Christmas House Decor

There were several home tours on different blogs showing the Christmas decor of different homes. Well, this is mine.....if you were to come in our back patio door these two reindeer would gladly greet you. Inside the kitchen the kitchen window is decorated with holiday greeting cards from many of our friends....some we see everyday and some from years gone by. It's always fun to receive these cards each year and being the pack rat that I am I usually keep them from Christmas to Christmas.

This is a side table or actually a trunk that belonged to my grandfather. It has our collection of Christmas books.....something for everyone, from hard cardboard books for babies to the Politically correct version of Christmas stories book. I love flipping through them every year, but I have to keep my eyes on them as sometimes my children or siblings try to reclaim books from the past.

This year we put out three little trees (brand new in the box garage sale for $9!! woo hoo!!) I really didn't even miss the big tree as much as I thought I might. And when it packs up and away so much faster than the big one I may love it even more.

I should have taken a shot of the fireplace the night before as we had a nice roaring fire and it really was picture perfect.

Here's a little something I did with the letter "H"....just strung it up with some ribbon and added some red Christmas balls and there you have it.

This is new this year....I won this funky Santa Christmas Tree at a Bingo game. Thanks Susan!

Here a picture with all the Christmas loot! We must have really been nice this year!

Here's another shot of the fireplace that really needs a fire.

Now, it's time to start thinking about putting this all away...

My Christmas Grandgirls

What a pretty, pretty girl!! She selected her outfits from top to bottom for each day of celebration this Christmas. She seems to have been bitten by the fashion bug. Her Auntie is all too happy to see this gal go foo foo for fashion.


And then there's this little girl (our granddogger) all decked out for Christmas too. And guess who's responsible for her new outfit? Her Auntie Fashion Queen

Christmas Lights PART II

A week or so after Thanksgiving on a cold windy night.... My favorite son-in-law and second son let me treat them to dinner and then came over....
And put up our Christmas lights!!

What you can't see in these pictures (and no somehow I didn't catch it in photos) was their Dad /Dad-in-law running around below barking out instructions.

It seems year to year we forget how we put things up.....therefore dear ole Dad has each strand labeled....NW corner, SW corner, Front peak etc....

This year since we had limited help we just went with a simple strand of lights around the edge of the house.

I picked these candy canes up at a garage sale this year for a couple of dollars.

And hung my trusty reindeer on the front porch post....

So here are a few shots of the lights on the house....the ones below look as if they are on fire. Must be something with the camera or the operator..

These are not good photos but here's a shot of the neighbors down the street.

And then our neighbor's directly across the street really lit their house up nicely.

So until next year this is it for our Christmas lights outside.....until we find innocent soul to help take them down....how 'bout it boys??

Christmas Lights

I took these photos so the next year when it was time to put up the Christmas lights we wouldn't forget how they were hung.
And a shot of the tree inside the house as if I'd ever forget how to put this one together. And yes, my darling daughter there are dozens of strings of lights to give this tree it's glowing charm.



And a good photo of the Christmas trees in the yard....(it took a certain someone a lot of time to figure out how to put these together and up!)
Here's a parting shot of the whole yard....and stay tune until tomorrow and you'll see what this year's decorations looked like. OH! you didn't think we did all of this this year with two knee replacements and a couple of extra hospital stays under our belt did you???