'Tis the Season

Miss me? Wonder where I've been? Yea, Thanksgiving happened and then the world exploded or something. Seriously, I have no idea how every day has flown by, but I literally have NO freaking time to do anything it seems. I'm weeks behind on every TV show, haven't learned music that I should have memorized, my kitchen floor just got mopped for the first time in over a week or 3 (don't judge) and I have had days where showering was almost not an option. Good grief. So, here I am with a short bit and a LOT of pictures on how Christmas looks around here.





Thanskgiving was delightful with the family. A lot of food, a lot of chatting, singing and laughing. That night Jere was VERY intent on getting the Christmas tree set up. Peggy had bought a new one this year, and since she is in re-hab for her shoulder, etc we are the lucky recipient of the tree. Anyway, Jere and Julie fetched the tree and this is what it looked like.

This big of a mess, and it is a HUGE mess can turn into this:

We LOVE the tree. Thank goodness for our lovely neighbor Jen for making my giant bow and threading the ribbon through my tree. It's all so lovely.

I'm so happy....the necessity of a place for Christmas Decorations forced me to FINALLY paint this shelf and hang it. YAY! I was so sad putting up the decorations because I'm missing our fireplace this year. Don't get me wrong. LOVE our house, but miss fireplace and the familiar hanging places.

LOVING our battery operated garlands. Thanks to Gramma Peg and QVC we are so Christmas fresh.

My Kitchen is Gingerbread and "country" fresh. I really do enjoy pulling out the Christmas Decore and all the "joy" it brings. Even if we are poorer than poor, and there isn't much "Christmas" to be had. We are so totally blessed and our house can look awesome.

I LOVE my hanging balls this year. It's a new addition. I totally stole the idea from my beloved friend Jenny D. She has a gorgeous home with gorgeous hanging balls in her enormous 100 ft. cielings.

My piano has always been covered in decorations that have some long meaning to me. Such as the Raggedy Ann doll, it was made just for meby a member on my mission. The little red pony (look closely) painted in polka dots was made by Andrea 100 years ago (hey Andrea). The quilt stocking onthe right was made by my dear friend Angie, out of an old quilt. The sparkly teddy bear was bought by my favorite gay Stephen, while he was visiting for Chritmas oneyear. My Horizons doll is on there for goodness sake. Yea, THAT doll, from 25 years ago. Man, Horizons was awesome. Give a shout out if you got to attend that. Anyway, enough explainging on that.

I even got Christmas crazy in the bedrooms this year. Once again, go battery garland, woo hoo! I found some cute, cheap little ornaments that matched their bedroom and hung them. It makes me happy every time I go in there. Our bedroom has a garland and balls as well, but it was too messy to photograph.

Hope you've enjoyed your tour of my Christmasy house.

Oh, also, there has been this going on:

Jere and I are doing a little Christmas Caberet of sorts. We had this last week to practice and put it on last night and tonight. It's been a hot mess really, and taken up our whole week. However, in the end, it IS fun to get to perform a little something. And we love our friend Carson who asked us to do it. We're going up to Showlow to do it in another week. Good times.

Carson has a minor in costume design, andhe's sort of a crazed man about costumes. So, for this VERY small, very intimate show, we all wear these costumes for A song. He whipped out my skirt yesterday. However, as much as they're a pain to get in and out of, I think we all look rather festive and cute, even if that damn bonnet does RUIN my hair. hahaha

Ok, I MUST shower and get ready to leave for the show. I need to put the chairs back in the kitchen and deal with my kids that are waking up. But, at LEAST I finally got something different posted on here. I promise I have so much more that I care to write about. For instance, how illegal it should be to love ones ward and neighborhood SO MUCH, or our ridiculously awesome Ward Christmas party, or how vampireism apparently runs in my family, etc. hahahaha

Stockings and twinkles,

Allyson