We enjoyed the  tunnel of  hooped lights at this Christmas holiday display over the weekend. 
After passing through the tunnel,  you enter many  holiday scenes  one more beautiful than the other.  Then we went in town  and saw a wonderful display put on by one of the doctors in town.  It filled his  front yard and around the sides of his house.  As you can  see it was a real  beautiful gift to the community that he put up every year just for the community to enjoy.

On Monday  I spent all day in the kitchen  making cookies to give  away.  I think the new cookie press I got last week worked pretty good.   It was a long process of decorating after they all cool but well worth it .  They turned out real pretty I think.  And they taste good too!!!!

Monday was a rainy, cold day.  We decided to  hang our new drapes in the family room.  This will cut the draft from the  sliding glass doors come February and cold days here.  Hubby had to do some special handy work to get all the drapes up.  We have a vertical blind, a  regular  long drape and the valance over all of it.  He put on his thinking cap and came up with a plan that works.  Everything is up and looking good.

Tuesday was the nativity  debute.  I had been painting for a couple of  week to get it done for Christmas.  We  set up the lighting and then  up went the painted figures.  This is just  the first of the main charaters.  There are camels and wisemen, donkeys and a cow. Plus more lambs and a dummer boy yet to be painted.  Next year  maybe I will get the rest of the set done.  This is it for this year.  Merry Christmas!!

Also added a  couple of children by our little trees.  Just for cuteness!