O Christmas Tree!

So I really wasn't kidding when I said we were cutting our Christmas down from our front yard! I'm so happy it is gone from there. We still have a little bit of it to pull out, but we'll wait until spring to do that. It was a Big tree. I had to do a lot of trimming to get it to look okay in my little house. But now it looks great. Yesterday Gary cut it down and I put the lights on it. That is my job every year, I'm kinda picky about how it gets done

Since the kids didn't get their rooms clean last night, they had to wait until after breakfast this morning before they got to decorate the tree. And they did a wonderful job. As always it is bright and beautiful, full of homemade decorations, decorations from their grandparents and a few things I've added over the years.

After I got done with the tree, I went' through the rest of the lights and put them all on the house outside. I don't have pics of it yet, but one of these days when it is dark, I will get a picture of it and show you all. I did take a couple of pics of our stockings and some of my decorations. Most of the decorations I do have are gifts given to me from my mom or my friends. One of these days I really will start getting some more things to go with it all. For now this is as good as it gets, and that is just fine with me!