Officially Festive

Today I finished putting up the tree. There was an incident the other day--an incident involving the running out of hooks--and I had to make a trip to Target before the decorating could be finished. But now the tree is up in all its glory.



It's displaying the best of the best: Baby's First Christmas ornaments, ornaments my brother and I made in Girl and Boy Scouts, ornaments made out of clothespins, Hallmark Keepsakes that we get every year from our mother, snowflake ornaments with our school pictures inside, penguin ornaments, disco ball ornaments, best friend ornaments with names carved on them(Jess & Tammy, 1994), lighthouse ornaments, pickle ornaments, ornaments made out of nuts and pinecones. We are nothing if not an eclectic tree decorating family.

Examples:



You can't beat a fat TV-watching penguin.



And who doesn't like a zebra?



And there he is--my brother--many years before Hooters ever entered his vocabulary.