The start of December

Taylor and I have had fun playing Wii this last week thanks to Carlie and Seth who gave us theirs!

Tannin's had to endure gel stickers on her windows the last few months...Poor kid!  All she wants is to enjoy the view!  Instead, two huge Snowmen intimidate her while she's trying to sleep on her rock.

The wrap-around Santa sleigh is awesome though!  She told me so herself.  She just doesn't like cold snow so she automatically hates the snowmen.

And we got this train from my parents.  It's the train I use to look forward to putting out every year as a kid.  Since we have a kid who's old enough to appreciate such things now, we decided to set it up with her...

Will Tannin make it out in time?!

Mwahahaha!  I am Queen of the train; the Christmas Godzilla!

Yep!  I think Tannin was the right age to enjoy this train!

Faster!  Faster!

It was fun to get our nativities out again.

I love this one Grandma Linda made us last year!

And our cute drake duck nativity we made our first Christmas  married.

And the Christmas village is up again!

We made gingerbread houses with the Drake siblings.

Good enough to eat!

I love our home all decorated for Christmas!  Also, we put away some of our normal decorations, so it didn't get too crowded and cramped, and I think that helped make everything look cleaner.

We added some "gold trimmings" to our tree this year.

 

Woodland Santa and his woodland friends.

I had to drop Taylor off at the airport today for his interview.

I'm so proud of his hard work!