It's Christmas Around Here!

I'm finally getting around to posting some pics of our house decorated. I really wanted to do it up more this year since our house was on the market last year and had to remain neutral for holidays! I havne't got all crazy because I'm just too tired from work! Here's our tree...


We had the perfect spot in our front living room but then we realized it was one of the non-working outlets we have in that room and our electrician said it would cost a small fortune to get them working again. So we had to problem solve and finally decided to run an extension cord from behind the tv. Not what I wanted but at least the tree skirt sort of covers it up!


                                 Our not finished mantle in the same room with the tree..



  Dining room table. My mom did this one day when she was staying at our house waiting for a repair man. She used the "G" wreath I had just made!




We actually did a few lights out front. Not much but just around the door. Gracie loves it!  Hopefully next week we'll actually have bushes and can do more around the house outside.



We did got to Garden Ridge and get one of those inflatables. It's cute and Gracie loves it too. We still have to get some sort of a spot light so it will show up in the dark. Our outside lights attached to our house are few and far between.



                         Just a little funny comparison. Really bad quality b/c I took a pic of a picture on my phone. This is me (why did the late 70's/early 80's have such yellow tones on pics???) by my Jack-n-the box that Nana always did for us kids.


            
                               GG continued the fun tradition and here is Gracie from last year. We have several of the kids by them and I love having all the older pics out during this time of year. Very fun.




And you really know it's Christmas time when you get to bake and be a kid and lick the extra batter off the spoon. So good!!


And finally... meet "Froggy"!!

Our elf from Elf on the Shelf. It's been fun watching our Froggy appear in places. This is our first year to do this. I have to say though, I don't see the reason for all the mischief that people's elf's get into??? I guess it's just fun but all over facebook and pinterest I see all these ideas for silly places to put him and trouble for him to get into? Not really sure what that is about. Our Froggy just appears in funny places but doesn't get into any trouble. Yet I guess!

Happy Holidays everyone!! What a wonderful time of year it is....