Last night our little family went to the Festival of Trees. What a neat place. It was held in a big conference center downtown, and talk about a christmas atmosphere. And so many Christmas trees! It's a competition where companies sponser a person to decorate a christmas tree. There were glitzy trees, sports themed trees, mod trees, old fashioned trees...and there was a fabulous gingerbread house and decorated christmas cake competition as well!!! I did not know this. Look out people, I will be entering both or at least one of those competitions next year! I can make a cake or a gingerbread house!!!!

Anyhow, thought I'd post a pic or two of some of the fabulous trees we saw. I'm so in love with the 'woodland' theme tree this year. Unfortuneately finding ornaments in this theme appears to be more difficult than I had imagined!! There were so many 'glizy' trees. I loved them. And gigantic ornaments. So pretty. Perhaps I just like shiny and glitter.
This was the first of our christmas outings. Monday, being the first day of December, is officially the day I can start putting up christmas decorations! Hopefully tomorrow we can get our lights up on our house. Lots of people on our street already have their lights up and turned on at night. A little early, but one must think 'safety' here and be doing lights before the really cold weather and snow hits. I'm hoping we can be safety concious and do the same.

Oooh, a new post...for the two people that read my blog. As one would say..."WHOOT!!!!" The picture above is just a reminder of the nice warm (short) fall weather we had. Back when I could still take the doggers for a walk. I really do enjoy fall. I love the colours and the smells in the air. (I actually like the smell of cranberries ripening....most people would say they smell like stinky feet...but there is such an 'earthy' smell to them...totally reminds me of fall). And having the dogs always encouraged me to get out to T-Park, because, of course, T-Park is one of their favorite places and going for a walk is always the highlight of their day. Now the highlight of their day is being curled up on the floor by my feet. Eventually once the baby gets a couple weeks older, I'll be taking them back out to the park...for short walks anyhow. Cold weather does not encourage me to get out.
So, anyone excited about Christmas yet?????? Anyone interested in decorating for Christmas yet????? I am. But according to the Christmas guru (a friend of a neighbor friend) official decorating for Christmas cannot start until Dec.1. Of course not all people listen to this.....as shown by a couple of houses on my street...but I will. Although I'm itching to put up a wreath on my door that I found a Superstore for cheap. It's real and it needs some decoration on it, but it's a real wreath! Had a real one last year and loved it! So as a new and official re-start to the blog, be on the look out for christmas celebration pictures!!