MERRY CHRISTMAS! :) a wonderful holiday, with family, friends, and heart warming joy :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! :)

HAPPY CHRISTMAS SMILES! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a very happy, blessed, and very Merry Christmas with many moments of joy all throughout this beautiful day :) We're thinking of you and your family's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for your wonderful Merry Christmas wishes, and for making our Christmas and season very special and memorable :) We love celebrating with everyone :) We're very happy, and excited! :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in and celebrating the Christmas holiday with everyone :) We're all with eachother in spirit :) We hope everyone enjoys a nice Christmas dinner :) We're cherishing and treasuring all of the heart warming moments of the Christmas holiday festivities, traditions, and celebrations :) Our hearts are full of joy, happiness, and peace :) We love Christmas, the wonderful gift of your beautiful friendships, and the very special joy of getting to celebrating with everyone :) it's very special, getting to celebrate with eachother across the miles :) it's a wonderful Christmas, with many heart warming smiles being shared, and many great memories being made with family, friends, and the spirit of the holiday and season :) We're feeling very blessed, thankful, and appreciative :) that classic, festive, spirit of the season and holiday is in the air :) We will always and forever remember Christmas 2021 :) We're very heart happy and thrilled, to hear about your Christmas holiday, and sharing ours :) From our very happy hearts and holiday home to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas, and a healthy, happy new year :) We love you all bunches and bunches! :)

CHRISTMAS MORNING! :) This morning, we had a wonderful new day rising and shining :) Christmas morning is a very exciting morning :) that amazing spirit soaring excitement of waking up on December 25th, and it being Christmas morning :) i remember when i was a kid, and waking up on Christmas, and peeking into our living room and seeing presents under our Christmas tree :) it brings back lots of very special memories for me :) one of my all time favorite Christmas memories from over the years, is each Christmas morning when we were kids, my mom and dad would have it sit in the middle of the presents area and would take a picture of us with the tree and presents :) it always was so much fun, and made for a classic picture each year :) i remember being super excited, for the HUGE presents (which meant it was usually a bike or a race track set), but i also was super excited for the smallest presents too, like the Christmas stockings and each year there being one of those Life Savers Candy storybooks in the stockings :) i love those and i remember the excitement of one being in my stocking :) That awesome excitement, moments like that are always is in my heart and these days, getting to see the joy, and excitement my nephew's and nieces have for those Christmas mornings, brings back all of those special memories for me :) Christmas time memories to always treasure :)

We all were blossoming into a wonderful Christmas morning :) We all had good sleep, and were up this morning, getting set and ready for all of the Christmas holiday festivities, and traditions :) my family, Holly, and i all wished eachother a Merry Christmas, and wishing friends a Merry Christmas :) i enjoyed some nice Christmas morning time here on DS, writing to friends :) i've been sharing your wonderful Merry Christmas wishes with my family and Holly, throughout the day :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We're loving and enjoying your holiday wishes, and enjoying our holiday home, so very much with seeing our beautiful Christmas cards and gifts displayed, our treasures, our Christmas trees, lights, decorations, my Christmas town :) We're very heart happy everyone has been enjoying seeing our holiday home throughout the season :) We love hearing about your holiday home, and decorations :) Holly and i wished our cat Tiger, and all our pets in our home, a Merry Christmas :) it's Tiger's 1st Christmas with us :) She's been enjoying her treats, toys, and having such a fun time running around, she loves to cuddle up with the fleece blankets, and also watches movies with us :) We're very thankful, and blessed to have Tiger, and all our pets in our lives :)They are having some nice foods, and treats today on Christmas :) awww! :) Lots of special joy, our pets brings us :) Tiger's Christmas stocking is on her chair here, she loves to climb up onto the chair :) i put together a Christmas stocking with 18 packs of NFL stickers packs, for our cat Tiger to give to Holly and i :) Aww! :) We love including our pets, as a wonderful part of our Christmas holiday festivities, and holiday's all throughout the year :)

