Getting in the spirit....

The Christmas spirit, that is. Tree decorating, house decorating, parties....it's all begun! Here are a few pictures from our trek downtown last week for Columbus' first annual "ring in Christmas" production. It was quite comical how our town decided to do that. "Reindeer" promised turned out to be a fenced in area of grazing deer. "Snow" was dispensed in 5 second spurts from a "snow-blower" (if you could call it that), spraying the kids with minuscule specks of some unknown white substance. A huge, lit, Christmas tree, with a nearly five foot section of lights missing from the top. Ahhh, Christmas Columbus style. It made us laugh :)

Annely Blake posing in front of some sort of light display. Please notice the hazardous wire and electrical cord. A nightmare when you have Will and his friend Luke running around at full speed. Snow. Can you see it? We couldn't either. But the kids thought it was great!

Posing in front of the tree. A near miracle we got them to hold still and smile.

Our small group kids. Or most of them. Maggie dashed away at the last minute, and Klein was taking a break. We're adding two more in January...making the adults officially out-numbered. YIKES!!

And finally, our tree. I love how it fits in the corner of our small but cozy dining room. I love that when we eat Christmas dinner it will be just feet from us, with all of it's smells and colors. We are staying put this year. My parents will be joining us for a few days, and our dear friends the Zevacs will be eating Christmas dinner with us. I can't wait! Merry Christmas everyone!