How It ALL Started.....

I think I'm finally getting in the Christmas spirit since we are home from Houston, where my forever friend received good news! I have been decorating my house for the holidays and have wanted to post all the work that I have done so my Mom can see it! I have been telling her but pictures sure do help! So the biggest tree in our house and I do mean big was decorated by my family. This is the one tree that we do together. The ornament below was one that my Mom gave me when I left home. This hung on my tree as a little girl. It meant so much to me, to be so far from home and from my Mom, to have some of the ornaments of my childhood. Then, to add to that, my Mom was the first person ever to buy me an ornament She gave this one to Kenneth and I on our wedding day, August 26, 1978! Once again, my Mom was instrumental in my love of ornaments and then the decorating! This is for you, MOM!

These are the cute little elves that come over to help decorate that really tall tree!

Keep in mind that the big guy is close to 7 foot and you still can't see the top of that tree!

Here's some more cute elves that help out at Handy Nanny's house! Great worker bees, let me tell you.........

Mr. Nanny and I like some snuggle time with these cuties!

Here is some of the Christmas decorations in this room with the big tree!

Another angle.........

The tree in all it's glory!

You may wonder how do I get all these elves to my house to decorate. Simple.....I feed them! They are suckers for my chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, & corn! Notice my Dad at the table...he rarely passes this menu up! I don't make him work, he raised me!

I will try to post the rest of the house in the next few days! It won't be much longer and I will be taking all of this down, agh!