Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand

I stole that title from one of Relient K's Christmas albums - which I highly recommend.  Actually, I highly recommend any of Relient K's albums.

Thanks to some good advice from my friend Michael, I've been experimenting with taking pictures of my Christmas tree.  I'm sure this is only the first of several posts that I will have with various pictures of my Christmas tree.  Well, here it is.  Yes, there is one lonesome present under the tree.  That is for my nephew, Daniel. 

Here's a picture of our mantle complete with Sadie & Greta's stockings.  Greta gets 2 stockings...for now.

I'll post the rest of our Christmas decorations soon.  In the meantime, here is one of my very favorite Christmas ornaments...

You guessed it.  It's Charlie Brown.  It wouldn't feel like Christmas without the Peanuts gang!  OK...now I have to run to the first of 3 Christmas programs at our church.  Tonight it's the youth group's turn.