{"id":7884,"date":"2007-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/tree-decorating\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:00:00","slug":"tree-decorating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/tree-decorating\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree decorating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, we put up our Christmas tree.  It has been a few years since we had a real tree and this year was going to be no different.  I just don&#8217;t like to clean up the needles, or remember to water it.  I needed to get a new fake tree this year&#8230;.  Ours was a hand me down from my Mom,  (She gave it to us when she decided she wanted the pre-lit one from QVC. ) and I think was the ugliest fake tree ever.  The branches were spread so far apart, that even after re-arranging them, you had to add filler ornaments just so you couldn&#8217;t see though to the other side.  Plus, it was so tall, that we had to bend the top of it down and had to put a Santa hat on the top because no angel or star would fit.<br \/>\n   I went to Kmart since they were on sale and I can&#8217;t see spending a boat load of money on a tree&#8230;..  This baby was pre-lit and came in three pieces!  I was so excited when I got it together and turned on the lights!  Then I hear&#8230;.&#8221; Why are all the light white?&#8221;  What?  Are you kidding me?  I got an all white light tree!   I never even thought about looking to see if it had colored lights.  But, it was too late.  I was not taking this bad boy back.  It is nice though.  It really brightens up the room.  We still don&#8217;t have an angel for the top&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe kids had a blast decorating.  I turned on the Christmas music like we do every year when we decorate.  Kobe wanted to hang everything, and Braden put everything all in one spot on the bottom.  I just left them go.   Here are 2 shots of my Christmas joy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kobe-tree.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, we put up our Christmas tree. It has been a few years since we had a real tree and this year was going to be no different. I just don&#8217;t like to clean up the needles, or remember to water it. I needed to get a new fake tree this year&#8230;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}