Christmas Moments! :) We love the moments of Christmas :) i began to get ready for my early morning Christmas nature walk :) it was incredible, and very festive sweet seeing it snow yesterday on Christmas Eve :) it snowed here until around mid-day :) We still have some snow outside here and even some freezing rain during this morning. i love to gather a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) it looks wintery all around, very Christmasy with the snowfall :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) The goodies are our gift to our nature friends :) i heard some birds around :) it looks like classic winter season with the snow all around :) We love nature, and the special joy it brings us throughout the seasons :) We think of our nature friends, especially on Christmas holiday :) we're so happy they're enjoying lots of goodies, treats, and having a Christmas holiday of their own :) it's Christmas all around :) Happy nature smiles, and Merry Christmas to our nature friends :)

Opening Christmas Presents! :) a very special Christmas morning tradition :) We all gathered in our living room, near our Christmas tree :) We love the wonderful joy, of opening presents, it's so much fun watching family open gifts, and opening gifts in front of everyone :) my mom, dad, Lisa, Kayla, Taylynn, Holly, and i, and my niece Alyssa and family came over :) The kids were so excited! : )We all gave eachother nice gifts :) Holly and i gave eachother, wonderful Merry Christmas cards :) awww! :) She painted a beautiful snow people ornament for me, i'll always treasure it :) i gave Holly, a Christmas popcorn tin, and also gave her some NFL figurines :) She and i love to collect them :) Holly gave me a box of twinnings, spiced apple tea :) it's delicious! :) She and i have been using our nice Christmas cups we gave eachother :) my mom and dad gave us, a coffee kcups maker, a reese's candy mugs set, Holly recieved some arts and crafts supplies from my mom and dad, i recieved some sports cards holders, Smokey and the bandit dvds, socks, a thermal shirt, my mom and dad gave me a Washington football team ornament, and Holly gave me one too! :) aww! :) this is wonderful! :) i gave Holly, some arts and crafts supplies, acrylic painting pens, hotwheels, socks, a NFL figurines tin ,with stadium stands, and 3 packs of the NFL figurines :) my mom and dad gave me the same tin set! :) wow!!! :) This is awesome!!! :)

We all were having so much fun opening gifts, we gave my mom, dad, Kayla, Taylynn, Alyssa, Aj, the kids, all of their gifts, they're very happy and excited! :) i gave Holly a rudolph the red nosed reindeer tin with some scented wax candle melts, Holly gave me a $25 visa gift card,my mom and dad gave me a $25 amazon gift card, and Lisa and Kayla gave me a $25 amazon gift card :) aww! :) my mom, dad, Lisa, and Kayla gave Holly, 2, $25 walmart gift cards :) Holly and i recieved 2 popcorn tin, from my mom, dad, Lisa and Kayla :) we also recieved a nice kitchen towel and oven mit, from my mom and dad :) i gave Holly some hotwheels :)The kids were having so much fun playing with the toys Holly and i gave them :) they said, "Chris, Holly, everyone ,you all gave us awesome gifts!" aww! :) This is so nice, and sweet :) the kids got video game gift cards, toys, and lots more :) Lisa and Kayla were opening their gifts, and everyone was having such a sweet time opening gifts :) i gave Holly some candies, a notepad :) Holly had a very cool surprise for me! :) She gave me, a pack of 3, Christmas bubble lights! :) oh wow!!! :)

These are awesome, and bring back lots of very special memories for me! :) i remember when i was a kid, we all had some nice bubble lights like this on our Christmas tree each year :) i'm so thrilled! :) i recieved some soap, shaving razors, and a towel from my mom and dad, they gave Holly a towel too :) i gave Holly some peppermint oil soothing roll on, and also some soaps, lotions :) We were cherishing all of the moments, as we all opened our gifts :) a very special time, and lots of great Christmas memories being made :) We're all very happy and excited! :) We love our Christmas presents, and are enjoying them very much :)we all thanked eachother, for the very nice Christmas gifts :) A wonderful fun, spirited, and festive time, opening our gifts :)Holly and i are gonna open our NFL figurines packs, and also our football stickers and cards :) Holly and i are looking forward to enjoying our popcorn gift sets, watching movies :) the dvd set my mom and dad gave me ,has 7 movies! :) sweet!!! :)

