officially over

Well Christmas and the holiday season is now officially over in our house.  We finished boxing up the rest of the decorations and hauled them into the attic just a few minutes ago.  It always makes me so sad.

The house looks so blah now that all the festive decor is put away.  BUT we did decide to do something fun with the largest Christmas decoration we had...our tree.

Yep, that's right.  We stuck it in the ground in our backyard.  It will probably stay green for a few weeks and the needles should stay on for a while.  Eventually we are going to grind it up and use it as mulch in the backyard.  Awesome huh!

Now I guess its back to normalcy.