We'll be Home for Christmas

So, while the family Christmas celebration wasn't at our house, we still were able to make a lot of Holiday memories this year in our new Home. Here are some pictures of how we dressed up our house to bring Christmas joy to the Nichols' new home in 2009! Our tree in 2009...we had a small snafu where it fell over, but got it back up just in time for our annual "St. Nichol's Holiday party"

Our Stockings were hung by the chimney with care....

And the cookies were ready for Santa...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

We were able to get our Christmas decorations up just in the nick of time! The last bit of garland was placed on Monday night--less than 24 hours before the Blizzard of 2009 started!

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures taken before the storm, and some of my decorations are now covered by snow. I have big plans to finish un-burying them in the coming days.

I nixed my plan to put lighted garland around all of the columns, because it was looking to be a bit "much"...however, now that some of my decorations are covered, I'm thinking that it might be a good addition!

My only mishap came while putting up the snowflakes on the garage door. I squished my fingers in between two of the doors, and have a lovely black fingernail to show for it...but the outcome of the snowflakes was great! :)

Thanks to my mom for lending us her homemade elves! They are the perfect addition! We didn't have time to make anything of our own, this year, but have big plans for next year.

Please notice the lightbulbs sticking out of the ground infront of the house...

And here is what was left of those lightbulbs after the snow!

Our Candy canes seem to have lost their "Cane" status!