Goodbye Tree!

Nick is outside right now taking the lights off of it. The tree stopped taking water about a week before Christmas, so it wasn't good. We wanted to keep it up through our "Christmas morning" with Nick's family on the 29th, and today was the first chance we had to drag it outside. I took the ornamanets off yesterday and it made a huge mess. Nick started to take the lights off this morning and decided it would be easier to do it outside. We got it onto the tarp to drag it outside and it sounded like a rain stick so many needles fell off!

Yesterday we got to hang out with Smeeta - she is in town for the very end of her winter break. She, Katie, Krista and I went shopping then had lunch at B Dubs while our guys (and Ed) got the ice house set up on the lake and built a new roof on it. Sounds like I won't be seeing Nick for a while!

The play-offs seem to be going well. Seattle beat Washington so we'll be playing them on Saturday. Matt Hasselbeck got it out of his system already, starting with post-game press conference with "We want the ball and we're gonna score!" before anyone could even ask for it. Pittsburgh fell to the Jags and the Tampa Bay-New York game just started, tied at zero six minutes into it. GO PACK GO!