"Didn't they invent Christmas tree lots so people wouldn't have to drive way out in the country and waste a whole Saturday?" I'm sure I messed that quote up-Doug will let me know!
Ahhh, the Christmas Season. Thanksgiving was wonderful. We had 18 people for dinner 8 of them were under 11 and two of them were over 80. It was really nice. The food was good and things didn't get out of control. I cooked two turkeys and sent lots of leftovers home. I watched the parade, football was on and we watched _Christmas Vacation_ after pie. It was a great day, my favorite Thanksgiving in the last 5 years for sure!
Friday we went to Central Nevada to cut our Christmas tree. Amazingly enough we got a rather tall skinny tree-hard to find, they usually get very WIDE. The kids were good in the car. Loredana peed in the woods-that's hard for girls. Jim and Nicole came-always fun to see them. Nancy made Buckeyes-if you don't know about them YOU ARE MISSING OUT, but more for me! We listened to Christmas music on the way home and talked. I've said before how I love a good road trip so I can talk someone's ear off.
Today we decorated the tree. We have all these "funky" home made ornaments. Today I was realizing how much I love that! Nobody would buy our tree from a store, but you can read the story of our lives on that tree. I have an ornament with my name in glitter that my Kindergarten teacher made for me. Some year (in the 80's) I decided that I would always put that one on first and I always do. Doug and I both have ornaments we made at craft nights growing up and in school. Doug has an gingerbread ornament he painted in Kindergarten, it has YARN for a hanger, how sweet is that?We have a "our first year" ornament, "Parents to be ornamant", a few Baby's First Christmas ornaments and too many to count that Emma and Loredana have painted NOT in the lines. We have a Disneyland ornament (we've been going in December for about 4 years now). We have lots of ornaments that were given as gifts. We have 4 or five of the classic glass ornament balls that we bought at Target for our very first tree the year before we got married-we got married in January-those things are UGLY and I love them. Someday they'll all be broken and gone. I love our tree. I think I'll go look at it. Happy Holidays!
Ahhh, the Christmas Season. Thanksgiving was wonderful. We had 18 people for dinner 8 of them were under 11 and two of them were over 80. It was really nice. The food was good and things didn't get out of control. I cooked two turkeys and sent lots of leftovers home. I watched the parade, football was on and we watched _Christmas Vacation_ after pie. It was a great day, my favorite Thanksgiving in the last 5 years for sure!
Friday we went to Central Nevada to cut our Christmas tree. Amazingly enough we got a rather tall skinny tree-hard to find, they usually get very WIDE. The kids were good in the car. Loredana peed in the woods-that's hard for girls. Jim and Nicole came-always fun to see them. Nancy made Buckeyes-if you don't know about them YOU ARE MISSING OUT, but more for me! We listened to Christmas music on the way home and talked. I've said before how I love a good road trip so I can talk someone's ear off.
Today we decorated the tree. We have all these "funky" home made ornaments. Today I was realizing how much I love that! Nobody would buy our tree from a store, but you can read the story of our lives on that tree. I have an ornament with my name in glitter that my Kindergarten teacher made for me. Some year (in the 80's) I decided that I would always put that one on first and I always do. Doug and I both have ornaments we made at craft nights growing up and in school. Doug has an gingerbread ornament he painted in Kindergarten, it has YARN for a hanger, how sweet is that?We have a "our first year" ornament, "Parents to be ornamant", a few Baby's First Christmas ornaments and too many to count that Emma and Loredana have painted NOT in the lines. We have a Disneyland ornament (we've been going in December for about 4 years now). We have lots of ornaments that were given as gifts. We have 4 or five of the classic glass ornament balls that we bought at Target for our very first tree the year before we got married-we got married in January-those things are UGLY and I love them. Someday they'll all be broken and gone. I love our tree. I think I'll go look at it. Happy Holidays!
1 Comments:
At 7:42 PM,
Brad said…
So, you're glad that we're gone, and Thanksgiving was better without us? Looks like somebody's not gettin' a Christmas card. :] (J/K)
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