Happy Cool Monday! :) Special Christmas Deliveries, Gifts, Treasures :) Happy Holiday's! :)

Happy Cool Monday! :) Greetings, from my blossoming Christmas town! :) Twas a day before the arrival of December 1st! :) We recieved very special Christmas gifts and treasures! :) We're enjoying a nice day, blossoming into the new week :) It's been an awesome stretch of days, with all of the excitement of Thanksgving week, holiday, baking friday, and big birthday celebrations weekend :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in, and celebrating these special times with us :) You all made my mom's and Alyssa's birthday's very special, and memorable :) During the evening yesterday, we had a nice time celebrating Alyssa's birthday :) We enjoyed some sandwiches, pizza, salads, and strawberry shortcake :) the kids had lots of fun playing, and showed us their collectibles, and video games :) they were so proud to show us :) Alyssa got some awesome gifts, including cards, money, gift cards, a cooking set, and more :) She had a great birthday, and is very happy :) We'll always treasure the great memories made, from the weekend, and last week, and we're so happy and excited to blossom into the month of December, and the holiday season :) Holly and i have began to Christmas-ize our home, with some awesome fun decorating :) We're setting up our Christmas tables, and i'm decorating my Christmas town :) it's coming along really well :) i decorated my DS Christmas tree, and also stringing up some lights : )We're going to be putting more and more decoratings around our living room, and hallway, as the season blossoms : )We're loving hearing about your decorating, and sharing about ours :) There's so much more, to look forward too :) We recieved very special Merry Christmas gifts, and treasures! :) We're so happy, excited, and thrilled! :) We're ordering stamps tomorrow for some Christmas time mailings :) We've got the sports radio on, and Holly and i gonna begin re-watching "Scrubs" show :) We're indoors today, as it's very stormy, windy, and raining. we hope the sunshine returns soon :) We're doing some online browsing, for gifts, and collectibles, free samples too :) Enjoying a nice day, with family, friends, and the spirit of the blossoming holiday season :) Tomorrow's sweet treats tuesday! :) We look forward to going out to get some treats :)



Blossoming into the new week! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day as we blossom into the new week :) Twas the day before December 1st, and the holiday season is arriving :) We're enjoying a nice day and a great start to the new week :) it's been a big stretch of days, with all of the Thanksgiving week festivities, traditions, holiday, baking friday, and 2 big birthday celebrations this past weekend :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for celebrating with us, all of the joys of the week, and all of the great memories made, that we'll always cherish and treasure :) We're very happy, and thankful to have you all in our lives, and to be able to celebrate these special times with everyone :) We have so much more to look forward too, with the holiday season arriving, friend's birthday's in December, Christmas holiday, and new year :) We look forward to all of the upcoming times, and many more special memories being made :)



During the evening yesterday, we had a birthday party celebration for Alyssa :) her 31st birthday :) We went over to Alyssa's and family's home around 5pm :) The moon was visible in the sky, it looked amazing, just like how it did on halloween night in October :) We enjoyed seeing the moon :) We arrived at Alyssa's, my brother Bobby and family, and Kayla and Zach went, and some of Aj's side of the family. :) You all were with us in spirit :)We all wished Alyssa a happy birthday :) The kids were having lots of fun playing, they were so excited to show us their collectible funko mystery minis :) they displayed them just like how i display my collectibles, on my shelves : )They also had their video games on :) We got ready to enjoy dinner :) We had grinders sandwiches, pizza, and salad :) we also had some sprite soda :) dinner was delicious! :) We were all hanging out :) Alyssa opened her gifts :) She got some nice birthday cards, money, gift cards, a cooking set, and more :) Holly and i gave Alyssa, a card, $25, a starbucks gift card, and a make-up set :) Alyssa loves her gifts, and is very happy :) We sang happy birthday to Alyssa :) We had some strawberry shortcake :) it was delicious :) We were at Alyssa's birthday party until about 7pm :) We thanked Alyssa and Aj for having us over, and for the nice dinner :) on the way home, we saw some nice Christmas lights, including our local fire department that put lights on their building :) they also are selling Christmas trees :) We're so happy, my mom and Alyssa had great birthday's this past weekend :) they love their gifts, and are so thankful, and appreciative :)



