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We bought a couple of these beautiful gold ones at a Christmas store in Garmisch, Germany. So delicate. Wish I had gotten more!

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A unique ornament that we had made while living in Italy. Good thing we didn't have any more children after that! :)

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The Westroads Flash Mob looking down from the upper level. It got even more packed!

Here's just a bit of the singing!

The baking begins

The meat pie looked so good that I had to take a photo. The puff pastry makes it yummy!

And a cascade of gingerbread. This is from my Grandmother's recipe who wrote on the recipe that it was HER mother's recipe. Over 100 years old!

Amazing Legos

I had some fun with a couple of boys Wednesday afternoon. We pulled out the Lego container AND the old ship. They were happy for hours!

But we had to take a little break to play with the cat... dangling "mouse" on a string! It was so funny!

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! :)