Christmas Tree 2015

 This year we didn't put all the decorations on the tree, some stayed in the box.  The urchins put tinsel around the room.  Its starting to feel a bit like Christmas.

Icicles from Gina's "White Christmas"

The tree skirt I made in 2014

Mixing the old decorations with the new ones.

Memories of New Mexico and California

The Dragonfly from Cambridge, and Chili Lights from New Mexico

  

Each year a Chili is hidden.  The finder has good fortune for the New Year.

It's feeling a little like Christmas

 Tighe and Quinn's new decorations.

 I promised myself I would finish one project this year, so I picked a Christmas project.  A skirt for around the bottom of the Christmas tree.  Yay, it's finished.

 The pohutukawa is a special part of my New Zealand Christmas.

 The children decorated the tree all afternoon.  Merry Christmas everyone.

Christmas Decorations and Candlelit Dinner

Quinn decided to make some decorations for his tree.

Porsche tree decoration

Dodge tree decoration

We have 3 dragonflies on the tree.

My first violin decoration

We also celebrated the start of Advent with a Candlelit dinner - 28 candles!  It took Quinn a while to set up, and light them all.  The warmth coming off them was amazing.

Took a while to blow them all out!

Quinn is still waiting for the "Eat Junk Food all day" part of the Advent Calendar.