Day Two - The Trimming Continues

Keep your Christmas-heart open all year round.  ~Jessica Archmint

Today Is Repositioning & Cleanup!

Page Created: 12/01/2024 Page Last Updated: 12/04/2024 00:40

2024-12-03 Day Two Of Decorating At Casa Valencia

We were up and running early, had our coffee, and got ready for the dentist appointments. Between every moment, we continued the finalization of the decorating process.

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The empty boxes are piling up!

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OMG, we needs a storage facility!!!

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The family room table has the glass globes and some music boxes.

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We have eight Christmas pillows which we change for every season.

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Who was here and left their shoes???

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We departed for the dentist at 10:00 am and managed to get Mary's painting supplies in the trunk as we knew she wold not make it back home before having to go to class!

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We see Dr. _____ She is in the same office as her father and uncle.

We made it back home at 3:30 pm and began decorating again! This time is was easy as all we had to do was rearrange and relocate things.

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Grandpa was decorated but he still needs his light to be plugged in!

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The houses are in place, we will call Edison tomorrow to get them hooked up!

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Guarding the front door.

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Almost looks livable!

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We love the bright red Poinsettias!

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The counter no longer has a lot f space.

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The Wise Men are watching.

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Momma Liles' made these guys out of wine bottles, newspaper, and plaster of Paris over sixty years ago! The faces are painted on the wine corks!!

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We have frogs all over the house!


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We are infested with frogs!

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Even the kitchen is dolled up!

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The kitchen island has so many trees the TV is hidden!

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The Liles' boys gave Grandma Mary flows at Thanksgiving and they are still doing well!!

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A real short story!!

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It is getting time to lite off the fireplace in the evenings!

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Snowden and friends! The Adventures of Snowden the Snowman is an Christmas-themed special, based on Target's beloved holiday snowman named Snowden, that premiered on as a Target-Exclusive VHS release for the 1997 Holiday season

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We have three bags of various nuts to keep these little buggers busy!

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Nap time at the North Pole!

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Mama Liles' made this picture from "junk jewelry" pasting them onto a velvet backing and we added lights to make it even more dramatic. This is about sixty years old!

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We have all the lights under Alexa's control so we can change colors at will!

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It is 53 degrees out right now!

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Do you see the Christmas climbers???

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Pesky lays at the intersection of the two "hallways" and manages to stop traffic in all directions!

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"Who? Me?"

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He does not move and trusts that we will not trip over him!!!

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Amen!!!

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The rocking chairs are full!

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A music box airplane... Just turn the propeller and it plays music.

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"Hic!" Need we say more?

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We must have two dozen coffee cups around the house just for Christmas!!

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They are watching all the goings on!

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What do we do with all the corks you ask??

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The "present tree" is 35 years old and was bought at the Huntington Beach animal shelter!

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He is sensitive to motion and if you walk by him, he sings. It tends to scare to wits outta us at night on our way through the kitchen!!

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Of course we have lighted grapes, duh!!

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Wine charms for Christmas!

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We do NOT really need tis but others may!

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The oven gets into the act this time of the year!

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Oops!

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Smile you all!

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Yes, he talks and is eyes move!

Scout is looking at his house like it just got back from a wild party. "Did we throw a rager while I was away?" he's thinking. "Is that a trampoline in my living room, or did the furniture just get really creative? And why do I smell popcorn and see glitter everywhere? Someone better confess before I start charging rent!"