Christmas Lights

Ever since Dog Walker was in double digits, he has been the one to decorate our home for the holidays. He loves making an amazing light display for the neighbors and people will often drive slowly down our street just to see his magic.

These lights run all the way around our kitchen... I'm guessing about 80 feet of lights, garland, and candy canes.

But you all know that this year the Dog Walker has been concentrating so hard on finishing up his BS degree that he only had a couple of hours while we were in Canada to put up a few lonely strands of lights on the outside of the house. Fortunately, the kids have all picked up their efforts on the inside of the house and things are looking pretty festive here.

It takes the entire rail to get all 12 stockings up for the kids. The kids know that they will always be here with us.

So I thought I would share a few of our inside lights with you just so you know that we still love Christmas and the light of Christ burns brightly on the inside even if it is difficult to see sometimes on the outside.

I made this advent calendar back when Bossy and The Beast were both still in diapers.

Sport and Drama Queen put up the Snow Villages and my sweetie took care of the trains. Fortunately, this is a prelit tree and all we had to do was pull down the bag and plug it in. It took us about 2 weeks to finally get all the ornaments on it...

What kind of kid doesn't want to decorate a Christmas tree???

Only mine, apparently.

Things are very busy here and we are loving the season just like we always do. It just doesn't show up as much on the outside this year. Happy Christmas, everyone!