Christmas at the Pink House

It's not hard to decorate a house that's very small...most of our decorations are still in tupperware bins, while only a select few will help us celebrate the holidays this year! My nativity set is from Jerusalem when I spent a term there...since that time I've started collecting them from around the world...I also have sets from Bolivia, Peru and the Phillipines. I don't know how extensive our travels will be in the coming years, so the collection may stay at that for a while. I have yet to find a tree topper that I REALLY love and that I can afford, so the $10 silver Target star I bought last year stayed packed away (hopefully forever...I never really liked it) and I tried my hand at tying a bow...I like the way it turned out. So far, we've only had 1 ornament casualty (plus the ceramic Santa on a side table that bit the dust), although we've had several near-mishaps with Kate. I've found that I can very successfully barricade the tree with my piano bench and other chair that I sit in during lessons...kind of kills the beauty of the tree, but kind of preserves the beauty of the tree at the same time. We got our tree up early this year because we will be taking it down next Friday before we leave on Saturday for Utah and Idaho. We will be spending Christmas with all of Andy's family and then heading up to Island Park, Idaho for some snow-mobiling the day after Christmas...we look forward to tons of cousins, good food, games of Rook, wet and cold snow clothes, lost mittens and tons of fun...! (NOTE: Lauren took that last picture of me and Kate! She's VERY into taking pictures these days, and that one turned out fairly centered, as opposed to the self-portrait she took of herself...big, blue, bug eyes and a nose!)