a freaky story

Wanna know what happened with that real tree? Well, it got pretty real. haha. The day after Christmas, Josh and Todd were jamming on their guitars when Todd told Josh that there were bugs on the wall. 

Wait. 

Bugs? On the wall? 

Josh goes over to inspect and sees these teeny tiny brown brown praying mantis' crawling up the wall... and the curtains... and then sees hundreds on the tree itself!

I had just gotten in the shower and finished shampooing my hair when Josh bursts in and lets me know that he needs my help to get the tree out of the house... FAST and then he disappears downstairs. So I dry off as fast as I can, hop back into my dirty clothes, and throw my wet hair into a quick bun. I finally make it to the living room where I see Josh standing there with the vacuum cleaner hose sucking them up. 

At first I was horrified that he was vacuuming them up. But when I saw them scattering up my walls & curtains and on the floor... the panic set in. And then I was all for getting those freaky buggers out of there.

We tossed ornaments {thankfully, the shatterproof ones} into an open box as we made sure there were no bugs on each one. Then we just sucked it up and grabbed the tree and shoved/pulled it out the front door. All I could think of when I had my arms around that infested tree was how grateful I was that I still had my shower to finish. 

Ewwwww!

Josh & I have now sworn off real trees. My sister and I ran to the store and bought one on clearance that night.