These are some of my favorite ornaments. I like the Bumble from Rudolph because, unlike me, when Bumbles fall, they just bounce. The angel has been on the tree for at least 35 years. The eggshell ornament my mom made at church. The wooden ornaments are just funny (sort of) because the bear is saluting like a WWII German soldier while the bear in the VW is driving by....hmm.

Well, here it is.....our tree. Kind of a sad little tree, but nice. It looks better with the lights, but they are tiny lights and don't show up well in pictures. If you look closely, you will see Brian's favorite ornament, the glass brown cigar from the country club.

LOOK INTO MY EYES......You WILL have a Merry Christmas!!

I was looking through pictures from last Christmas and found this scary one of our cat, Poptart. Just don't stare at the picture too long..... :-)

These are a couple of the definitely unique nativities. I can understand the Eskimo nativity, but the hippie frogs? Where do people find something like that!

Our church has a Festival of Nativities every year. There are hundreds of different nativities from all around the world. They have rooms setup for children to do nativity crafts and dress up and take pictures in a lifesize stable. These are a couple of my favorite nativities this year. The one on the left is carved out of a single piece of knotted wood.

Either the ice machine has gone wild or someone has been making sure that we have our emergency supply of snowballs (iceballs now). Luckily, I found these before someone wanted ice out of the refrigerater and these got jammed in the mechanism.

Snow and ice always bring out the best in Brian ...... That snowball looks painful! We didn't get much snow and it must have taken a long time to scrape up enough snow to make a snowball that big. As long as Brian and the neighbor's kids are around, I'll probably not have to worry about clearing off the driveway or my car from snow.