Christmas at my house....

Here is our lovely tree....


Half of the lights went out on it over this past week so we had to undecorate it, put on new lights and then redecorate.


above my tv in the living room.


The surprised Santa who SEES everything, mostly naughty kids. ;)


The fireplace in the family room.


The "kid's" tree that was moved upstairs to the family room from the basement for us ALL to enjoy :)

and what I am doing in my 12 days of Christmas....

I won these window gels from a Christmas party....and they are kinda neat. So this year I am wishing BIG, or is it BIG wish, or wishing BIGGER? Either way.

Now...as much as I have bashed (in my opinion) the blow up outside things (especially the recent one I saw of Santa riding a Harley, for GODSAKES) our outside decor is not much to write home about. We put the stuff up two weeks ago...

here is the big HUNTER putting up the deer. Only to plug them all in and not have them work. Do you think that said hunter has fixed them...no. Not only that...two of the deer have fallen over and now with all the snow you can't even see them. So Hubby the Hunter says, "well, now there is no point fixing them, you can't see them." So yeah. I may talk a big talk about tackiness, yet my yard is full of Christmas decorations that DON'T WORK and PROBABLY won't work unless I get MY butt out in the snow and FIX them. *venting, see the steam?*

Anyway, this is Christmas in MY house, want to see the Tour of Homes, click here...

Again, for those that have it all....

I was on my way to the mall the other day, Hallmark to be exact. Along the way there is an Adult Toy Store...don't ask why I know it is there, it just is. I had to laugh out loud, the sign out front said,

"Santa shops here, you should too"

Roflmao. Santa watches porn and peep girls? Maybe he enjoys a little elf action. OOOHHH that's bad and my mind went really deeply in the gutter on that one.

Anyway, for the guy who has it all...maybe Santa should find him something in the adult toy store.

Speaking of adult toy store, cause my mind is there anyway, what is with all the blow-up decorations in people's yards. Really. My kids LOVE them and want me to litter my yard with them...nothankyouverymuch. They are for every holiday, we actually saw a turkey one. Halloween, blow up Frankenstein. I have yet to see a cupid, but I should speak too loudly someone might make one and patent it and become a millionaire on MY idea.

Guess my decorating is a little more traditional. I love my lighted reindeer, trees and lights on the pines in our yard, nothing that requires air. Sorry to disappoint you kids.

So this weekend is decorating weekend. My mom who clearly stated she WASN'T decorating this year called and asked us over to decorate the tree?!?! LOL. I said, "I thought you weren't decorating?!?!" My sister who just moved back from Hawaii, INSISTED that the tree go up this year and made my mom put it up. (see, even adult children are pushy and demanding. when my kids are adults they BETTER not bring over a blow up Santa for my yard) So we will be helping with the ornaments for her tree.

The kids love ornaments, maybe because we make such a big deal about them. Take each one out carefully, admire it, oh and ah over it, tell the story behind it, etc. I love the ornaments and usually we buy a new one every year for our family members to add to their tree. Amazingly, our trees still aren't full.

One tradition that I started with my kids is with the ornaments, they have a picture frame ornament for every year of their life, with a picture from that year in it. I love them and they love pulling those out of the box and looking at how they looked last year or the year before. PLUS, there is no fighting on WHO puts that one on the tree. *eye roll*

So to save myself more of the "when are we putting up OUR tree" questions, I think we shall put ours up this weekend too. I am going to participate in the Christmas Tour of Homes hosted by Boo Mama!! Should be fun, check it out and join us. It gives you the opportunity to see how others decorate (sorry if you like the blow ups) and a peak into their worlds this holiday season. So I will not be posting any tree pictures of MY house (my share my mom's house early) until the tour begins. :) I know, you all will be awaiting with abated breath. ;)