Christmas things

This Christmas stocking was made by a dear friend of grandma Nogles.
It's about 3 feet long and hold a LOT of goodies. I never have filled it all the way. :)
It is pretty amazing and a LOT of time went into putting each one of those
sequence on. This was all done by hand.

I decided to put up our tree again this year. First time we have put it up in about
8 years. (Since Angel our dog, was a puppy). Hopefully she will leave it alone and not
eat the ornaments. :) It was fun to put each ornament on and remember who made it
or gave it to me. A lot of them went WAY back--about 37 to 40 years ago. AMAZING.
My mom had made some of the ornaments, and there are other ornaments that friends
from Albuquerque made for me, many moons ago. It was so fun to bring back the
memories of those people.

I was trying to get this without a flash. It turned out pretty good, considering
who decorated it and took it. :)

Our Nativity set that we've had for about 20 years. I hope I got the appropriate people in
the right place. This is just my version of how I picture the manger where Jesus was born.
Pretty amazing when you think about it.
I remember how I felt after I had Vaughn, Dec. 14th , almost 35 years ago. I went to church that next
Sunday and cried during most of the service. I just kept thinking of Mary and what she must have
felt like.