Dave tying up the tree we bought at Ace hardware on Summer. YAY! there is nothing like the anticipation of bring a tree home to decorate!



unpacking the decorations.



tree pre-decorations



We didn't have a tree topper and can't find any we really like. This was actually an ornament at Macy's that I got on super sale for like 2 bucks and it totally looks legit as a tree topper.



Decorated!



Some christmas cookies we made with eileen and her kids.



You can't tell form this picture but this Mary at the dollar store nativity set had waaay too much lipstick and rouge on!She did not look like a virgin mary in this set, that's for sure.



my Christmas cards this year.

I had to use a sandal as a makeshift security device the other day to see if anyone was entering the house. so simple yet I believe totally effective.

I'm pretty sure I no longer even want to be casually acquainted with shady people anymore and am annoyed by their even minimal Stop being shady shadesters!

for (e:libertad) birthday we went with his mom on a walking tour of forest lawn. it was neat but a little too long for me I thought. they have people dressed up as famous dead people buried there and as we were walking up to the first one libertad thought it was a real mourning woman and couldn't believe our tour director was interrupting her Haha

(e:libertad)'s mom was visiting and she loves art festivals.