and the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

Merry Christmas Eve!

The house has been decorated, the food is prepared and soon we will be on our way to church.

Getting the tree this year was an adventure. The grand firs that we normally buy were way to tall for our house. We ended up getting a noble fir. Yikes! That hurt the pocket book.

It is actually fuller than we originally thought, so we had to move it to the front room. It looks so beautiful decorated. This was the first year Littlebit helped decorate the tree. She would just lay the ornaments on the tree. I went behind her and fixed them.

Lovey's new ornament was Green Eggs and Ham. This was the first book he read by himself. I can't believe how well he reads. 

Littlebit loves her fairies. This little fairy was just too sweet to not be Littlebit's ornament this year.

Big Daddy has his Popeye ornament on the tree. In fact, I think we have three different Popeye ornaments.

One of my students gave me this little nativity quite a few years ago. 

The little elf stocking holder is mine. I have had it since I was a kid. It works out well because our stocking holders spell JOY and we needed one more.

This cute little snowman, the kids and I made from paint sticks.

Merry Christmas!!!