TREE DOWN, Decorations packed up!

 

I hate taking down the Christmas decorations! For one thing, it's sure not fun to UN-decorate the tree and then you have this PILE of pretty ornaments that you have to carefully wrap back up again so that NEXT year it won't be one big mess!  All I have left out are the pretty Christmas cards we got ! (TONS AND TONS of pictures cards this year!--, Now don't tell anyone, but Kemp's and Lily's were the prettiest kids pix we got, BY FAR!! hee hee) ANYWAY, We took the tree down the day after Christmas and I just put all the ornaments in a huge box and carried them----WHERE? UPSTAIRS ! Where they sat  until today. I had a MESS up here. I finished putting up all the other stuff downstairs and I just couldn't bring myself to do that yesterday. What I REALLY wanted to do today was play with my new CRICUT machine all the kids went in together and gave me for CHRISTMAS! It's the MOST AWESOME die cut machine EVER! You don't have to use a computer, either! I am DYING to use it! BUT, I wanted a time when I didn't have anything else pressing on me---like PUTTING UP THE CHRISTMAS STUFF! HAHA!......SO, anyway, here's a few pictures of the tree and my pretty decorations BEFORE they went to hibernate, for the next 362 days---

P.S. I'm going to add my new Cricut (prounounced CRICKET) machine website above! CHECK IT OUT!