Everything seems a little happier and brighter once you put up the Christmas decorations! Here are mine, and more of an actual blog too, if you scroll to the next entry.
Our Christmas tree and village. Every year, we have to get out Thomas the Tank Engine and build him a Christmas track around the tree. If you look closely, or click to enlarge the photo, you can see Hadley's contribution to the decorating. We have all these little Chinese people that Connie sent from Hong Kong, and Hadley has them all in a line around the bottom perimeter of the tree. It's kind of cute, so I left it that way. Lately, she makes all this little arrangements or "installments" around the house of found objects. I will try to photograph some, but they don't last long. She's very particular about how she arranges things and has a nice sense of symmetry and balance. 
The stockings (and film negatives) were hung by the chimmney with care. If it ever gets cold, I would LOVE a fire, but so far, no dice. Please, Santa, send some snow to New Jersey, the kids are quite concerned about it, especially Alexander, who keeps asking why it doesn't snow in New Jersey. He also wanted to know exactly what was going to happen with these stockings and us going to Utah for Christmas. I assured him we would take the stockings with us and Santa would fill them there. Then he was worried about where mom and dad's stockings are. I told him Grandma has some for us. Hear that, Grandma!? I like a pomegranate in the toe, and Alan prefers an orange. :)
Our front door -- decked out and waiting for our first Christmas card to attach to the ribbon. OH-- an example of Hadley's art installations was that, the other day, she took all the little magnetic letters and lined them all up vertically on the ribbon. But today she is carrying them all around in a basket along with wooden closepins and balls.
Here are the carolers -- Alexander was proud to participate in setting up the fragile display by handing me the lid for the top of the lightpost. He was so proud, and showed Alan when he got home. More below...I exceeded my photo limit!
6 comments:
first time long time,
I am saddened by the tree arrangement (although the tree is beautiful in its own way), I am not seeing *any* severed fingers or my personal favorite "Where is Jerry hiding in the tree ornament" please respond quickly as i am concerned these fav's have been left in utah and i will retrieve them to be hung on somebody's tree (probably mine of course) love you guys tons, Aspen and Golden can't wait to see you all, merry christmas, xoxox
man your kids are the cutest. better cherish it now while they are all sweet and innocent!!!!
love the xmas decorations.
paul, i assure you, Jerry IS on the tree! the finger got the axe. tee-hee.
oh, and mad props and maybe even a prize to anyone who finds jerry!
found jerry and nothing left to do but smile smile smile
well then, aren't YOU special!??
i will try to get to your prize, as soon as possible, but paying orders must be completed first!
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