ALMOST Christmas!

Christmas was nice. It was so good to be home! It wasn’t enough time. I wished we could have stayed for a month, but I didn’t like leaving the Pup. We were gone for thanksgiving, Christmas, we would be gone again in January, and I didn’t feel good leaving her any longer.

she was rolling around like a goof :)

Then when Grandmommy took her to the dog park

Before we left for California we decorated (I should say my mom helped me decorate, I was still to weak to do it) We decorated for Christmas.

Before he left Mike's Dad setting up the tree

Decorating the tree

Lighting the patio

The front porch. Got the wreath on Etsy. 

We had so many people approach us to THANK US for our lighting display! They said it made them feel Christmasy, and have more Christmas Spirit. I felt so good! We had people even knock on our door to tell us how much they liked them!

in progress

we added icicles and a puppy-reindeer found at Kroger 

Isn't he so cute?!? His name is Jack (like Jack Frost)

This is our BBQ hehe... sneaky...

Almost done, needs color,,,

Ta Dah!

We added the color lights to the posts on the sides around the garland.

 We had one neighbor, a single mom, tell us that she was having a rough year and wouldn’t be able to give her boys the kind of Christmas that she wanted, but seeing our lights in the morning when she got up for work, while its still dark (we had them on a dusk-dawn timer) and saw our lights it made her have hope and feel like it was still going to be a good Christmas. I was flabbergasted and so touched!

When we got back from California we had a flyer on our front door. We had won the complex’s Christmas spirit and lights display contest! HOW EXCITING!!!!