It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!

My dear husband Steve tries to act like Scrooge but I think he secretly loves Christmas as much as I do. However, he really hates it when I beg him every year to put up the lights. This year was no exception. But I persisted and he did a really nice job with what we had. I was quite grateful that he'd done ANYTHING!
Our neighborhood and especially our street has always been quite festive at holiday time. And this year it's gotten even BETTER! Our neighbors across the street are new to the area and when they started putting up Christmas lights this year they totally put our meager display to shame! So I started doing a bit more. We put some garland around our porch and put some bows on the garland. It wasn't much but it was better than before. While we were doing the garland the neighbors were putting up lights on their roof to spell out "Peace". Next thing I knew Steve was talking about doing a "better job" of spelling out words on the roof! I had to giggle because it's so different from what he had BEEN saying! Finally he decided he was going to at least get more lights the next day.
Meanwhile, I had to go to the scrappy store to work on a project with my BFF Shelley. I was gone ALL day and when I pulled into the driveway I laughed and said "Scrooge has left the building!!!"
My dear, dear husband had done himself right! Apparently he'd seen a clip on the news before going to work which gave him an idea. Then he had stopped into the dollar store for something for work and saw these HUGE gift bags and little stockings. The two came together for a wonderful idea! A string of lights and a little bit of labor and I have a pretty decent Christmas display! Thanks Honey Bunny!!!
So without further adieu, here's a slideshow of our house, the neighbors across the street and their next door neighbors' house. (Harry and Carol are always the first to put their lights up!) Now I need to finish decoration the INSIDE of the house! ;) I created the slideshow on Photobucket. Isn't it FUN? MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!! And remember, Jesus is the Reason for the Season! (Link isn't working so slideshow's in the next post. Scroll down and enjoy!)