School is done…for now

Our Christmas tree is up, our school books are tucked away and we’re ready for a well earned break.

Now even though we did this a while ago, this is our unofficial Christmas blog (in case i actually ever get around to writing an official one) So, Here are the stockings we made. Mine is the…well I’ll let you guess who’s is who’s:

We’re sad to see friends go, but happy that they get to move on to bigger and better adventures. We’re sitting at home after a little adventure of our own.

Yesterday we climbed a mountain—ok i’m exaggerating, it was a 3-5 mile hike—and we were up there, fully intending to chop down our Christmas tree. anyway, after we got up there, i took a little nap. when i woke up Jake said he’d heard a man talking and we both got the heebie jeebies—that would be the holy ghost talking to us—and we packed up, tired, stinky and treeless and came down the mountain the same night. (We had planned to stay the night, cut down our tree in the morning and then hike down). anyway, we made it home around 8:30ish and took showers, unpacked all the gear, watched Amazing Grace and went to beddy bye.

Since we were still treeless this morning, we found ourselves at the PX on Schofield Barracks, Wal*Mart in Mililani, and then Target in Kapolei. We finally found a tree (neither of the other places had one, but luckily for us Target carries 2 ft, $8 trees.) So instead of buying a live one (the PX had trees, not Christmas trees just regular ones) for $60, we bought lights, a wooden cranberry bead chain…thing, a tree, a drink and a 2011 planner (for me) all for a grand total of $30. :) we saved half of what we’d have paid. And we visited my parents to say hello and mooch off their leftovers.

And so we’ve been out of school for two days and we’ve already had amazing and fantastic adventures!  Here are some shots of our amazing little tree. :)

 

Merry Christmas!