Christmas already?

Yesterday Ben and I had lunch with our friend Beth who works at PGE with us. This officially kicked off the Christmas season for us. Beth surprised us with a gift - which was a personalized advent calendar. So sweet of her to think of us. Ben has already started scoping out spots for it in our home. But it doesn't stop there...

This morning Ben got out all of the Christmas lights (and there's a lot) and started putting them up around the house. This is in spite of receiving an official letter from the HOA stating thou shall not have any holiday display in excess of one month before of the holiday. But thechnically the day after Thanksgiving is more than one month before the holiday, so that's a dumb rule. I guess we're going to be rebels.

Ben has plans for lots and lots of lights... thank goodness we get a discount on electricity.

This afternoon we went to Sleighbells in Sherwood to pick up some Christmas ornaments. We decided an appropriate tradition to go there each year and get two ornaments. I have officially started a collection of Krinkles, but then Ben declared he just doesn't like them very much... so he picked one and I picked one.


In case you're wondering.... you have 43 shopping days left till Christmas! (or somewhere around there)