Deck the Halls

Sigh.

I find myself doing that a lot lately.

I'm not sure what's going on, just that life's been a little dull lately.

Prime example:

I LOVE Christmas!!  Decorating is usually the highlight of my season.

But this year, something seems different.

I put my tree up. 

Finally.

And, for a week, it looked like this:






Just lights.

Nothing else.

And I had almost decided to leave it that way.

After all, look at Charlie Brown's tree. . .

It wasn't half bad!!

: )



Anyway, I decided to get brave and take my own Christmas picture for our Christmas cards this year, instead of paying someone else to do them.

Big mistake.

Either he smiled.

 Or she did.

Or someone moved.
















Or the camera blurred.

Or someone would get a case of the sillies.

Sigh.

This is as close as we got.




















I'll hire someone next week.

Anyway, back to my original thought.

I finally got around to getting the ornaments on the tree.

At midnight.

Decorating the tree is always a very emotional time for me.

I can tell you where every single ornament on my tree came from.

Where we got it.

And why.

I took a few pictures of my favorites. . .





This one is pretty self-explanatory.

GO HEELS!!!!

(They got stomped by UNLV while I was putting up my tree. . .another depressing thought!!)

; )











My stocking from my Christmas tree growing up.

For many years growing up, my Mom suffered with Lupus.

She wasn't able to get out and shop, but my tiny stocking always had money for me to get things that I wanted or needed for Christmas.











I just love this one.

Randy made it in Kindergarten.

He was so cute!!

: D

Princess H as a newborn.

Had God not worked a miracle in my life and in Randy's life and in our marriage, there would be no Baby H.

She always makes me smile.

I am so very thankful that HIS thoughts are not my thoughts and HIS ways are not my ways.

I would've just messed everything up.









Tyler's tiny footprint.

He was not quite one year old when we made this.

Now, his toes barely fit on the ornament.

They grow up way too fast.








I have so many things to be thankful for.

GOD is so good to me.

Much better than I deserve.

Now that I've had my (sigh my kids are growing up too fast can't I just put a brick on their head man look what God has brought me from) pity party, I'll share the other trees throughout the house tomorrow.