Christmas Visits with family! :) Around late morning, we were getting ready to go to my sister Jenn's, and family's home :) we had some nice gifts and Christmas flowers for them :) We enjoyed a nice car ride to Jenn's and family's home :) we drove through our city, and got to see some Christmas lights, decorations, and also saw some ducks and seagulls by the marina :) We arrived at Jenn's and family's home, they welcomed us in :) We got to see their Christmas tree :) we wished eachother a Merry Christmas :) The kids were so excited, they were playing with toys, and had the home alone movie on :) We were enjoying visiting, and opened up gifts :) We gave Jenn ,Mike, Mikey, Hunter, and Carter some nice gifts, and they gave us some nice gifts :) They gave Holly and i, a nice tea set,fleece blankets, a cookbook, and recipe cards :) This is so nice, and very sweet of them :) We thanked them :) it was so nice, we were hanging out :) Mikey, and Hunter showed us their new games, they got a virtual game, it looks very neat :) we were at Jenn's and family's until about 1:30pm :) a wonderful Christmas time visit :) We thanked Jenn, Mike, and the kids for having us over :) We enjoyed the nice time together, and seeing their holiday home :) We enjoyed a ncie car ride home :)

This afternoon, my brother Bobby, Stacey, Ryan, Miranda, and Bristol came over :) it was so nice seeing them :) we all enjoyed visiting, and exchanging gifts :) We gave Bobby, and family some nice gifts, and they gave us some nice gifts too :) They gave Holly and i, a nice hickory farm's snacks gift set, and 2 dunkins gift cards :) It's very nice, and sweet of them :) We all thanked eachother :) We've been enjoying a very special time today, seeing family open gifts we gave them, and opening gifts they gave us :) my mom and dad got a nice ham cooking, with potatoes, and turnips, for Christmas dinner :) We love Christmas dinner, ham has always been one of our favorites :)Thank you angel friends, so very much for your wonderfully heart warming comments, hugs, and messages :) We're so happy,and thrilled everyone enjoyed our Christmas Eve baking friday adventure, pictures, and pictures of the snowfall :) it was lots of fun baking goodies yesterday :) We've been enjoying a very special time throughout the season, opening our Christmas mail :) We'd love to share about some wonderful Christmas treasures we recieved :)

Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Virginia, Oregon, and Washington! :) Awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming ,very sweet, and wonderful Christmas special :) my family,Holly, and i are so happy, and excited! :) We're enjoying a very special time, opening our Christmas mail, and displaying our wonderful Christmas cards, gifts, treasures, and enjoying the goodies and treats :) it's a very special joy to our hearts, getting to share with everyone about these wonderful gifts :) our dear, and lovely friends Judy (Ladybug7), Denny, Lori (Keepholdingon), Cheryl (Kneedeep), Fritz, and their family's sent us, wonderful Merry Christmas cards :) There's sweet festive Christmas scenes on the front of the cards :) inside the cards, Judy and Cheryl wrote us sweet notes, wishing us a Merry Christmas :) awww! :) We love our wonderful Christmas cards, and will always treasure them :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in and celebrate these very special times with you and your family's :) Judy, Lori, Cheryl, family's, my family, Holly, and i thank you all so very much! :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Sending lots and lots of love, happy friendships smiles, and Merry Christmas wishes across the miles, from our hearts and holiday home to yours :)

