Like Toys at Christmas, Sleigh Bells, Snow?

Here's most of the outdoor decor. (I love the new buckets that we bought; St. Nick's Farms, and then the little reindeer. We got those at Ace Hardware).

I never did take photos of the front gate and gazebo, except for when it SNOWED. (Pinch Me!) Also, the lights on the craft building I never took photos of either. (It's rained so much this entire month that we just never plug them in, and we lost the timer).

And then there's our poor Santa that we bought this year. It's been so muddy and so much like a bog outside that he's spent over half of the season either leaning against the house or face-planted on the ground. (The visual would make one think Santa had been drinking a bit too much spiked egg nog). That's the main reason why I haven't taken photos of the outdoor lights until tonight.

We never even bothered putting up the signs on the front gate this year. Things have just been so crazy that it didn't seem to be a priority.



















We never got around to decorating the garden beds in front of the gate, so at the last minute we just placed our new snowman on the front porch for all to see.

I think he's so cute, and you can never have too many snowmen.































Today I gave Mom her handmade Christmas gift from me early.

She named the Snowpeople Couple that I made after her grandparents, "Maddie" and "Arthur." (I think she named the others that we already had Matilda, Mildred and Tabitha.).