Dinner with Friends and Christmas Decor

A festive table for friends.

Our decor tour begins at the front door.

Come on up and check out our cards.

Mr. and Mrs. Moose are waiting at the top.

A festive assortment of baubles.

A couple of cute snowmen and a blingy light.

New this year--the candy tree in the kitchen.

Baubles, candy canes and a star in the kitchen.

Our little tinsel tree decorated in red and white.

More baubles AND bells.

Have you been NAUGHTY or NICE????

You never know where the snowmen will be!

A bowl filled with red and white baubles.

Mr. Snowman hanging out on a ladder.

My favorite new decoration--a garage sale

bargain! It lights up! Can you see the chimmney

smoke?

Silver baubles and a new jar from the farm sale

we went to this past summer.

A lantern on the book shelf-it has a "flicker candle"
under it.

Our tour concludes in the powder room. I hope

you enjoyed the tour of our house this

Christmas!



~Keep on Dreaming~

New Friends and an Ornament Exchange

I was blog hopping one afternoon when I saw the picture
above on a blog. I believe it was at "Pampering Beki."
So I decided to see what it was about. (being new to the
blog world and all)
Well, as the little picture says it was for an ornament
exchange--I read on and found that all you had to
do was sign up and then Beki would send you an
exchange partner. My partner was Nanette.
Nanette's blog--"thesemons" is a family blog with
some wonderful posts.

Here is the little beauty she sent me! It is a beautiful

green stained glass tree. Currently it hangs in my kitchen

window. I like to see the light come through it in the

mornings. It is so dainty. I love it! Thanks Nanette!!!

~Keep on Dreaming~

Oh, Christmas Tree

For most of us a Christmas tree is an intricate

part of our holiday celebration(s).

Real or artificial? Both have their pluses.

Artificial ones are great for those who have

allergies and real ones are good for those

who don't. We have artificial ones because

I have the allergies in our family. I love the

new prelit trees, they are sooo easy to put

up and take down and no fighting with lights.

What kind do you have?

How many should we have? As I have read

different blogs this season, I have noticed

that most bloggers have more than one

tree. Some are theme oriented ie: Kitchen,
Sports, Sewing, Color Scheme, Family etc.

Some just have lights on them or decorations.

We have four this year. one in the living

room which is a tinsel tree, in the bathroom

it is decorated with gold "ornaments", in the

kitchen which has miniature ornaments on

it. And one tiny little tinsel tree--I'm not sure

where it will go yet.

How many do you have?

Do your kids have their own tree?

When are we putting up the tree? Most families

put their trees up over Thanksgiving weekend.

That's the time when everyone is together

and there is extra time to decorate the tree.

I guess there are people who wait to put up

their tree-especially if they have a real tree.

I don't know anyone who does this,

Ours is up later than usual and I still need

to decorate it.

When do you put up your tree?

~Keep on Dreaming~

Memories of Christmas' Past

As I was reading blogs this afternoon, I stopped

at Blushing Rose by: Marydon. She got me to

thinking about Christmas' past. Marydon asked

what kind of Chrismas mischief did her readers

get into as children.

I told a story that I remembered from my child-

hood:

One year I wanted a specific doll, I couldn't

wait until Christmas so I devised the idea

that sometime when Mom was in the bathroom

I would climb behind our tree and check out this

one present that I just knew held the doll I

had been wanting. The opportunity came and

I did climb behind the tree, open the top of the

present and peek inside. To my wandering eyes

THE DOLL was in the box!!!! Well, I heard a

certain noise from the bathroom which meant

I needed to get the paper back on the box and

GET OUT from behind the tree. Mom was none

the wiser and i don't know if I ever told her

about this.

Another story:

When I was five, I was in my Mom's bathroom

and I just happened to spy my presents under

my Mom's bed due to the bed hadn't been made

yet. I pointed out to her that i could see the

presents. Needless to say, she had to find a

new hiding place for the presents.

Now my question to you is "What kind of

Christmas mischief did you get into as

a child?"

