Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all my blogger friends!

 

Thought I'd share a few  of our indoor decorations...

A little bit of my Christmas rabbit couple

behind Smiley Snowman.

The grandsons at the in-laws.

 

Santa Claus was very good this year. If the rain and thunderstorms could have been snow instead, would have been perfect...ha.

Take care,
Sheila

Frosty the Snowman...

Okay, here is the link for the second installment of our ride through the lights.
http://youtu.be/WPyUA-YPgbs

 Thought I'd share a few pictures of our outside decorations...

 

The mailbox

front door with bells on the porch lights

View from the road

Outside tree with presents and snowman...

I love snowmen...

and snow. :-)

Our seesawing penguin and polar bear.

Close up of tree and presents.

There are bows on the tree, I'll

have to take a picture in the daylight so you

can see them.

 

Mr. Snowman

Penguin and Polar bear.

That's the big red bow behind the rocking chair,

it was on the front door last year.

Oh, what fun it is to ride....

Jarin and I went throught the Festiv@l of Lights the Monday after Thanksgiving. I had her video as we went through. I have been trying off and on since then to make a video I could post. I first worked to take off the sound. Once I accomplished that I added music. Wouldn't post, so I changed the type of file so it would be smaller, still wouldn't post. I split it up in clips by Christmas song, still to big. So this is what I have now, small clips without music. As I get more of them ready I'll post them...

It might be a good thing because to watch the whole video you would need a little Dramamine to prevent motion sickness. Someone was a little fast moving from one side to the other... I won't name any names (see beginning of post) but I was driving...ha. :-D

Jarin says I can make a y0utube account and link the video from there...I'm still thinking on that one.
(Ok, here's a link to the first video clip with music... http://youtu.be/ir12wHYdwgk)

My brother Ronnie has a blog now...check him out!

Hope you enjoy the first installment... Take care, Sheila

Everyone loves a parade...

Here are a few pictures I took of the Christmas parade in Mocksville. It was mostly antique cars and tractors. I wanted to go to a small town parade and I enjoyed it. Jarin went with me. Of course, they threw out lots of candy. I gave most of what I picked up to the little girls in front of me. This was on the 17th of November, I think they had it earlier this year for some reason. Santa was at the end, he was walking and stopped at the intersection and was quickly surrounded by children. So I didn't get a picture of him. I'm used to him being on a float or firetruck at the end. I saw some pictures, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, of the Mount Airy Christmas parade. I think I'll try to go to it next year. I didn't hear anything about it until afterward or I might have went this year. Jack I knew you'd enjoy these cars...I have a few more that I didn't post this time.

This was a guy on one of the bikes with a large front wheel.

He drove in circles, I'm assuming because he didn't have brakes.

The little Food Lion truck.

This looked like it should have been pulled by horses.

Yes, there were horses in the parade...

and a high school band and all such as that.

No shriners on go carts though...

Oh yeah, and Daniel Boone and his parents lived in

the area...

Happy December,
Sheila

Is that turkey I smell...

We survived Halloween and now we are a day away from Thanksgiving...

Here are a few pics of the Halloween decorations in the dark...

This pumpkin was on the floor under the cat above.

Mr. Skeleton Dracula...

Miss Witch and pumpkins...

 black cat

and my costume for the night....

spider headband

I also had scary stuff playing when I opened the door for the little trick or treaters.

Jarin and I went to the Christmas parade in Mocksville this past Saturday. I wanted to go to a small town Christmas parade. We have the Festival of Lights here, probably go to that next Monday or Tuesday. I'm hoping it won't be as crowded during the week as it is on the weekend. 

We also got our Christmas stuff put up outside last Sunday. We haven't turned it on yet, but at least it is done. 

Now we wait for tomorrow and the cooking and eating that goes along with it...

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

How about that, I managed to mention Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas in one blog post... :-)

Take care,

Sheila

My fall decor...

The first two pictures are the items I bought half off at Rite Aid...

That is my favorite starbucks mug in the pic.

no, it's not decoration, I was about to drink out of it.

My fiber optic cat

He faces the front door.

I also have a pumpkin on the floor in front of him too.

I'll have to take a pic of both with the lights out.

I bought these last year...so I think you seen these and the

cat above last year.

I didn't buy the bales of hay or any mums this year so the outside looks a little bare. I'll get a picture of it in the dark too. We are supposed to be windy this weekend thanks to Sandy and it will be a lot colder next week...Yay!! 

Hubby got his new glasses Friday (the other ones were just new frames for the ones he had). He asked if I wanted to go somewhere to eat, so I said yes and got ready. Usually we meet somewhere when he gets off work, but he came home this time and we went on my vehicle. He kidnapped me and next thing I knew we were at the mall... via Marshalls first... I try to avoid the mall as much as possible...ha. Wasn't too bad I did get two shirts out of the deal...he needed new dress shoes for work. We went to eat at the Mexican place in town when we were done. It was good.

Have a great weekend,

Sheila

A trimming we will go....

Hubby bought me a present yesterday, isn't he so sweet.

I told him I need to buy some flower stickers to decorate it.

When he cuts the grass I help by trimming and edging. We have an electric one he bought in Mobile when his gas one got temperamental about whether it was going to start or not. It was no fun for me having to move it and the extension cord around the house so I mentioned a battery operated one. Well we quit cutting the grass and hired someone to do it until this past week. Our guy had been out of work, but he now has a full time job and doesn't have the extra hours to keep cutting grass. Good for him, I'm so glad he found a job! So anyway, Hubby cut it yesterday and I got a new trimmer :-D. To save trips back and forth to empty the lawn clippings, we put one of the blankets the movers left behind on the ground. Hubby would dump clippings 3 or so times and I would drag it to the back and empty it and come back. Now today it is raining.

By the way, I love the trimmer, so much easier to use...they have the blower that uses the same type battery, maybe that will be next on the list...

Have a great week,
Sheila