This morning, we had a nice new day, rising and shining :) i was up early, enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :) i was also getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) we had stormy weather in our forecast, for 11am to tonight. i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) it was thankfully calm outside, but nature exciting with our nature friends visiting :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) i saw bluejays, a woodpecker, sparrows :) it was so nice, and nature active :) i love seeing our nature friends gathering goodies :) they got a chance to gather the goodies, before the weather got stormy. We look forward to the sunshine returning, and also hoping for some winter wonderland snowfalls in December, for the holiday's :) it be so neat, if it snows, and is a white Christmas, especially around Christmas Eve, and Holiday :) We'd love to take this time to share with everyone, about some very special, and wonderfully heart warming Merry Christmas gifts, and treasures we recieved :)



Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Canada! :) Awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming, very special, and Christmas sweet :) Cheers!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy, excited, and thrilled! :) We recieved a very special delivery, from our dear and lovely friends Amira 101, and Thomas :) awww! :) this is so very wonderfully nice, sweet, very thoughtful, and generous :) We're smiling and smiling :) We love Christmas surprises, and deliveries :) Amira and Thomas sent my family, Holly, and i, a sweet, and festive, Merry Christmas card :)Awww! :) on the front of the card, there's a heart-warming festive Christmas scene :) Snoopy,and Woodstock, and the Charlie Brown and Peanuts Christmas tree :) awww! :) there's a winter wonderland scene :) inside the card, Amira wrote us a sweet note, wishing us a Merry Christmas :) awww! :) We're so happy, and excited to display our Christmas cards, and the very special tradition, of displaying our cards on our living room wall, for Christmas Eve :) The card is so nice, and sweet :)



Amira, and Thomas also sent us, 2 wonderful Christmas gifts, and treasures :) awww! :) They sent us, an awesome, Tim Horton's cup themed Christmas ornament, and a Tim Horton's Travel Cup! :) oh wow!!! :) This is super mega sweet spirited awesome!!! :) We love Tim Horton's, and it's very special to our hearts, and touched our hearts :) When Tim Horton's was here, we use too go to Tim Horton's on $1 iced coffee tuesday's, which began the sweet treats tuesday tradition :) The Tim Horton's Travel Cup, and Ornament are so nice, and wonderful gifts :) they have the Canada Maple Leaf on them :) i'm so excited and very happy to enjoy some of my favorite drinks, cold and hot, in my Tim Horton's Travel Cup :) i'm super pumped up and excited! :) i know Amira and Thomas enjoy some teas, and drinks, and when i'm using my tim horton's travel cup, and displaying our Christmas card and ornament, i'll be thinking of Amira, Thomas, and their family :) Cheers! to wonderful family, friends, and to the beautiful spirit of friendship, and the holiday's :) We love these very special gifts and treasures, and will always cherish and treasure them :) i'm going to display our sweet Christmas card in my Christmas town : )Amira, Thomas, you all are very nice, sweet, generous, and very thoughtful :) my family, Holly, and i thank you so very much! :) We deeply appreciate your wonderful kindness, and generousity, with all of the love of our hearts :) Sending our love, and Merry Christmas smiles, and happy friendship smiles across the miles, from our hearts and home to yours :)



With the new week blossoming, we're so excited to be enjoying some preparations for the month of December, and holiday's :) bringing out some Christmas decorations, and doing some decorating :) it's so much fun :) We're very happy and excited, that everyone enjoyed viewing pictures of the cool popcorn tin, featuring the Washington football team, that our dear friend Linda (Lilysawyer) sent us, and pictures of our christmas decorations, my Christmas town :) We look forward to enjoying our popcorn, watching football, Christmas movies, and continuing to decorate :) Today, i decorated my DS Christmas tree with ornaments, and also set up the jingle bells movie theater, in my Christmas town :) our table displays are coming along really well :) Holly and i love decorating, and will be putting lots more decorations all around our living room, and hallway :) We love sharing in all of the festivities, and traditions of the holiday season with everyone :)



