Christmas Decorations

We have some obnoxiously large built in shelves in our living room and the only good use I have found for them is Christmas decorations. So each year we fill one shelf with my snowman collection, one with Jeff's Christmas train and village, and the third with our Nativity. You can tell how big these shelves are with Max comfortable sitting up there helping Jeff set things up. This is my snowman collection. I LOVE snowmen!! Each year I try to only add one or two so we don't get completely overrun with them. I also have other snowmen scattered around the house and snowman pillows, blanket, cups, trays, plates, etc. It's so much fun and snowmen are always happy.

Here is Jeff's train and village. Actually you can see the train in this picture b/c it's in the back. The boys love to turn it on and watch it go around and around and around and around. Must be a guy thing!!

Here is our sad little nativity. It is sad this year for many reasons. First we couldn't find it in all of our holiday decorations. Then when we found and and opened it, it was broken. Two wise men lost their head, Joseph lost his hand, and baby Jesus was in 5 pieces. We managed to glue almost everything back together (expect we couldn't find Joseph's hand) but it just doesn't look as pretty as it did. And finally we got everything done and the background came crashing down! We can't make the background stay up for anything.

So this is what it looks like and will look like until we take it down next week. Hey, we tried!!