~Keep on Dreaming~

It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Just a quick peek at decorating preparations here at our
house. Now you have to realize that this is only a portion
of the decor we have but for reasons that could be a whole
other post we will be using the goodies in these bags and
boxes. We have moose, a village in the red box, snowmen,
trees, ornamnents for jars and bowls and enough music
to last past the holiday season.

These bags hold all the goodies needed to decorate our

tabletop tinsel tree plus the decorations for the rest of

the house. The moose sit on this sled and Mr. Snow-

man will have a place of honor.

The Old Navy bag holds a jingle bell wreath that I'll

try on the front door this year and the other bag holds

more snowmen. You think I like snowmen?? Your

bet I do!

Now, once I get everything placed and fluffed, I'll

take more pictures so you can see where every-

thing was placed.

Have a great day!

~Keep on Dreaming~

Everybody has Music!!!

To quote another song:

"Baby, it's cold outside!"

Speaking of songs, with all the different Christmas songs

available why does the radio play the SAME ones over

and over and over? I just can't figure that one out.

Anyway---WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS

SONG, CAROL OR HYMN?

Some of mine are:

"Mary Did You Know?"

"Sleigh Ride"

"Silent Night"

"Jingle Bells"

"White Christmas"

Just to name a few. Have a song filled day!!!

~Keep on Dreaming~

Forcast Calls for Snow and Bitter Winds!

Good Morning!
You can't tell by the picture but it is the morning here.
We woke up to a dusting or so of snow and bitterly cold
winds. I think we moved to the tundra and I wasn't told
about this! Of coures my school district thinks it is warm
enough for all of us to be out in this! So I'm off to work!
To quote two songs:

"The weather outside is frightful."

"Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it snow."

Have a wonderfully warm day!




~Keep on Dreaming~

We Have A WINNER!!!!!

As the title states--"We have a winner!!"

These are the eight names that were entered into

the "Kansas City Christmas" giveaway.

Each tag was folded and then mixed up in the bowl.

Drumroll please----Our winner is Karen--Over the

Backyard Fence! Yea! Yea! Karen will recieve goodies

from right here in the KC area. There will be a post

on this at a later date.

Karen if you will email me your address I'll get your

goodies to you!!!!

Thanks to all who entered!

~Keep on Dreaming~

A Ten Year Milestone!!

See this happy couple? Do you know why they are grinning
from ear to ear. BECAUSE...Today was their 10th Wedding
Anniversary!!

This would be the delicious restaurant that we went to.

Ken's Dad--who I call "Pops" went with us AND treated

us to dinner!!! Yum! Yum!

The delish looking plate above was what they brought me!

It also came with a salad AND we had split a six onion ring

rack before the meals arrived. Ok focus--two count them

two HUGE pork chops and one HUGE potato. Now when

I ordered this I KNOW the menu said GRILLED PORK

CHOP--one NOT two! So I cut the potato in half and

ate one chop and half of the potato. The server boxed

the rest to take home. Boy, was I FULL !!!!!!!!

The platter above is what Ken and his Dad both ordered!

Three types of ribs-lamb, beef and pork plus two sides

and bread. Needless to say they had food boxed too.

Now when you see the next picture, PLEASE--No

drooling on your computers!

Looks good doesn't it? Let me tell you it was and it was

complimentary--for our anniversary!

A chocolate molten brownie with ice cream split three ways.

I'm not really sure how any one person could eat THIS by

themselves.

Our ten year anniversay dinner was a HUGE

success--Thanks POPS!!! We love you.

***Scroll down to the next post to see more fun!!

~Keep on Dreaming~

Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights around town--The trees are on a roof.

The above and next three are in one our parks.

A train car decorated. ALL ABOARD!!!

Candles by the street.

A decorated windmill.

These last two are from two homes in the neighborhood.

Ken and I love to go looking at Christmas lights-it is one

of our holiday traditions. What traditions do you have??

~Keep on Dreaming~