CHRISTMAS EVE PARTY!!! :) Rockin around the Christmas Tree into the Christmas Eve night!! :)woot!!! :) this is so much fun and spirited! :) We love our annual Christmas Eve party's! :) it's a very special tradition over the years :) for as long as i can remember, we've had a Christmas Eve party celebration :) when i was a kid, we always went to my grandma's, and over the years, continued the Christmas Eve party tradition here at home :) We love our wonderful Christmas cards displayed, Christmas trees and lights glowing, our Christmas treasures and decorations displayed, our holiday home, filled with festive Christmas spirit :) Lots of great memories being made :) We all were with eachother in spirit :) We prepared some nice Christmas platters, with foods, snacks, and drinks :) We enjoyed some of our nice, swiss colony treats, and goodies we recieved from friends :) summer sausages, cheeses, with honey mustard, crackers, chips, green olives, baking friday Christmas cookies, and candies :) We love snacking, especially on Christmas Eve :) our pets were so excited too :) Tiger was spending time with us, she had some of her treats, all our pets enjoyed treats :) Kayla and Taylynn put together some awesome gingerbread houses :) the beautiful wintery wonderland scenes outside with the Christmas eve snowfall, and our neighbor's Christmas lights glowing :)

my mom and Lisa had a special cool surprise for me! :) They gave me, a lottery tickets Christmas tree! :) aww! :) oh wow! :) This is awesome and so very nice and sweet of them! :) it's my first ever, lottery tickets Christmas tree! :) the tree is so nice! :) i thanked my mom and Lisa :) We were all enjoying snacks, and drinks :) lots of Christmas eve cheer! :) my dad got to come home from work early :) Alyssa and the kids came over :) Holly gave the kids some nice wooden ornaments she painted for them ,with superheroes theme :) The kids were so excited! :) Alyssa, family gave us some nice gifts :) a popcorn set, baking set, dip mixes, candy, peppermint candy cane spoons, and hot chocolate set :) it's very nice of them :) we were all hanging out, enjoying the evening and night :) it was awesome! :) a really sweet christmas eve,and was super cool to see the snowfall outside :) A Classy Christmasy scene :)

We're enjoying a very happy, blessed, and very Merry Christmas holiday, celebrating Christmas joy, spirit, excitement, with family, friends, and the wonderful spirit of the season :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and very heart happy, in great spirits :) We're enjoying a very special time, celebrating Christmas holiday with everyone :) We're cherishing and treasuring in all of the festive, excitement moments and all of the great memories being made :) We'll always cherish and treasure, the memories from Christmas 2021 :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for celebrating with us, and for making our Christmas holiday, and season very special and memorable :) You all give us the most wonderful gift, the very special gift of your friendship :) We love hearing about your Christmas holiday festivities, traditions, and sharing ours :) As we blossom into Christmas Evening, we're all settling into the evening ,enjoying foods, snacks, drinks, and sharing lots of smiles :) many wonderful heart smiles being shared, all throughout the day :) We have the football game on and Christmas movies too in my Christmas town :)

Our holiday home is glowing bright, with our wonderful cards, gifts, treasures, lights, trees, and decorations :) it's Christmas :) We've got some Christmas movies on, my Christmas Town glowing, and that wonderful warmth within our hearts :) We feel very blessed, thankful, and appreciative :) Tomorrow, we're gonna be reflecting back upon the wonderful Christmas holiday, season, gonna have some leftover foods, snacks, and watching football :) Holly and i are going to open some of our NFL football stickers packs, and packs of football cards :) There's many more special times to look forward to sharing in :) tonight, we're gonna watch a Christmas movie :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for your wonderful love, care, support, warm well wishes, prayers, and for bringing us very special wonderful joy :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group warm caring, happy Christmas friendship hug :) We wish everyone a wonderful Christmas evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's Christmas holiday :) We're enjoying a very special, wonderful, and Merry Christmas, with lots of joy, happiness, and peacefulness :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to share in ,and celebrate these very special times with everyone :) You're always in our hearts, and with us here in spirit, during these very special times :) We're cherishing and treasuring all of the great memories being made :) We had lots of fun opening Christmas presents :) We love Christmas, and the beautiful spirit of the holiday :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hi :) MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderfully happy, blessed, and very Merry Christmas :) We've been thinking of you all often today, and we're all with eachother in spirit :) Thank you angel friends, and your family's, for sharing your Christmas holiday's with us, and for making our Christmas holiday very special, and memorable :) We cherish and treasure the beautiful gift of your friendship :) We're so happy, and excited for all of these very special times, we get to share with you and your family's :) Wishing everyone continued joys, of a wonderful holiday season :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS SMILES!!! :) Wonderful moments of Christmas joy, being shared with family, friends, and the beautiful spirit of the season :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for making our Christmas very special, and memorable :)We're enjoying a very special, and wonderful, joyful time celebrating Christmas holiday with everyone :) We're cherishing and treasuring all of the moments, and great memories being made :) We feel very blessed, thankful, and appreciative :) You all are wonderful friends :) Thank you for sharing your holiday joy, and spirits with us :) Your joy, and spirits are a wonderful treasure, and gift that touches our hearts, and warms our hearts :) We're so happy, and excited to share christmas pictures with everyone :) We'll always treasure, and cherish all of the great memories made, from Christmas 2021 :) A very happy, blessed, joyful, and very Merry Christmas :) Happy Holidays, and a very Merry Christmas, from our very happy hearts, and holiday home to yours :)

