Christmas / New Year's

Christmas was in California this year, and we had SO much fun!!  It was so great to see everyone, and to hang with family and friends.  The trip flew by WAYYYYYY too quickly though, and I miss everyone so much already!  I can't believe our trip is over, and I'm going to have to plan another trip out soon.  It was a truly amazing Christmas.

I didn't take any pictures (whoops!) in California aside from our amazing trip to Disneyland (see previous post for those pictures), but I did take a lot of pictures of our house in PA all decorated for Christmas!  So here's some pictures of some of our decorations around our house:

Here's our house from our driveway! It isn't fully night, so you can't see the lights super well, but you get a little glimpse of them! 

Here's an up-close picture of our two windows over our garage!  The blow-mold on the left is a candle that says Noel, and the one on the right is a Santa. 

Here's a light we have in our window by our front door!  i think this decoration is meant for your lawn, but we like to keep it indoors because the weather is usually so gross in December.

Our tree! I loooove our tree skirt that my parents got for us years ago.  It's SO my style! 

Here's a closer view of the top of our tree!  We have a cool multi-colored star, and Bumble.

Here's Guinness enjoying our tree!  The tree is where we usually keep his crate, and he loooves to nap in his crate.  We moved it over to the other side of the room, so it always takes him a few days to get used to the new crate location! 

Here's our fireplace mantle! And I put all of the Christmas cards we receive in the art over the fireplace. It's like this metal tree thing, and it's kinda perfect for holding cards! 

Here's a ceramic tree that I painted a few years ago! 

And this is one of our tables in our dining room. We have another that has all of our Christmas mugs and Christmas beer glasses and wine glasses, but I forgot to take a pic of those!  

For New Year's Eve, Kevin and I just hung out at home with Guinness and we relaxed.  I still wasn't feeling 100% (I'd caught a terrible cold as soon as we got back from CA), so relaxing sounded perfect for New Year's Eve.  On New Year's Day, I thought I felt good enough to head into the city to see the Mummer's Parade.  We had sooo much fun hanging out for the Mummer's Parade, and we were able to meet up with Kevin's sisters Mo and Mook and Mook's boyfriend (Ethan).  It was a cooooold day though, so it probably wasn't very smart of me to go hang out!  By that night when we got home, I was feeling sooo much worse and it definitely set me back from getting better! 

Here's a pic of Kevin, me, Mo, Mook, and Ethan at the parade! 

Here's a cool pterodactyl that was in the parade! And that's beautiful City Hall in the background. 

Here's two people that dressed as construction cones!  Amaaazing costume idea. 

 

This was an amazing float in the parade that had some AWESOME live music!  And there were drag queens walking along with the float, and they were soooo fun and were really interacting with the crowd.