Day 339...Christmas Eve With Mom :)

Day 339

Christmas is here once again!
What a special, beautiful time of year.

My Mom loves Christmas! 

I love you, Momma!

All the kids kind of showed up at different times this year throughout the day.

Wish we could've all been there together but 

 Kaley, Abby and Birdie showed up to see their Grandma while Mark and I were there!

 Kaley, Mom (Thelma) and Abby

♥ Me and my sweet Momma! ♥

Day 338...A Haunted Christmas

Day 338

So, here it is!

The eerie, vacant and abandoned old home 

that I photographed much earlier in my 365 day challenge.

As I mentioned in that first post, 

it always has a tree in the window during the Christmas season.
Creeeepy!
I thought it wasn't going to happen this year though.
The tree finally just appeared this week.

And, this is the first year the tree has been in the upstairs window.

The old, gnarly cedar tree in the front yard has now been taken down, too.

I loved that old tree. It just added to the haunted feel!

Here's my first photo from several months back on Day 41, 2/29/12

Day 337...The Tree (again)

Day 337

Still trying to get a nice shot of the tree!

Hmmm, The tree definitely needed more ornaments...

and I'm thinking those useless things we call "bows"

on my packages may've also made the photo more attractive.

Oh well, I don't do bows.

The cheap ones aren't attractive and therefore not worth it.

And making pretty bows is too much work!

I'm lucky to get everything wrapped!!! :)

Day 336...Long. Drive. Home.

Day 336

Today,  while driving home to Liberty from Overland Park,
I saw things that I usually never notice while making this drive.

That's because normally I would be driving fast on the highway,

(going the speed limit, of course,) and paying attention to all the speeding traffic,

which wouldn't allow for much "sightseeing," so to speak.

Well, not today!

To clarify, yes, I was paying attention but you can really see quite a bit 

while rolling along at racing speeds of 5 to 10 mph.

I think everyone in the KC metro area was off work early and out on the roads.

I didn't see one accident that should have caused such a back up in traffic.

It was awful.

Driving at such slow speeds and sometimes even at a stop,

I was able to take this pic with my cell phone .

A very nice sight to see such a pretty sunset behind me while headed North on I-35.

An hour and a half after pulling away from the salon in Overland Park

I finally arrived home.

Day 335...Grateful Birdies

Day 335

I'm so glad we finally got around to purchasing a bird bath defroster.

We have so many more birds than I've ever seen before in the winter.

They literally just sit there and drink, and drink, and drink some more.

It makes me sad to think they can't find water.

I hope they tell all their "facebook friends"... :)

Day 334...Batch #4?

Day 334

Or maybe it's #5 

I've lost count already!

Been up to my elbows in powdered sugar these days!

Day 333...Favorites!

Day 333

♪ ...these are a few of my favorite things... ♪

Along with whiskers on kittens and

all that other good stuff!

:)

OH...by the way...this is the best Egg Nog I've ever had!!!

Why am I not surprised!? :)