I double checked and sure enough the orange tag was still on the bottom, so I felt like we were honest about it. I am not sure what happened that my tree was once or supposed to be $65 but it sure looks expensive so lucky us I guess.