Santa Claus visited our neighborhood!

Every year, the Saturday evening before Christmas, our local fire department comes through our neighborhood with Santa Claus up high on a fire truck! Sirens wailing and the sides of the truck all lit up, he throws candy for the kids and with a "Ho Ho Ho" wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!

We joined most of our neighbors to watch for his yearly visit!

This is our neighbor's Christmas decorations! They have more, too, that are all over their house. This is just a photo of their yard. They make their pine trees look like candy canes, with red and white lights. Every year, they seem to add something else new and interesting!

Here comes Santa Claus! He's turning onto our street!

You can barely see him in this photo! It was dark and those flashing lights were so bright!

Isaac enjoyed watching the flashing lights! He never cried, although it was close to his bed time, so he was getting a little sleepy. After chit chatting with our neighbors a little, we headed back inside to give Isaac his bath and put him to bed.

Sleepy cats

Fluffy is one of Romeo's kittens (now 3+ years old), and she's my favorite...shhhhh...don't tell the others. Really, they're all my favorites in their own special ways! Tommy's my favorite boy kitty (and the only one..heee heee)... and Romeo is "the best kitty ever". Callie is really Princess Callie, so that's very special too! They're all such good little kitties, and we're so happy they're part of our family.

This spot under the dining room table is Tommy's favorite nap spot. He likes to brace himself up against a corner and curl up! He moves away pretty quick, however, if Isaac comes crawling under there!

The sun was pouring in our back window, and Romeo (grey/white) was getting comfortable for a nap. Her kitten, Callie (3+ years old) is still pretty attached to her Mommy, so she decided to cuddle up with her on the back of the loveseat. Romeo does not always put up with her "loving" ways, but this time she allowed Callie to share her spot, and even gave her a little licking--reminescent of her days as a tiny little kitten getting washed by Romeo.

Romeo looks a little annoyed, and Callie looks like a spoiled child--happy she got her way.

Isaac and Mommy

Isaac found the cat's jingle ball, and so I cleaned it and gave it to him to play with. The cats have several more that they can play with. Plus, at this stage, his toys end up scooted around all over the floor, which couldn't be much worse than him playing with a cat toy. That sounds terrible, but thankfully God put an anti-bacterial agent in babies mouths that helps prevent them from getting sick from every little germ they ingest ---especially during the crawling stage!! He doesn't really put "everything" in his mouth yet, like little pieces from the ground, but he does like to put objects in his mouth. He also likes to chew on the arms of our wooden rocking chair in the living room.

Here's Mommy playing around with the color setting on my camera!

I really like this one! Sepia tone reminds me of historic photographs! Maybe a long time from now this one will be seen by many more future generations, and they'll comment about how "old" it is!! I love to look at old photos from my great grandparents and grandparents.

My crafty Christmas wreath

I made a Christmas wreath for our front door! It was really fun!

For the past couple of years we had a berry wreath, but the berries started cracking and falling apart badly. We threw it away last year! So, this year I decided to make one!