Christmas

It's our Christmas Eve Eve tradition to have a sleepover in the living room, under the lights of the Christmas tree.

We made some new ornaments for the tree this year- the Scrabble words. It was really fun!

I love my plain old fashioned Christmas tree. Everything on it has a memory and is meaningful in some way. We are up to 19 Halmark ornaments- one for each year. I remember when I was a teenager I was so annoyed and embarrassed by our Christmas tree. It was full of kid-made ornaments. Nothing matched or even looked pretty. Hopefully mine isn't that bad, but compared to those I see in other homes and at the stores, etc, mine is pretty ugly and boring and I absolutely love it.

Christmas morning...

 The aftermath...

Then we got to enjoy a late Christmas morning breakfast with the Smiths (at our house).