Its Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

Jacob and I gave in to Christmas this week. I usually try to hold off until after Thanksgiving to start listening to Christmas music and decorating, but the bug bit us early this year. Actually it got Jacob first. He was listening to Christmas music when I got home from class one day and then it got me too. So while Jacob was at work today I cleaned our apartment and took down all of our fall decorations. Tonight we went out and bought a Christmas tree from K-Mart. It was only $20 which we were very excited about. Its a pretty good looking tree if you ask me, although I do miss the Christmas tree smell. We did not find a star that we liked. They were all disgustingly huge and not very pretty, so we stuck a bow on top.

Jacob did a good job with the lights. That is my least favorite part of decorating the tree.

Main Street in Rexburg is all lit up now too. The trees are wrapped with lights all the way up the branches. I wish I had a picture to share. That is my favorite part about Christmas here. All the lights add to the Christmas atmosphere and make the cold just a little bit more tolerable.

And here is a story for everyone who may be getting behind on filing important papers. On Sunday I decided get to the mess of papers that were waiting to be filed. Jacob keeps his check stubs for a while and so I decided to date the outside of the envelope in case he was looking for a particular one. I don't know why he would want to go back and look at check stubs, but I decided to do it anyways. Well, I was going through all of them and I found a check with out the voided stamp on it that he got it way back in April. Jacob just wasn't paying attention to the bonus check for $104 that he got for selling Melaleuca credit cards. So we ran out of the house in our pajamas to go to Wells Fargo with high hopes that the check wouldn't be voided after the normal 180 days. And sure enough, it went through! We are needless to say, very excited. Lesson learned. Keep up with the filing and double check your check stubs.