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1. Baby’s First Christmas
2. A Giant Tree Made of Legos
3. Just Laugh’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
4. Frozen Christmas Lights
5. Holiday Snackses!
6. And a Christmas Tree for Baby, Too!
7. So Much to Do, So Little Time…
8. Caroling with Captain Picard & The Avengers
9. A Neighborhood of Dancing Lights
10. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
11. Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights!!!
12. Warm Hugs from Northern Michigan…
13. Family Photos
14. The Holidays are Swell!
15. Bullshit.
16. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party
17. More Disney Christmas!!!
18. Baby’s First Christmas, Ornament Edition
19. 8-Bit Cinema: A Christmas Story
20. Holiday Exhaustion
21. Exterior Decorating
22. The Sevener Family Christmas Card
23. Baby Meets Santa Claus
24. Just Laugh Holiday Humor

Bonus Posts:

• Cookies for Santa
• Cleo’s New Hat
• Legos & Son
• Santa’s Workshop Joins the Village!

I didn’t get a chance to wrap things up yesterday between staying up until 4:30am helping Santa and then all of the wonderful Christmas Day festivities to follow, but needless to say it was a pretty great – albeit fast – holiday season!!!

But I’ll tell you, it was so much fun watching Christopher react to everything new, from the lights to the characters over at Disney to of course his extended family and the veritable smorgasbord of presents that he found himself traversing around the Christmas tree come yesterday. As a side note, our little guy also just so happened to turn nine months old on Christmas Day, so it’s kind of crazy not only to think that we’ll be celebrating his first birthday here in only three months now, but also that next year we’ll be doing this all over again with a much larger baby boy who by then will be walking and talking when it comes time to celebrate this glorious season once more in 2015! 😯

Happy Christmas to all, and may your new year be as exciting and amazing as I have little doubt mine is going to be…

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Tonight we spent a few hours at Lowry Park Zoo here in Tampa for their evening Christmas festivities, with one of the more significant features being Christopher meeting jolly, old St. Nick for the first time!

He did … ok … but wasn’t exactly all smiles like he usually is, and we even got a bit of crying lip just when we decided that it was time to go.

For what it’s worth, he was admittedly a bit indifferent when he first met Santa Goofy a couple of weeks ago, too… 😛

You have no idea how hard it was to pick just ten photos for this year’s card!

…now to address and mail forty of these little beauties… 🙁

The photo hardly does our house’s glow justice, as we’ve heard several accounts of people stopping outside of the house to check out our lights from the sidewalk! So yeah – we’ve officially become that house now. 😛

I still consider this to be sort of phase 1 of our lights, though – we spent a bunch of money swapping out a good number of them for LEDs this year after having the bulk die out last year, and the new programmable ones that run along both the edge of the roof and around the palm to the far left have been pretty fun to change colors throughout the month, but I still feel that the yard itself needs work … partially due to the ginormous, stupid oak tree that currently dominates the center of the yard.

Hopefully between now and next Christmas we’ll be able to get that ugly beast removed, which will open up the entire yard to new possibilities! Still, a valiant effort considering that I didn’t really do much of anything last year. It’s probably safe to say that we won the neighborhood as far as light displays, though most of our neighbors are boring and didn’t really do anything, so they’re not the ones I’m comparing us to anyways.

Work in progress!!!