Winston underneath the tree

Our house is finally decked out for the holidays. After a slow start this year, we finished with the holiday decorations yesterday. Just in the nick of time!

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It seems like we are running late with everything this Christmas season. I mailed out our Christams cards on the 22nd and I just finished wrapping my last present at 9:45 pm on Christmas Eve. Here are a few pictures of our house decorated for the holidays.

We wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season!

We are going to be staying in Los Angeles for Christmas this year. I will miss the snow and our families but am looking forward to spending our first Christmas in the house.

All decked out for the holidays!

I LOVE the smell of a live tree. It freshens up the whole house.

The fireplace all dressed up.

The dogs have their own stocking but they have to share.

A couple days ago I picked up a “Living Christmas Tree” at Osh to surprise Heather. Heather didn’t think we were going to get one since our downstairs is being renovated and we are leaving at the end of this week to spend Christmas with my family, so it was a nice surprise.

Initially I had placed the tree in our bedroom but it wasn’t getting enough light so we moved it into our new office (the second bedroom). Today we listened to Christmas music while we decorated the tree. (well, Heather did most of the decorating and I helped a little because I’m sick).