More than a Lamp

Well, blogger and I have difficulties communicating about the order of pictures. . .so these are in the reverse order of originally intended.

I know it's almost February, but we we just got back from travelling last Thursday and I hadn't taken down our "tree" yet and I got a camera while we were gone and so I thought I would share.

This first picture is the coolest ornament we have. It's a Scrabble board with words relating to us and 2009. My mother-in-law Sue made it for us!

This is another cool new ornament we got this year. It's from my sister and brother-in-law. :-)

And now I present our tree! Not as cool as a real one (cheaper) but bigger than any fake one we'd be willing to store the rest of the year (we're a bit short on storage space). What do you think? I think we might continue with this tree until we're in a house somewhere. . .

This is the "tree" without all of its accessories.

Another new thing we did this year was to use oven mitts instead of stockings (we don't have any of those yet). No pictures for that. It was fun stuffing something little into the thumb!