Putting on the glitz

We put up our Christmas lights and the boys liked helping daddy.

Of course, Shawn gets so irritated putting lights on our townhouse because it's not really designed for lights. Finding something that will stick to textured concrete to hold the lights up is an extremely difficult task and usually an impossible task. What normally happens is you spend the time putting up all these sticky hooks only to have them fall off one at a time (after the lights are up).

But this year, I think we found the ultimate hooks, "Command" outdoor sticky clips. So far they have worked very well.

This year we also had some separation guilt because Shawn has NEVER agreed to putting lights above the porch rim and this year without much pleading he got out a ladder and climbed up to hang lights. I guess separation does make the heart grow fonder.

I keep forgetting to take a picture at night of all the lights lit up, but it really turned out nice.