Despite the fact that I got a migraine on Thanksgiving night, and a cold followed swiftly thereafter, I've been feeling a lot of holiday cheer.
We had a lovely Thanksgiving with Marc's family.
On Friday, we put up our Christmas tree and many of our decorations. Max and Lucas put up their tree all by themselves.
On Saturday, we went to see The Savior of the World in the Conference Center theater. On the whole, I think it was very well done, even though Marc said it could have ended after the first half. I liked the singing (and I don't always like the singing in shows). Afterwards, we had a family dinner with all of Marc's family -- his sister Lisa's family was in town from California.
On Sunday after church, we set up Eva's tree.
She was utterly delighted, as she doesn't seem to remember anything about last Christmas. She wanted to do almost all of the ornaments herself, resulting in a large majority of them being at the bottom of the tree. It's perfect.
Today was a big mail day:
Most of it was gifts I ordered on eBay, but there were also catalogs and Church magazines to peruse. But most exciting was this package from Rebecca:
I am torn because I can't wait to try it, yet I don't want to disturb its simply perfect packaging! (How funny is it that I didn't notice there was writing on the back of the note until I looked at this picture?) Thanks, Rebecca!
I'm finished decorating (Marc helped a lot), I'm making projects, I've finished my advent tree (photo tomorrow), and I have started shopping. Lots of holiday cheer.
festivity at the door
We are all bedecked here!
the Madeline house my mom gave me several Christmases ago – it brings back fond memories of the Madeline books I loved as a girl...
more goodness from my mom
I asked her for miniature wreaths to tie on my chairs – I love them so.
The boys' tree. I found some snowflake cluster ornaments at Robert's, they are so cute!
Eva made some new ornaments for her tree – a square snowman, ice cubes, a snow globe, and a mirror made of tinfoil. Okaaayyyy.
Even though I can NOT believe it's December 1st, our stocking advent is ready to go for tonight. Fa la la la la!
