Christmas at My House 2010

We decorated the Tree only two days before Christmas this year. For some reason we kept putting it off. Dad and Vinnie put the lights up but Vinnie got a little tangled in the lights. So Dad had to finish putting them around the tree. He loves the colored lights.

We had a very slow day on Christmas, we didn't start opening presents till 10am because my brother wanted to sleep in. But Vinnie was very excited to get the day started and was hamming it up for the camera while we were waiting.

Once my brother got up we did stockings. Here is a picture of the sleepy head with the tree and Vinnie. The tree is very sparse this year becuase we decided to do a relaxed christmas since no family was coming in this year. I have to say it was kind of nice not to go to crazy.

I think Vinnie is afraid their are no presents for him

After the stockings we divided up the presents and here is a photo of most of the presents. My Mom always has the most. I think that happens because she is so easy to buy for. Dad on the other hand is so hard because he never tells you what he wants, you just have to try and read his mind.

Here is a picture of one of the tags that I had drawn. I had made a different one for each person that I gave a gift to. I also love to wrap using real ribbon to wrap the presents.

Vinnie was worn out by the time it got to opening his presents. He and Casey got fun new cookies and toys without the stuffing in them.

I love our red glasses that we use on Christmas Day for eggnog and Kahlua or Harveys Bristol Cream. Which is such a fun way to open presents.

Day in NYC X-mas 2010

Had a wonderful day in the city with my aunt today will post some of my new finds tomorrow but for now here are to fun pics.

Decorating for Christmas This Year

I had seen this Christmas tree on the Blog Starfish and Sundresses my tree won't be this interesting this year. The colors and patterns are great. The bright striped Christmas ornaments are fantastic, plus the fun animals in the tree what a great look.

My Notting Hill Image

I this wreath from My Notting Hill Blog gave me a starting place for this years wreath. It was fun to do something different bow for the wreath this year and have gotten so many comments on it. I chose to use the gold colored ribbons because my mom loves to leave the wreaths up for the birds to nest in. Plus we seem to take forever to take down the decorations so the wreath will be up till mid Jan.

My Front Door

Oh my gosh I can't believe that this fox popped into the yard today! I noticed her creeping along the side of the house and when she stopped at the stairs we just had to get a picture. At one point she turned around and looked at us. Plus taunting poor Vinnie all he wanted to do was play and just hang with her.

Fox in the backyard

Let's see I think that is all for today and sorry for not updating as much as a should have the past couple of days but I guess Christmas can do that to you. I might update later today because we are finally bring the tree into the house but we might only get the lights on.