10th day of christmas

seeing the lights

today was a good family day! we went to tyler's missionary farewell - he is serving a mission for the church in Austraila for 2 years. we spent the day with him & family. the kids love to go to the lynch's as they have lots of kids, toys & fun! we came home in the late afternoon for naps then went back. on our way back we took quite the detour looking at christmas lights. i love to look at christmas lights with christmas music playing in the warm car! after we got home tonight (very late), i took pics at some of our christmas decorations. i love christmas for many reasons - the music, lights & decorations are some of my favorite things about christmas.

the stockings were hung ... our stockings are my most favorite decoration of all. my mom made these by hand. they are very time consuming as each image/word is made of hundreds of sequins & beads. jake is waiting on one for his pet turtle "DILL" & doesn't quite understand why grandma doesn't like Dill enough to make him one - HA!

my entry piece is a little cramped but we love to decorate this piece for all the holidays. jake made a santa & tree out of legos & i insisted it go right in front so everyone could see them.

this snowman is on our porch outside. we found him in Seattle when we were there for a scrapbook convention & had to bring him home.  he is almost 7 feet tall.