Holiday decorations and Cheer! ..or the lack thereof.

Well we've got the house decorated for Christmas now. :] Derek put up the lights a couple of days ago, on the outside of the house, and we've done bits and pieces for I guess a week and a half, inside the house. I took some pictures, with the intention of posting them up here.

First, the outside of the house. I couldn't fit it all in one frame, without standing in the neighbors yard across the street.



And one where you can see down the walkway, to the front door, if just barely.


From inside the front door! See the snowflakes? I helped Jenni with some of those.


And lastly our Christmas tree.


Jenni wanted to get a real tree this year, which would have been awesome. She's got, I think, 10 foot ceilings in the livingroom, so a real tree, at the right height, would have looked just lovely, pretty much anywhere in the livingroom. Derek didn't want a real tree.

So, Jenni didn't want to put up the fake tree, which is a 6 foot. She called it her 'Charlie Brown' Christmas tree. There was alot of fussing and pouting all around. We had it about half assembled, when Ash complained that we weren't fluffing the branches enough, and we realized some of the branches were in the wrong place on the tree. I think Jenni chucked a branch at Derek at that point. After some more fussing and Ash declaring, "You're a Grinch(Derek), and you're a Scrooge!(Jenni)", we finally got the tree put together, and fluffed to Ash's satisfaction.

We left it undecorated for about a week. LOL. Then Sunday morning, after breakfast, Jenni and I put on all the ornaments. It may not be as tall as we would have liked, but it does look pretty, all lit up and decorated.

Aside from all that silliness, only two of the presents under the tree are real. Ash complained that with no presents under there, it looked silly, but she got her present (a new cellphone) early, and Derek got his gift(a gun) last month, so Jenni got some empty boxes, like for shipping gifts, at Walmart and wrapped those.

I kept joking, that it didn't really feel like the Holidays, unless there was family bickering, but I don't think anyone appreciated it. LOL.