Just a Thought

Sunday, December 09, 2007

This little light of mine

Oh so the competition is on! LOL! We love to decorate for Christmas, and we have always put up alot of lights outside each year, but we just found out that the post here where we live is having a contest for the best outdoor holiday decorating!! So we are gonna try our best to win!! There is some good competition out there, but we may have a few tricks up our sleeves. Bwahahahahaha!! Okay, maybe not, but we will see what happens when they judge on the 19th. There is $100 at stake. LOL!! So we have got some of them up already and hope to add some more soon. Here is what we have so far.







































































I am hoping to figure out how to get up to the second story to put some lights up there. We shall see. I also made a wreath for the front door. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. I found everything for it at AC Moore and it was all on sale, which makes it even better!!






















Last night we got to go to the ward Christmas Party. I baked 4 Caramel Apple Pies for it and I got alot of compliments on them. There was 1 left over to bring home just for us!! Yum!!! The kids got to see Santa there and I got a couple of cute pics of them visiting with him. I love watching their faces this year with Christmas. It is so magical and exciting. We had a great evening and alot of people were in attendance. They had a great dinner and program. We really enjoyed it.






































In my non-blogging mode last month, I totally forgot about Nicole losing her first tooth!! We freaked out of course, because we never expected a 4 year old to lose a tooth and thought for sure one of the boys had knocked it out. LOL. But we had an oral surgeon look at her and he examined the tooth and Nicole and said it was a natural lose!! So here is a pic of her toothless!! Anyhow, that is it for today, hopefully I can keep this blogging streak up.

6 comments:

Amber M. said...

FABULOUS, Melissa. So glad you're bloggin' again!

Lilja said...

WOW, you have a lot of decorations - outside and inside! No wonder you make such fabulous Christmas kits :-)
Your daughter looks absolutely cute with her toothless grin. My just-turned-5 year old wants her baby teeth gone so bad, I'm afraid she'll knock them out herself!

Lisa Joy said...

Your lights looks great!

Miranda Barten said...

Great competition..wish we lived there too...Here in Holland, we decorate outside the house but not as much as over the ocean..I would love it there ;-)

Lovely picture of your girl ;-)

Unknown said...

Great outside lights - we do a bit here in N Ireland, but not as much.

Gina.Maria said...

Love the wreath - great job! To step up the competition, play Christmas music outside. It automatically makes the judges shift into a better judging mood - good luck!