Getting in the Christmas Spirit!

Christmas cards are in the mail! Christmas lights are bright! Christmas tree is up and decorated! Christmas TV specials on every night! Austin's Birthday to celebrate on the 19th! Presents to wrap!
WE LOVE THE HOLIDAY SEASON!!!

Family pic at Mrs. O's 70th Birthday party!

Bought this cute lil' guy at the holiday store by where we cut down our tree.

AWWWWW!!! Hey, they didn't leave any room for Austin & me ;-)

Randy and I finally bit the bullet this year and bought all new Christmas lights - the new LED ones!!! Every year we have fought with the Christmas lights - blowing fuses, dealing with bad wiring, trying to make a bunch of mismatched stuff look good, etc... We simplified the design, added Mrs. Claus to compliment Santa, and the lights went up with not a single problem! YEA!!!!! The coolest part is all our Christmas lights are on a remote control; just one click and they are on or off from anywhere in the house. Plus, they use less energy than the old ones...good for the old electric bill ;-)

We had a delicious supper at Mr. & Mrs. O's house Sunday with the rest of the family. We were suppose to go on the Chritsmas Walk, but the rain put a kaboosh on that. We decided to go home and put up our tree instead. Pics below of the great time we had doing it:

Austin getting a lift from Daddy to put an ornament on the tree.

I always love how the kids know just which ornaments are theirs and they are the only person who can put them on the tree. The kids each have their own small tree in their bedrooms to decorate as well.

O' Christmas Tree - How lovely are your branches!