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Believe. ” To believe in the wonder of the season is to see through the eyes of the heart.”~Flavia
From our house to yours, may your holidays be wrapped in wonder and love.
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As I mentioned last week we were going to be treated to a Lighted Golf Cart Parade in my community by several neighbors that have their own golf carts.
It was a small but festive parade with just 6 golf carts. Myself and my neighbors waited outside in the cold for the parade to get to our end of the street. It was dark by the time they arrived. Here are a few images of the parade.
Here they come!
…and quick as wink they were gone.
It was fun, and I hope they do it again next year!
I hope you’re all enjoying the Holiday lights and spirit of Christmas, and having a good week!
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In December the Nevada State Railroad Museum located in Carson City, NV rolls out N°25 to drive The Santa Train.
You know when I went to the Railroad Museum before she wasn’t out that time. click here to see that post. I’ve wanted to get back up here to see the Steamie since.
Just as I did before I arrived early hoping to see the crew rolling her out of the garage, but I was a wee bit late she was already out and building pressure. N°25 was built in 1905 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. She’s a 78-ton 10-wheeler. She hauled both passenger and freight cars between Carson, Virginia City, and Reno from 1911 to 1947.
Now she runs on special days throughout the year.
One of the special events she’s rolled out for is during December when she’s The Santa Train which is N°25, a passenger car, and a red caboose. Passengers come for a ride around the station and Santa Claus is on the train to talk to the children, and I hear he passes out candy canes to everyone.
Here she is at the station getting some water, and passengers.
I spy Santa! He’s with the Conductor, Engineer, the Brakemen, and some Elves disguised as cowboys. 😉
Here comes THE SANTA TRAIN!! TOOT! TOOT!
I don’t know if I’ll be posting much anymore this year things are going to get busy pretty quick. Big Baby Boy and The Crosscourt Kitty🐈 are arriving soon for the Holidays and #1 Grandson is coming to visit too!
There’ll be kids jingle belling, holiday greetings, gay happy meetings, and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago! It really is the most wonderful time of the year!
In case I don’t get another chance to let me wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year!! xx
I’m chugging out…TOOOOT! TOOT! 😍
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I went back to my archives to find a Christmasy image to share this week because even though I’ve been taking photos this month none are really Christmasy- back in 2010 on my way out of town for a photo shoot a friend and I stopped downtown to catch a little bit of the Christmas Parade and who should strut by? Elvis!
I can’t remember which Christmas song he was singing. I wish I had made some notes.
So, I went to YouTube to see if anyone had posted the parade and caught him crooning this number…well someone did post about him at the Parade! Turns out he’s Rick Torres a popular Elvis impersonator here in the Bay Area and he won the 2010 Holiday Day Parade trophy that year! Man, I love YouTube!
Since Elvis wasn’t singing in that clip so here’s some Top Christmas Songs sung by Elvis to help us keep the spirit of the season Merry and Bright.
From my house to yours, Wishing all of you that celebrate it a Rockin Merry Christmas!
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I just wanted to take a moment to say MERRY CHRISTMAS! to all of you who celebrate it. I hope your holiday is wonderful, and filled with love, and lots of laughter.
Having a little one in the house has given me an opportunity to watch a favorite Holiday movie. Frosty the Snowman. I enjoy this movie and song so much I had to add the ornament to tree.
So, what’s going on at my house besides watching the old Christmas animated movies?
I’ve shared with some of you about my tradition of putting my collection of stuffed bears, and animals around the tree as soon as the tree goes up in December. Part of that tradition is that the bears and animals leave sometime before Christmas. They leave a note on the tree telling us that Santa really needed their help to get all the final things ready for his most important flight of the year.
I woke up yesterday morning and they were gone. The note was on the tree saying they’d gone to the North Pole to help Santa Claus and Elves make ready for Christmas. They thanked us for understanding, and assured us they’d be home soon, and signed their note with lots of ♥ and paw prints. 🙂
#1 Grandson who just turned 5 this week is a bit concerned about their departure and is anxiously waiting for Santa and the Bears, and other animals to return. He is worried about the Bear Cookie Jar that went too. He’s worried it might get broken. I hope it doesn’t, but I’m sure Santa can fix him if it were to get broken. 🙂
Big Baby Boy, and the Dark Haired Beauty flew in last night. We’re all excited to have them home for Christmas. Dark Haired Beauty is the reigning 2016 champion of the game Mexican Train a family favorite. We’ll see if she can be unseated this year.
Baby Girl’s sofa, Coffee, and end tables arrived yesterday. She’s very relieved that we all won’t be sitting on the floor while she hosts her very first Christmas in her very first apartment.
Our new house has a renter. I’ve still got mixed feelings about that as I’d love to be living there; we can’t right now, but things are lining up.
While I haven’t been too chatty with my posts this year good things are happening here. He-Man and I are beaming with joy, and feel very blessed for it’s been a really great year so far. (knocking on wood!) 🙂
I’ll be back next week with Wordless Wednesday, but will be on a wee break til then spending time with my children, and Grandson.
If you don’t celebrate Christmas I hope you find some delight in the Holiday joy, lights, decorations, and enjoy a day off. 🙂
MERRY CHRISTMAS! xx
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Laura Macky started a post that invited everyone to post something they love about Christmas and I decided to play along.
One of my favorite things about Christmas in addition to the presents are the decorations. I love Santa Claus, trains, the Christmas Tree, lights and Nutcrackers.
Here’s an image of my very first Nutcracker, but I only have a few. I usually set this one and my others on my mantle.
What do you love about Christmas?
To find all the other images shared on Laura’s post click here;
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Our #1 Grandson will turn 4 just before Christmas! I can’t believe how fast he’s grown!
His favorite Halloween character is Jack Skellington from the movie Nightmare Before Christmas. He thinks skeletons are the neatest goulie on Halloween.
He’s chosen a Nightmare Before Christmas theme for his Birthday. He was so happy to find a Jack Skellington Christmas ornament, and cap while shopping recently.
Here he is with both the cap and ornament in our Christmastown. 🙂
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