Decorating for Christmas Already

Today was sunny and near 70 degrees so we took advantage of the beautiful, unseasonable weather to get our outdoor Christmas decorating out of the way. It felt great to have a very productive day... first time in months!

I'm usually outdoors putting up Christmas decorations in mid-December... in weather in the 30s... raining... soaked and freezing so badly that my fingers will no longer move. This year we got lucky!

They say we have about a foot of snow arriving tomorrow but I'll believe it when I see it. Regardless, the outside of the house is ready for the holidays.

We even managed to get a head start on indoors. We don't plan to get all of the indoor stuff done this weekend but we will be close!

We even put about 1400 lights on that tall, neatly trimmed tree in the background...  

We've been on a roll with decorating and needed to pull out all the storage bins since they weren't labeled by "indoor decorations" and "outdoor decorations" so we continued with some of the indoor decorating...  all that is currently on the tree now is lights... ornaments are next.... 

...perhaps even a few beverages are in order...