Neighborhood Decorations
12/12/10 08:43 PM
This past weekend Molly and I had the pleasure of hanging the decorations for our neighborhood. On Friday night about 8:00 Molly, Livy, Abby and I went out to the front of our neighborhood armed with six 48 inch wreathes, a bag of extra large zip ties and an old wood folding ladder that we have had for about 15 years.
We thought, “this will be fun and the girls will enjoy the experience”. We live in a gated community and our job was to hang the six wreathes on both sides of each of the front gates. We prepared everything and I climbed the ladder to hang the first of the six wreaths. Right as I got to the top of the ladder a car pulled up and the gate started to open. Luckily I was on the inside of the gate and it didn’t push the ladder over, but we didn’t realize that there would be that much traffic in and out of our neighborhood at 8:00 at night. Soooooooo....about 2 hours later we had finished hanging the six wreathes. In the picture below you are looking at the entrance from the outside. You can see the wreathes and some lights that we put up. That’s Molly and Luke on the right, Livy and Abby were standing behind me trying to stay out of the way and not get run over by the cars going in and out. It was fun to do something that others can enjoy.
Molly said that people had complemented on the decorations at a Christmas in the Park get together that her and the girls went to today. I guess it was worth it.
Here is another picture without the car lights. Not as pretty but you can see the wreathes a little better.
We thought, “this will be fun and the girls will enjoy the experience”. We live in a gated community and our job was to hang the six wreathes on both sides of each of the front gates. We prepared everything and I climbed the ladder to hang the first of the six wreaths. Right as I got to the top of the ladder a car pulled up and the gate started to open. Luckily I was on the inside of the gate and it didn’t push the ladder over, but we didn’t realize that there would be that much traffic in and out of our neighborhood at 8:00 at night. Soooooooo....about 2 hours later we had finished hanging the six wreathes. In the picture below you are looking at the entrance from the outside. You can see the wreathes and some lights that we put up. That’s Molly and Luke on the right, Livy and Abby were standing behind me trying to stay out of the way and not get run over by the cars going in and out. It was fun to do something that others can enjoy.
Molly said that people had complemented on the decorations at a Christmas in the Park get together that her and the girls went to today. I guess it was worth it.
Here is another picture without the car lights. Not as pretty but you can see the wreathes a little better.