The other night our caseworker came and did our home visit for adoption. Everything went great and we are one step closer to being approved, hopefully by the middle of January. After she left I decided to take a few pictures, because everything was clean and in it's proper place. I love this time of year and how all of the lights can make your house so magical. I wish I could keep it like this for more than just one month. I love decorating my home for Christmas so we actually put up two trees. An artificial one upstairs and a real one downstairs.
This is the tree that we have upstairs. My family room upstairs is kind of small, so I had a hard time finding a place to put it. Notice the cute little present sitting under the tree. Dora loves to lay under it and look out the window.
Here's Jason attempting to get the real tree in the stand. We thought we had it secure, but we were wrong. In the middle of the night it tipped over and spilled all of the water out of the stand. I was afraid that it was going to dry out because it sat without water all night, but so far so good. 
This is Jason's Christmas Village. That was one of his favorite memories as a child, setting up the village. So I have made it a tradition that each year for his birthday I buy him a new piece to go with his village.
