It is snowing here. Real
J helped decorate the tree this year. Our ornaments seem much stranger and more funny than I remember. Here are my favorites:
J asked if this was an ashtray. It is not, but it does appear to be a Precious Moments moment painted on the inside of a really ugly shell and shellacked. Christmas time!
This was originally a birthday cake decoration. It, at one point, had a whole body. The hows and whys of the trip it took from decorative topper to hideously scary disembodied clown head ornament remains a mystery. Egg nog? Cookie?
This one’s not so much scary as embarrassing. For me. I have decided to reclaim me embarrassment by posting my second grade school picture ornament on the internet. Happy Festivus!
This one is totally my favorite. A friend of my dad’s made heart-shaped bagels many years ago and gave them away to everyone. My dad was so impressed by the baked good that he shellacked it and promoted it to Christmas tree decoration.
Willow’s man was in town last night and we all went driving around the mountains showing off our Colorado heritage. If you were on the car tour with us, we would have shown you the flying saucer house.
Also buffalo:
We drove around Silver Plume, a tiny mountain community where Willow spent a lot of time growing up. Tourists hit the place up on the weekends, so everything was closed. None of the small town charm was lost on us, though. Here’s a bread box that sits outside the local bakery. You pay on the honor system.
More about wedding dress shopping later. Suffice to say I am a pretty pretty princess.
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