Thursday, December 08, 2011

Christmas lights at Grandma and Grandpa's house

Since most of you won't be here for Christmas I thought I would share some of our Christmas fun with you through pictures.  This is part one:  Christmas Lights
First is our living room tree and window.
On the landing of the stairs leading to the basement is where Mr & Mrs Santa greet our guests.

Downstairs on the counter behind the "wittle" "yitto" kitchen is the Christmas village.  This year I added a water fall.  It is the dark area in the middle of the picture.  It is aluminum foil water falling into a mirror.

Next is the downstairs Christmas tree.

Now we go out in the back to see the tree Grandma decorated.  See did a great job.  It is my favorite tree.

Grandpa did this one.

This is the same tree with the water fall on the left and the cobble stone walk of fame in the middle.

This is a close up of the grandchildren cobble stone walk of fame.  Notice that just to the right the little windmill is also lit.

Now back inside are the lights in the family room window.  I use little suction cups to attach the lights to the window.

The lights in the master bedroom.

Outside are the lights on the west hill of the driveway.

Lights looking south from in front of the garage.

Front of the house.

Front including Narby's lights in front of their house.

This is our forest scene.  This year about half the lights on our15 year old Costco tree stopped working so I tore the tree apart and used many of the branches to create this lighted meadow.

Front porch.

View of Narby (left) and our house (right)  from Western Ave.  What people see as they drive up Maiden Lane.

This is a closer of just our house with my new and improved "Merry Christmas" lights.  Rather than manually  spelling out the words each year, after Christmas last year, I cut out the letters using two sheets of 4'x8'white rubber/vinyl board and then zip tied the lights onto it.  This year I simply had to put up the letters instead of spelling the whole thing in lights manually.  Much easier and much less time consuming and I think they look better.  The lights look much better in person than in pictures so any of you who would like to join Cassi & Caled are welcome to see the lights in person.
Have a very Merry Christmas!!!



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