A Few Christmas Photos
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itinerantwriter. Here are the pictures from Christmas Day.
Our tree. We had to get new lights, since the ones we had previously had European plugs. Unfortunately, we bought the lights about 4 days before Christmas, so nearly everyone was sold out, and we had to get white lights, which are MY favorite. Lance prefers colored lights (which we've had on our tree every Christmas since we got married, so hey, I think it's my turn to have the lights I want). He can't be too upset though...these lights could be configured 16 different ways. He wanted to set it to a seizure-inducing blink - something akin to having strobe lights from a disco on your tree - but I insisted on it being a slow, subtle twinkle. Also, we had no tree topper this year, as the bow we used before had seen better days and was tossed out last year after we took down the tree. At Lance's office Christmas party, I won this snowman decoration in a raffle, which just so happened to fit quite nicely on top of the tree. I don't think it's sturdy enough to make it beyond this year though...being packed up and put in storage will almost surely crush it.
I know I mentioned it before, but Lance and I had this thing where we would buy an ornament from every place we traveled together. So our tree is a big souvenir of all our European travels. It's fun to unwrap the older ones and reminisce about our trips to Prague, Paris, Brugge...but it was also fun to hang the newer ones on the tree: the wooden Santa from Estonia, the wooden bell from Finland, the handpainted glass bulb from Neuschwanstein, the commemorative Hans Christian Anderson ornament from Denmark, the faux Faberge egg from Russia...
Here I am holding the 4 Home Depot gift cards we received. We thought it was pretty funny, actually. And of course they will be put to good use.
The entire point of this picture was that it was snowing. I wanted to get a shot of Lance watching the snow. Alas, you cannot see snow in this picture. Damn.
So here we are. Proof that it did indeed snow here on Christmas Day. By the time it was over, we had a light dusting in our backyard. Unfortunately, it didn't stick around long.
itinerantwriter. Here are the pictures from Christmas Day.
Our tree. We had to get new lights, since the ones we had previously had European plugs. Unfortunately, we bought the lights about 4 days before Christmas, so nearly everyone was sold out, and we had to get white lights, which are MY favorite. Lance prefers colored lights (which we've had on our tree every Christmas since we got married, so hey, I think it's my turn to have the lights I want). He can't be too upset though...these lights could be configured 16 different ways. He wanted to set it to a seizure-inducing blink - something akin to having strobe lights from a disco on your tree - but I insisted on it being a slow, subtle twinkle. Also, we had no tree topper this year, as the bow we used before had seen better days and was tossed out last year after we took down the tree. At Lance's office Christmas party, I won this snowman decoration in a raffle, which just so happened to fit quite nicely on top of the tree. I don't think it's sturdy enough to make it beyond this year though...being packed up and put in storage will almost surely crush it.
I know I mentioned it before, but Lance and I had this thing where we would buy an ornament from every place we traveled together. So our tree is a big souvenir of all our European travels. It's fun to unwrap the older ones and reminisce about our trips to Prague, Paris, Brugge...but it was also fun to hang the newer ones on the tree: the wooden Santa from Estonia, the wooden bell from Finland, the handpainted glass bulb from Neuschwanstein, the commemorative Hans Christian Anderson ornament from Denmark, the faux Faberge egg from Russia...
Here I am holding the 4 Home Depot gift cards we received. We thought it was pretty funny, actually. And of course they will be put to good use.
The entire point of this picture was that it was snowing. I wanted to get a shot of Lance watching the snow. Alas, you cannot see snow in this picture. Damn.
So here we are. Proof that it did indeed snow here on Christmas Day. By the time it was over, we had a light dusting in our backyard. Unfortunately, it didn't stick around long.