Christmas Preparation part 1

Dear Reader,

As Christmas draws closer, we have been preparing for the big day! It's mind blowing how fast this year has flown by! What a busy year, but what a wonderful year!!! I hope everyone has had a wonderful year!

Anyways.... back to our Christmas prep... Last Friday we had the Gardner's over for dinner, and to decorate our christmas tree's. What a wonderful time we had!!! Here are a few pictures for your "special benefit" ;)

The Christmas tree.... waiting to be decorated.

(sorry for the poor picture quality)

Everyone working together... or some of us working. LOL

un-tangling the string of "pearls"

putting up the lights

working, working, working

putting up the ornaments

Aaron.... always finding time to be goofy. LOL

Our wonderful supervisor LOL

finishing up......

Sydnie and I... taking pictures while waiting for the milk (for hot chocolate! yum!) to heat up.

The adorable couple ;)

Oh My Goodness!!!!!!

(they really were connecting the lights but....it looks very different lol)

The happy couple.....after they got out from under the tree. LOL

After we finished decorating the trees, we watched Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby ( a family favorite) while eating cake and drinking hot chocolate. So there is a little peek at what we have been doing for Christmas. What have you been doing? I would love to hear all about it!

Stay tuned for my next post on Christmas baking!!!! YUMMY!!!

Your Friend,

Haviland~

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