Christmas Part II – The Light Of the World

When we got home from picking out the tree, Vince was exhausted and fell asleep on the couch. Joseline helped decorate. Okay, so mostly she just played in the decorations and stared at the Christmas lights.

A few weeks later we put up lights outside. Russ just climbed up on the roof (we have a pretty flat roof – no need for peaks in a place where it never snows) and stuck them to the gutter with these cool little clippy things we bought forever ago. We bought those our second Christmas and this is the first year we have ever put them on our house. This happens to be our 5th Christmas. Yeah, so we’ve been busy the last few years.

Vince loved that we put up lights outside (he was awake for that part, and even helped). We had to string the lights under the kitchen door and plug them in where the toaster oven is plugged in because there are no outlets outside (actually, I found out a few weeks after Christmas that there perhaps are outlets outside… but I guess it doesn’t matter now…). Well, one day Russ used the toaster oven and unplugged the outside lights, and didn’t plug them back in. No big deal, because we try to unplug them during the day anyway. We went out to run errands and got home after it started getting dark. Vince got out of the car and realized that the lights weren’t on outside and flipped out. Seriously, he had a total meltdown until we plugged the lights in. He was so excited to help put up the lights that he wanted to make sure they were turned on at night!