Retro Nativity Set

This year we have a place to put out this neat retro-styled Nativity Set, and Daddy was pretty happy to see it set up by the front door, so much that he took a picture really quickly.  We did just a bit more decorating, but you should see the house nearly across the street from us, all decked out with lights inside and out.  It's beautiful!  We'll hopefully get ours up to Elfcom 5 within the next few days, but we're pretty proud of our inside accomplishments for the time being, with four trees and extra decorations up.  Besides, we still need to pack up some of the Thanksgiving decorations already.  I can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone already!

Today we did leave the house for a while.  We were doing a bit of Christmas shopping here and there, and also getting some candy canes for Madison's candy cane chain for December.  Each yet she makes this, taking one candy cane off each morning until there's none left, and when that happens, there's plenty more candy around because it's Christmas!

But while we were out, we went to see the new movie that just came out, "Wreck-it Ralph 2:  Ralph Breaks the Internet."  There was a good crowd of people there to see the movie, but nevertheless, we got our usual seats in the back, and our usual tub of popcorn.

It was a decent movie, although the three of us liked the original the best.  This one had a few great moments in the middle with memes and a musical number, but otherwise, we felt the writing and story were much better for the first one.  Again, it was still fun to watch and we enjoyed our time out at the movies.  It seems we've been at the theater a lot to see movies - we might be back later this month to see a Spider-man movie and another Mary Poppins movie.  We've also got plenty of other usual Christmas excursions to head off to see, including hopefully another trip down to the beach around New Year's Day.  We'll see how that goes, but it will be fun, and we'll savor each day.  This season goes by so fast each year, and every day is so packed with fun, with Christmas cards and cookies and gingerbread houses and lights and Christmas movies and Krampus and Elf on the Shelf and Advent Calendars and Stockings and... well, you get the idea.  It's the most wonderful time of the year!