Thursday, November 5, 2009

Our New Tree...It's Just Not the Same...

...remember back in June when I posted about the City hiring a company to fix our sewers without telling us? Then in July they said they would replace our tree that the company killed? The tree that was our first Christmas tree together....well, November 5 they finally came to fix it.

Here is a picture of Matt planting our first Christmas tree in our front yard March 15 of this year.


Here it is today...
Here is the new one...

I know I should be excited because it is fixed and even better than the one we had but...it had sentimental value. It was a tree that we planted so every time we looked at it, we remembered our first Christmas together as a married couple, a tree so that when we moved there was still a part of us and memory for the new family that moved in. Since Matt is a landscaper, he's going to try to save the other tree and put it in the backyard but we both have little hope for it. So while we got the new tree, it's bittersweet because that means good bye to our first Christmas tree together.

5 comments :

Angie said...

The new one is sooo pretty! I hope he can save the old one tho.

Cecilia said...

I know it's not the same, but your new tree is very pretty.

Meredith said...

I hope he can save the old one...I am totally sentimental like that too!

Cecilia said...

We re-use our water bottles too if we buy them. When, K-Mart was doubling coupons, I stocked up on Rubbermaid bottles. :)

Angie said...

I wish my hubby was even a fraction of sentimental like you and Matt are - I try but he doesn't care so I give - up LOL - figure that's what girlfriends are for!!