it's truly december!

we're finally getting into the christmas spirit at my house!

today i got to see santa at hy-vee.  santa and mrs. claus were very adament about getting to take my picture.  it's the first time i've ever sat on santa's knee.  it was kinda funny, in a slightly i'm-weirded-out way.  but he did say he'd bring me a job for christmas, which would be really nice.

then, stephanie and i decided it was time to start getting the christmas decorations out.  (we're in charge this year, i guess.)  we only had one strand of outdoor lights that's about thirty years old, so we went to wal-mart to get some more, and as we were finishing hanging them, dad came back with four more.  so we went a little crazy with them.  plus, we have stephanie's huge "noel" candle that we put out too.  we were literally only one of two houses on our block that didn't have some kind of decoration out, now we are the only ones on the block with any lights that are not white.

but then, we don't have tacky moving deer in our yard, either.