Christmas!!!! (ish)

I am soooo excited for Christmas! This is the first year in my whole life that I do not know what I am getting!!! Usually I already know about all of my gifts being the little.... well a better term would be spy or detective... but I guess i'm a little bit of a snoop! ahh! I can't help it!!! It's so hard because I get to anxious... I think i've had a lot of other things on my mind though so I haven't really had the opportunity to think about it or do detective work... I can't lie though... I do know some of the gifts i'm getting.... BUT I have no iclue what Ben has gotten! so yes.. I am getting quite anxious:)
Last night Ben and I went out to do a little shopping and we still didn't have e tree... :( and I think Ben knew I reallly wanted one for our first christmas together... I mean isn't that just a priority??? If you can afford it?? He kept asking me if I wanted to get one but I didn't want to make him feel pressured... We really didn't NEED a tree but I would've liked to have one... So he said we would look around a little and maybe see if there was a cheap fake one at the store so we didn'y have to buy a live one that we would probably throw out at the end of the week. I liked this idea but kind of figured a tree wouldn't happen. We went to Target and made our way around the store eventually getting to the section where we had seen the fake tree's, they were 50% off! So of course we had to look around a little more and see what the best deal was that we could get. Apparently the tree's we were looking at we originally like $60.00 but they had been marked down to $30.00 and the actual display tree was 75% off! Heck ya! So we asked to have it taken down so we could buy it, we picked out some cute little ornaments that are my favorite color blue! (our wedding color) and some last minute christmas presents. We were told that the tree would just be on a large cart in the front of the store at one of the express lanes(It didn't come with a box but we didn't care!). When we got to the front we didn't have to wait in line at all, (woo hoo!) The cashier rang the tree up and it came up as the $30.00 half off price rather than the 75% off... I mentioned this to her and she went back to the tree shrugged and came back and took 75% off of the $30.00!!!!!! Hahahaha I wanted to tell her that the price of our pretty nice 5 foot tall fake "life like" spruce was ringing up as $7.50!! But the thing was is.. she knew!!! Ha! It was the collest thing it made our night! So to those of you who want a verrrry cheap christmas tree... just go a few nights before christmas... You might get lucky;) We have had so many blessings at the close of this year and we are soooo greatful for that! We also have learned the importance of paying our tithing. We hadn't payed for a few weeks so it was building up and we were stressing about it... We kept being short in the money area and it was like someone was taking money we had planned on being there. Ben missed a week of work for a hunt and it has felt like we haven't been able to catch up! I kept telling Ben we REALLLY needed to pay our tithing so finally this last sunday we did! After this lovely little shop we had at target, Ben called his account just to see how much it was saying there was and it was basiacally saying we were about to be overdrawn and we still needed groceries... We were both confused and upset because we had thought we had a few hundred more dollars. This morning he had a feeling he should call again and did, He had 300 more dollars in the account! Christmas miracle/blessing for being good??? I think so!!! We will never be not paying our tithing immediately again I can tell you right now! That was such an amazing experience! I love Ben so much and can't wait to have our first Christmas (and my birthday!!) together! Hope everyone has a very Merry and SAFE christmas!!


P.S. We WILL be getting our thankyou's out for wedding gifts soon!!:) incase people are wondering!! I'm so sorry we have RRREEEEAALLLY been slacking on that!