One tree down, one to go

I attacked the downstairs Christmas tree...I needed to reclaim the corner. It was time!

I sorted ornaments as I went...the ones that are not special...you know the ones bought at garage sales for a quarter ended up in a pile on the table to go to a someday garage sale.  Our youngest daughter tells us to hold "stuff" in our hand and if it doesn't bring us pleasure then we should get rid of it.

Most all of our ornaments on the tree are special...from friends or defining times of our lives.
Here are a few from this year.

Paper folded ornament from Charlene.

Our 2019 Woodcarving

From Nancy in Wyoming

From Sam in Arkansas homemade cinnamon ornaments

The ornament on the right is a Shutterfly ornament a photo of us and Jen in Hawaii.  The ornament on the left is  a creation by Far Guy and I ...we had leis of shells from Hawaii we put them inside a clear Christmas ball and then I printed a photo and rolled it up and put it inside the ball...and shook it up a bit. 

A ornament from Jen for our 50th Wedding Anniversary. 

Even though I took the time to sort through it seems like I still struggled for room in my ornament boxes. 

Not everything is cleared away yet...boxes/containers are sitting all over... tomorrow they will make their way upstairs.  I will go through all the Christmas Rubbermaid containers upstairs...get rid of the not so special stuff and vacuum out the storage corner where they reside. 

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Puzzle

We always try to put a puzzle together at Christmas time.  Jen picked out the puzzle from the puzzle stash upstairs.

It was all about trees!

Our littlest puzzler...he knew what it was called and tried to put in several pieces!

The puzzle was finished before Jen and Andy went home.

All the pieces were there...even though I declared several times that there were several pieces that did not belong in this particular puzzle!

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

This was the 2019 Christmas Card.  Lots of work...watercolors with some glitter embellishment.

Far Guy's Christmas Letter.

We hope you have a wonderful day!

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Merry Christmas Eve!

We enjoyed having our Grands here to celebrate Christmas.

You might have noticed that we have a new Grand...his name is Jonas and he is from Belgium, he is spending the year here with Andy, Jen and Adam...he is a delight.  He told me that in Belgium you spend Christmas with your Grandparents...it is a bit different for him since his Grandfather died.

He is very tall and thin and speaks French but his English has improved since he got here.   He is a tad camera shy...but was a good sport!  We taught him how to play spoons!  A fairly wild game  was played!

Noah and Adam

Maddie and Savannah

Miss Paige was in Florida enjoying sunshine and deep sea fishing, we missed her.  

These children light up our lives. 

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Colorful

The sunrises have been just beautiful the past few days.

When Andy and Jen were here Andy fired up the snow blower and removed a bunch of snow and fixed the garage doors that we have been struggling with.  What a gift to have someone that helps us out!

We gathered for a family Christmas Celebration here at our home yesterday.  Our oldest daughter was not able to attend and Paige was in Florida. We missed them both but appreciated those who were able to attend.

We are a little tired.  We both had naps after the house became quiet once again.

Trivia Question and answer; What did we say was our greatest accomplishment? 

Our two daughters and our five grandchildren .
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