Today, we've been hanging out, doing some decorating, writing, and also got the sports radio on :) we love tuning into the radio, especially after a football sunday :) We're also looking forward to watching our shows this week, bringing out our Christmas movies, along with new movies arriving in the mail :) i ordered some gifts online last week, that will be arriving soon, and also my cool collectibles from fright rags site will be arriving soon :) i'm very excitd to see the bonus cards, and stickers i get in the packages :) with it being cyber monday shopping sales, i've been browsing some of the sites, amazon, ebay, and fright-rags :) i want to order some video games on ebay soon, for Mikey, and Hunter :) they love the nintendo wii games :) i found some on ebay, sports games, and a cool space camp themed game, i'd love to buy for them for Holly and i to give them :) We're buying stamps, US and International tomorrow :) We're looking forward to Christmas mailings :)



We're enjoying a nice day, blossoming into the new week :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) We've been enjoying some nice foods, snacks, drinks, and tuning into the sports talk radio :) Holly and i are enjoying decorating our tables, for the holiday's :) our Christmas displays are coming along really well :) i've decorating my DS Christmas tree, and also got the jingle bells theater set and ready, for tomorrow :) it's amazing, how tomorrow is december 1st :) i'm enjoying some writing time, and looking forward to mailing out some envelopes, and also going to buy some more stamps, for Christmas time mailings :) There's so much more, to look forward too as the season blossoms :) Holly and i are going to watch "Scrubs" show tonight :)We look forward to re-watching the seasons :) Tomorrow's sweet treats tuesday! :) We look forward to going out to get some treats, and also doing some more decorating for the holiday's :) keep healthy, safe, and strong everyone :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special heart warming joy you all bring to our days, our hearts, and our lives :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group happy sunny caring sunny happy holiday's friendship hug :) You all give us strength, hope, inspiring us to enjoy each day to the fullest :) Thank you all, for brightening our days and making each day very special :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) We look forward to sharing in many more very special times, adventures, and all of the fall season traditions and festivities with family, friends, nature walks, and the wonderful spirit of the Holiday season :)



-never lose hope :)



To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a nice day, blossoming into the new week, reflecting back upon the great celebrations weekend, and doing some holiday decorating :) my Christmas town is coming along really well, and looks festive :) i'm very excited to order some stamps, and writing Christmas cards to mail out soon :) We've got lots of festivities, and traditions planned, for the whole month of December :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day" :) awww! :) we love you all lots and lots, our sweet dear angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day as we blossom into the new week :) We're looking forward to more decorating, for the holiday's, Christmas town, and writng christmas cards soon :)



Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Canada! :) Awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming, very special, and a sweet Christmas time joy :) my family,Holly, and i are so happy, and excited! :) We love our wonderful Christmas gifts, that our dear and lovely friends Amira101, and Thomas sent us :) We love our Merry Christmas card, Tim Horton's Ornament, and Travel Cup :) This is so nice, sweet, and very thoughtful of them :) We'll always cherish and treasure, these wonderful gifts :) We love sharing in, and celebrating the holiday's with everyone :) Amira, Thomas, my family, Holly, and i thank you so very much! :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Merry Christmas Smiles :)
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We had a nice time celebrating Alyssa's birthday :) We had a celebration party at Alyssa's house :) We enjoyed foods, drinks, and strawberry shortcake :) We're so happy Alyssa had a great birthday, and lots of great memories made :) i took some pictures at Alyssa's birthday party :) You all were with us in spirit :)


