Christmas at my childhood house...

This Christmas my brother decided to decorate his house with all of our childhood decorations. He did this because he is so excited to become an uncle and he knew that I would love to see all of the decorations that were so important to our Christmases. I was very touched by this; it really made this Christmas very special.

Obviously this is the tree. You can't really see them too well but the bigger ornaments were hand painted by my mom and her sister for my first Christmas.

The Santa train was also painted by my mom and aunt, and it has been in our home for nearly every Christmas.
The candy cane and stockings were the last part of the set. The stockings are my favorite part. They have our names painted on them. It's hard to see, but the picture has Santa and Rudolph in a hot air balloon. This has been and always will be my favorite Christmas decoration.



These pictures have nothing to do with my childhood decorations. I just wanted to take a picture of the outside of his house. The first one was taken with the flash on so you can see how crazy the snow was. I guess we really got a white Christmas. The second one was taken two seconds later without the flash. The lights were pretty cool, but the bushes are the best part: My brother trimmed them into little box shapes and then wrapped them with a bow! They looked so cool.