Let the decorating begin...

As many of you all know, I am a decorating fanatic! I love to decorate, especially for Christmas! This year I was kind of bummed because I had to leave a lot of my stuff at home. Just ask my roommates how chaotic it was when I brought only some of my stuff to our apartment one year...haha Winter Wonderland!! So when I was at bible study yesterday they were looking for volunteers to help decorate the church's Christmas tree. I of course volunteered and shared my passion of Christmas with all my old lady bible study friends. Well La Rue (you pronounce it just like you see "La-Roo") began telling me about her passion for Christmas. I couldn't believe there was someone out there who loved to decorate just as much as I did!! She proceeded to tell me that she easily has over 100 boxes of Christmas stuff and it takes her weeks to decorate. So she invited me over to help her! I was so excited!

So here she is in all her glory!! Ready to get the day started!

I got over to her beautiful house on Key Colony Beach around 10 am and didn't leave until about 4! Here are a few pictures of the projects I helped with..


Lights all around the banister and down the stairs...then wrapped garland around all the lights...

made a cute little village out of the Kurt Adler Collection...these were sooo cute!

made another village that was so big, I had to make it into an "L" shape! These were awesome too. We had the "outskirts" with the barn and animals, then the city with town hall and all that good stuff, then the waterfront homes with light houses and boats and even a calm market! Soo awesome!

and finally helped unpack over 20 boxes at least! This is just part of the stuff....this Christmas lady has everything you could imagine Christmas.

This is just a bar they have in their "Florida Room" that I thought was so cute. Of course its not normally covered with Santas and reindeer, but it was pretty awesome.

This is La Rue's dog, Patrick. You can't really see where his head or tail is but he looks like a big mop. And yes I asked her why her MALE dog had bows in his hair and she said because the groomer put them in there...poor Patrick. He didn't help much with the decorating though...he pretty much just stayed here in his chair.

So we didn't get anywhere near finishing, but she is having a Christmas party in December so I'll def. have to try and go to that so I can see everything finished. Besides me having a Christmas explosion, things have been pretty quiet around here. Its been such beautiful weather, I have opened the windows. Bear and Trigger seem to both really enjoy this...

haha...they love looking at everything going on outside.

I have had to go into work both of my days off for seminars. They are from 8-9 and then 5:30-7:30. Even though I have had to go in on my days off, its been worth it. We have these guys speaking about training and how to be better trainers. It's really interesting and they have some awesome stories. There are two of them and together they have over 50 years experience in the training business. They are pretty smart and know what they are talking about so its cool to get some pointers from some pretty high up guys.

Catherine gave me some sunflowers so I took them home and put them right in the middle of the table. We never have any plants around so I was excited to have some beautification around the house. Well Bear decided he liked them too so I took these shots of him with the flowers...he looks so cute with them because he is orange and he looks great next to the flowers.

Also, Trigger's new leash and collar came in!! The leash we have for him now is so short, its kind of hard to walk him on because there isn't much room for any give in the leash. So I ordered him a new set off line and it just got here. He looks so handsome in it!

I know this one you can't see the collar but he just looked so cute and happy, I had to share it!

only 6 more days until my family gets here for Thanksgiving!!! We have so many awesome plans and I can't wait to share how their visit goes! Well I have to go get ready for another seminar, but hope everyone has a great Wednesday night! Tyler and I are looking forward to "Revenge" being back on tonight!! 10 pm on ABC! wahoo!