Alyssa's birthday cake :) Strawberry shortcake, her favorite :) 
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Christmas Town is set, and ready for 25 days of Christmas! :) Greetings from my Christmas town! :) i'm having lots of fun setting up and decorating my Christmas town for the holiday season :) Today, i decorated my DS Christmas tree with ornaments, lights, and set up the Jingle Bells Theater :) my Christmas town is looking fun, festive, and cheerful :) Holly and i are having fun decorating our living room, and so excited to do some more decorating as the month of December arrives :) i took some preview pictures of my Christmas town :) Tomorrow's the grand opening of my Christmas town :) it's ready to jingle bell rock n roll, for the whole Christmas season! :)


my DS Christmas Tree :) i added ornaments, and lights :) 


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setting up the Jingle Bells Theater :)


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The Polar Express has arrived in Christmas Town and brought our Christmas town friends :) it's time for 25 days of Christmas :) 


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CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well enjoying the new week. Raining and windy here too, So nice you've been enjoying decorating and setting up Christmas town its looking very festive already, I enjoyed seeing your great Tim Horton coffee mugs and fun Snoopy card Its nice Alyssa had a wonderful birthday and enjoyed her favorite cake too. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to all there-Stephanie
Amira101
Amira101

Aww, Chris, your journal means sooo much to us today! :) I’m sooo happy to see your gifts arrived fast. Your Christmas town is coming along very nicely :)
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

how wonderful! I love your decorations and the Tim Horton stuff Amira sent you. I've been to Tim Hortons, it is like DD :D
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Wow,lnice gifts you got, that was very sweet of Amira and Thomas :-)
That strawbwrry shortckae looks so yummy, I hope everyine enjoyed it!
Your littleDS tree looks so cute all decorated and your Christmas town looks great too
Hava great day today
Hugs, Jeannie
sunsetyellow2
sunsetyellow2

Good morning Chris and Holly A snowy blustery day here in Pennsylvania. WE are forecast to get up to six inches of snow before this storm passes. We are under a winter weather advisory for today and into tomorrow morning. Right now it is only snowing lightly but I guess that is going to change later today. I love being retired and not having to go out in the snow on the bad roads.

Got my tree put together yesterday so today I am going to decorate it. I am using our big tree this year. Last year we only had the little tree because we were in the middle of remodeling the kitchen at this time of the year last year. It is hard to believe that a year has passed already with my new kitchen. I can't wait to get the house decorated today and tomorrow. Your Christmas Town looks really cute. I love the train engine. When I was growing up, we had a model train that my step brothers would put up under the Christmas Tree. We would play and play with it during the Christmas season. It even had a whistle on it and a place to put water so it would send steam out the smoke stake!!

I am so glad that all the birthday parties went well. Sounds like everyone had a great birthday. Those cakes for both your Mom's birthday and Alyssa's birthday look really delicious. That strawberry cake really looks yummy.

Only 25 more days until Christmas. I ordered a whole bunch of gifts yesterday for Cyber Monday and saved a ton of money. So I have the gifts for the boys ordered and for Johnny and Emily and Kate and Matt ordered. I can't wait for them to arrive. I got the cutest outfits for the boys from Kohls and towel sets for the other kids. The towel sets are really nice and have 12 towels with them. Then I ordered more yarn yesterday for me!! I got a really excellent deal on the yarn. I saved close to 50% on it. I was so excited. I have enough yarn now to do two more afghans.

Got to run for now. I hope we get to see the Steelers play the Ravens and Washington. AS it looks now, the Ravens game is still up in the air with the Ravens threatening to boycott the game. It is going to be interesting to see if it ever does get played or if they will forfeit. I know a lot of the fans are saying they should just forfeit because of the danger of spreading the virus and because over half their team already has tested positive. I heard they were moving the Washington game to Monday. What a mess!!!

You and Holly have a great day. Hugs John and Debbie
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

Hi Sweet Chris I love the Tim Horton travel mug and ornament Amira and Thomas gave u. They r very nice. The strawberry shortcake for Alyssa’s birthday looks great.. that’s so nice u & Holly, Kayla, Zach, Bobby and family went to Alyssa’s bday party and the kids were playing their video games and they showed their mini funco to u and they display them just like u. It’s a compliment when people like to do what u do. I like seeing all your Christmas decorations. It’s very nice. That’s nice u and Holly r doing well. Hugs and love