Holidays Around Here

Ok, so we skipped Thanksgiving in the holiday recaps - mainly because Bill and I were terrible at taking photos. Ok, Meg was terrible at taking photos, but lets not go into details...

Last year was the first year I got to decorate my own place with Xmas gear but this year we have our own home... with two mantles... and a space for a ginormous tree...

Here's last year's set up --->

This year, things got bigger... 

I definitely didn't need this chair last year...

But we have had to keep the presents from under the tree because of our newest addition... 

Yeah, he would totally open all our presents for us. And I can assure you he wouldn't wait for Christmas morning to do it... 

But on to the new rooms... 

(Ok, its a little sad down here, but I didn't buy a lot of new stuff this year. That money goes into house projects!)

And some exterior fun too!

We also have gotten a lot of this exterior fun.. 

Which has been pretty stunning. Not to mention Bill gets to play with his new toy... 

In fact, that's how we spend most of our nights now, shoveling, salting and scooping up snow. But we seem to have fun doing it, and Oxford doesn't mind it like he does the rain, so its all in good fun. 

This year we've been a little too busy to take on the 12 Dates of Christmas again, but we hope to get in a few holiday festivities this weekend. Then comes Christmas! Then Bill and I are getting some extra-special holiday guests, my friend Nissa and her partner, Sterling, for a full-packed 24 hour celebration. So I think we'll have a lot to share coming up!