Sunday Shopping!

It was time for us to make a trip to Lexington to go to Sam's Club. We called and invited my mom to go with us, and also decided to take a detour to Gordmans! Now, I just discovered Gordmans about a month ago (also, on our monthly trip to Sam's Club). We spent about $70, and we were only in the store for about 30 minutes! Sadly, I didn't find much to strike my fancy today. I did purchase a Paula Deen candle (regularly $12, on sale for $6.99), it's called Fresh Fruit Pizza. All of her candles are named after her recipes. This candle smells SO GOOD! So good, in fact, that I looked up her recipe for Fruit Pizza and I believe that I will be making it in the near future! If you would like the recipe, click here.

After our detour to Gordmans, we made our way to Sam's Club. It seems like we ALWAYS end up going on a Sunday, which is always a MISTAKE! Sam's Club is a mad house on Sundays! I guess everyone is gearing up for the week ahead.

Anyway, I found this BEAUTIFUL pre-lit 6' artificial Christmas tree in an urn. Mind you, I had been watching the Countdown to Christmas on QVC today, and saw a tree that looked JUST like the one at Sam's Club. However, it was battery powered, and $120 + $25 shipping & handling. I browsed the internet to see if that was a good deal. The cheapest I could find elsewhere was $169. So, I told myself that if I didn't find anything similar while we were out shopping in Lexington, that I would buy it online at QVC once we returned home (it was a "Today's Special Value," so the price went up to $145 + $25 shipping & handling at midnight). Sure enough, I found EXACTLY what I was looking for at Sam's Club! This tree was not battery powered (which is a good thing, since the QVC tree took 4 D batteries, and I'd imagine that you'd have several battery changes over the holiday season), AND it was only $98.72!!!! I think it's going to be a beautiful addition to our holiday decor! However, I did not take into account that we had driven my car, and not Jeff's truck, which meant that he was in the back seat kind of holding it in his lap... Oops!

We didn't get to go "all out" decorating for Christmas last year because we still had things in boxes from moving, and we just really weren't that into it... So I am EXCITED to start decorating this year! This tree is going to go in our dining room. I am excited to buy new ornaments for it! I think we're going to go in a gold, beige, brown theme.


Only 61 days until Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!