Posted on 11/26/2016 6:38:44 PM PST by kevcol
Michelle Obama kicked off her family's final Christmas season at the White House on Friday by receiving a 19-foot Balsam-Veitch fir from Wisconsin as the official White House Christmas tree.
Joined by two young nephews instead of her teenage daughters, the first lady said she's ready and excited for the holiday.
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Mrs. Obama explained that the appearance by her nephews "is what happens when you get teenagers," referring to 18-year-old Malia and 15-year-old Sasha, the daughters who in past years have joined her for the tradition of receiving the Christmas tree on the morning after Thanksgiving.
"One's asleep," she said, gesturing toward the White House. "These two are up," she added, referring to the sons of her brother, Craig Robinson, who was visiting with his family for Thanksgiving.
Malia and Sasha also skipped their father's traditional pardon of a Thanksgiving turkey this week; Austin and Aaron subbed for them, too.
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...and I didn’t have to see her in it.
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I thought they got the tree from PA?
I don’t think those curbs are concrete. They look like cut granite or possibly marble. The grouting is deteriorated though.
Not the worst thing she’s worn but still ugly enough to be expensive.
That’s either her Catwoman outfit (without mask...) or she’s a preacher in some off-shoot cult. Or is a dominatrix.
“What the hell is she wearing?”
PR staff is copying Hillary’s “informal” get-up in the obviously staged walk in the woods photo, claimed to be from the day after the election. A little investigation showed that the very same young woman, who lives in the very same town as the Clintons has a mother who held a fund-raising event for Clinton. (Also a kid came out of nowhere on cue to be hugged by Hillary in front of Chelsea’s residence a few hours after Hillary’s total collapse on 9/1//16): Compare the two photos:
1) Black tights,
2) Black boots,
2) Doggy to the left of both.
3) Kids and parents prop.
Here’s link:https://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/womans-best-friend?utm_term=.kleOvQBnn#.ejb2JaKNN
That is toooo funny........
I guess it was - those ppl from WI in the pic won a contest, but their tree wasn’t peaking at the right time.
Hair is just "whatevah", but I kind of like the outfit. Hides a lot. Not presidential, but it does hide a lot.
I agree that the curbs are granite. Not marble, tho.
No biggie
I was only leaving open the possibility that my county (the marble capitol of Georgia supplied the marble).
This is where some of our Marble has been used.
The Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the New York Stock Exchange annex, the statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the National Air and Space Museum, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland, and the Buckingham Fountain in Chicago.
We have a Georgia Marble Festival Every October here. There is an elementary school in Tate that is entirely constructed of white marble. I see driveways lined with crushed marble like it was number 57 granite stone.
That is so fascinating! I'll have to check with my transplanted-to-Georgia relatives to see if they are aware of the marble festival!
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