Holly painted this beautiful Christmas ornament for me :) it's wonderfully sweet of her :) i'll always cherish and treasure it :) a very special thank you for Holly :) 

Holly painted this wonderful Christmas ornament for my mom and dad :) my mom and dad share stories with us, of when they first got married, and made homemade Christmas wreathes :) their stories, inspired Holly to make this beautiful ornament for them :) it's very wonderfully sweet of her :)  

The kids were having so much fun opening gifts this morning :) 

Christmas morning :) Garden friend cat is in the picture :) 

Holly and i each got these nice NFL figurines tins :) i gave Holly one, and my mom and dad gave me one :) These are super cool and fun to collect :) We're so happy and excited to see which figurines we get in the mystery packs! :)

my Christmas bubble lights, that Holly gave me! :) These are my all time favorite lights :) They bring back lots of very special memories for me :) we use too have a string of these when i was a kid, and i remember being so excited to see them glowing :) i put my bubble lights in the lights this afternoon :) they're glowing bright! :) i love them!!! :)

Christmas Lottery tickets Tree! :) my mom and Lisa surprised me with this awesome, lottery tickets Christmas tree! :) it's so nice, and sweet of them :) it's my first ever lottery tickets tree :) i'm going to display this nice tree in my Christmas town each year! :) i'll add decorations to it :) it's so nice, and a great gift :)

Jenn's, Mike, Mikey's, Hunter's, and Carter's Christmas tree :)

Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Virginia, Washington, and Oregon! :) awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming, and very Christmas special :) my family, Holly,and i love our wonderful Merry Christmas cards, and will always cherish and treasure them :) We're enjoying a very special time, opening our Christmas mail, and displaying our wonderful cards, gifts, and treasures :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) You all have made our Christmas, very special, and memorable :) A wonderful Christmas, we'll forever remember :) Happy Christmas smiles from our hearts and holiday home to yours :)

Thank you so very much, Judy (Ladybug7), Denny, and family! :)

Thank you so very much, Lori (Keepholdingon), and family! :)

Thank you so very much, Knee (Kneedeep), Fritz, and family! :)

Christmas Town Greetings! :) it's Christmas Holiday, in Christmas Town! :) my Christmas town is glowing bright, in all of it's Christmas glory :) i love my Christmas town,and sharing it with everyone :) i'm so happy, and thrilled that everyone's been enjoying my Christmas town throughout the season :) It brings my heart a lot of very special joy, and i'm so delighted it's brought everyone lots of joy through the season :) i'll be keeping my Christmas town up until at least new year's :) it looks so nice,and is a wonderful display :) it's Christmas day :)

Hi angel friends :) Wonderfulday! :) i'll be sharing lots more pictures tomorrow, including pictures of our Christmas gifts, goodies, and treasures :)