Sunday, January 27, 2013

Merry Christmas!! Part 1

I know this post is about a month overdue & most other blogs have posted about christmas but with everything going on i haven't done so yet. I thought i could do it in one post but with all the pics i want to share i will have to make it 2 posts, i will write both tonight though & post one in a week.

I love christmas, it is my fav time of year. I love the lights, i love the traditional music (not the "carols" of these days but the "real" carols), i love the smells even though i hate apple cinnamon it tells me christmas is here. I love the food, ppl, gifts. I love it all.

Growing up the only times we ever got anything were our birthdays & christmas. It is like that in my house to this day. My husband hates christmas but i tell him over & over that if he buys me things throughout the year then he would not have to buy much at christmas. Alas he still just buys me gifts for special occasions. I don't get them just because so call me greedy but i love getting gifts.

Don't get me wrong though, i absolutely love buying gifts too & giving them to ppl knowing that they are going to love what i got them. I rarely buy a gift that the person i am buying it for wouldn't love. I have pretty good taste & i pay attention throughout the year.

I will post lots of pics. This is the first year we did christmas with my mom in 10+ years. We had christmas on 2 different days at my house with 2 different meals. We did presents 1 night, then the meal the next day. I will show you pics today from the first one with my mom.

The only thing that spoiled christmas for me this year was my mom & brother couldn't leave their damn games alone for 5 minutes & that drove me crazy. I even made a comment that i didn't know christmas was about electronics. I also hated that i worked on christmas, i got very sad christmas even knowing christmas day was just going to be a regular day in my house this year.

I also have a pic of my mom with her family taken after supper the day of my grandmas funneral .

I must mention the holiday train. I came across the pics while going through christmas ones so i added em. 45 pics in this post. They raise money for local food banks wherever they play, they have musicians to do christmas tunes all along the way, the trains are decked out in lights. They have a US train & a canadian train. On the canadian train they had Doc Walker & Miss Emily perform. Doc Walker is a local country band. I have been going for a couple years now & always support the food bank but i love this band. In fact i have tickets to see them with emerson drive & aaron prichett in March. It was a bitter night & i dragged everyone with me lol.

Soap stone polar bear my dad had carved in church hill

bride & groom figurine from the wedding

tree with lights (we got a mini tree this year due to  bear's cage)

my nativity set

here comes the train

see the pretty lights

more lights

the name 

us at dinner

more lights

just a small section. This dinner was for immediate family of grampa's only so you can imagine how big the family really is. 

tree with presents

my awesome jewelery chest

G's big gift

bear's stocking

my mom is santa

reading her card from my brother

enjoying his candy cane

risk upside down lol

car light

tools

new trimmer

garden dragonflies 

AC3

New vest & sweatpants

He knows what it is now

Tap & Die set he wanted & has already used

Smile says it all

playing with bear

Cake & ice cream for his birthday

My pretty mantle. 

Tree

Doc Walker

Santa Clause


our table

other end

Mom's family 

bear checking out his stocking

ho ho ho!!

sweater

gotta have the turtles

$200 gold hoop earings (he did not pay that much of course) 

gotta have the axe

Finished product

Of course the pics did not post in order. That is nothing new, sorry but unless i fight 1 at a time i cant fix it :(.

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