DPP15 O Christmas Tree!

Finally up, and a few minutes later Santa, uh, Uncle Lester arrived!

The bookshelf from...the other place

We bought this lovely bookshelf when we lived in Italy. It has been taken apart only once, when we moved here, until now. Oh, it is a breeze to take apart. But you should be thankful that I'm not posting photos of us trying to put it back together. It has a very clever European system which locks all parts in place. Smooth, seamless. HOWEVER!!!! There is a problem when one tries to LIFT to lock in the bottom shelf all the while one pops "cookies" in from the back to the sides! We did it....EVENTUALLY! And we're still married. but it was not fun. and it took forever.

 So I could not help but take a picture of the thing all together and looking SO INNOCENT! With bags of games and puzzles waiting to get back in place.

 It's especially beautiful to see everything clean and tidy. Even the cat on the chair knew things were better! :)

Dinner?

She wasn't going to miss anything!

Sunday small groups

Our small group met at our house last night, hence the push to get the room finished. Here's our long-time friend, Kim, with our new friend, Ann. The room was comfortable, fit lots of people and smelled like fresh paint! Have to light a few candles and get the tree up now.

Italian Cooking Class Dinner

These lovely girls came over and we all made an

Italian dinner. I was great fun to have these girls over.Thanks for a wonderful, memorable evening, girls!

 Cin cin!

 We had a great wine server, too!

Operation Restore Order!

Now for curtains and pictures and shelves back up!

Yesterday's birthday girl.

We have a rotating slide show off to the side of our desktop. This photo came up this morning, I just had to post it! I'm glad you had a great birthday, Emily!