Friday night we went out to dinner with a friend from work and her husband and then we went to see Train at Five Points Music Hall. Friday was one of those never-ending, crazy busy, have 3 minutes to eat lunch kind of days, so I was happy when we finally sat down to eat dinner! Serena Ryder opened up for Train, and they were both awesome. I was stressing out all afternoon/evening because I got out of work super late and the concert was supposed to start at 7. We got there around 7:30, and they didn't come on until after 9! It was worth the wait though because they both put on really good performances. Then, after it was over, we went outside, and it was SNOWWWWWWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we frolicked in the snow for a few minutes before going home.
Saturday morning we helped our friend Kelly move. (And we woke up to snow on the ground! It all melted in about 5 minutes. But still, snow in DECEMBER in Alabama is rare!) Anyways, I'm going to formally name this move the Best Move of All Time. There were about 10 of us helping out and from start to finish it was a little over 2 hours.
Later in the afternoon we had everyone over to watch the SEC Championship game on the big screen (and sorry guys - I didn't start playing around with the tv settings until after everyone left and I figured out how to make football look even more awesome). Stacy brought Casper over and her and Bailey wrestled and played "Twilight" while everyone else hung out and watched the game.
Today we went to buy our Christmas tree. Now, that was an experience. So, a few weeks ago when I was running errands I saw that some people had set up a Christmas Tree lot in a vacant building lot on Route 31. There were big signs up that said it benefits the Jimmie Hale Mission, which we like to donate to around the holidays, so we decided to go there to get our Christmas tree this year instead of buying from corporate Lowe's. Well, we pull up and there is only 1 other car in the parking lot currently getting a tree loaded on top. There are a couple guys standing around a giant trash can with a fire in it. We park and walk up. These 2 guys stop us practically at the start of where all the trees are and tell us they have a beauty for us - freshly cut. (The one guy was standing there holding it like they were waiting for some "suckers" to come walking up). They asked us what size tree we were looking for and I said "Um, 7 feet would be fine." And the guy said they the one he just cut is almost 9 feet. Tom said "Well, we do have a high ceiling" so we ended up going for the almost 9 foot tree he just cut. Then he said the price. Then Tom had to catch me because I almost passed out. Not really. Actually I just got really quiet and didn't say anything else until we were off the lot. I'm not going to tell you how much it cost because I'm kind of embarrassed that we paid that much for a Christmas tree (in all honesty it was only $30 more than we paid last year). And at least this benefits the Jimmie Hale Mission. Here is our pretty tree and here is what Bailey was doing while I was decorating the tree.
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