Oh Christmas Tree

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

On the first day of Christmas...

Jingle Bells one syllable at a time per person....ready...GO!

Christmas is a Wrap

I am usually anxious to pack up Christmas and all it's trimmings because the house feels so clean and uncluttered. But now that I have everything packed safely away for next year the house feels kinda empty and sad. I want my tree back. But it is long gone...hauled off yesterday by the Boy Scouts. Sigh.....

I should have taken advice from my good friend, Celia, and left my tree up. Click here to see her tree plans http://groundhogdaywithceliafae.blogspot.com/2009/01/o-easterbaum-o-easterbaum.html


I miss Christmas but I do still have these snapshots of Christmas morning I can enjoy.

I bet you thought this photo was of me but it's actually of Grandma and Grandpa Fallows. Can you find them? They joined us for Christmas morning through our video cams. See...they are brightly shining in the background on top of the piano.It wouldn't be Christmas at the Fallows without aebleskivers. What's an aebleskiver you ask? click here to find out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86bleskiver

I'm still missing my tree. If your tree is still up you should probably invite me over so I can enjoy it. But I won't help you pack it up....it's too soon!

Christmas Casualty

Here are several examples of what our gingerbread house could look like.

This is what our house actually looked like....

...and then this.
This is how Jack felt about it.

This is how Ellinor felt about it.

This is our house after considerable retrofitting.

All's well that ends well.

All We Want for Christmas

Dear Grandpa,

Mom won't buy us this great Cadillac from Costco. Can you beleive it? We look so cute in it. AND we've been so good! (except the part where we threw a fit when she made us get out) Anyway we've been thinking...if you bought this SUV for Grandma then we might come visit you more often. Just a thought.

Love,

Ell and Jack