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| "Bernard" our holiday polar bear |
Someone asked recently if Suzanne enjoys decorating for the holidays. The answer is obvious to anyone who has ever visited our home during the holiday season. This year her Arizona friend Lenore will surpass her with a total of 14 Christmas trees. That's probably only because we had to sell a bunch of our Christmas things in order to fit in the 20 foot container we brought to Ecuador. We also won't have a decorated front yard and a front driveway lined with lighted trees. Heck, we even decorated our 9 foot Saguaro cactus when we lived in Arizona!
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| Suzanne's Santa collection is always out for the holidays! |
OK, so it's been busy in the Yazell household the past several days...here's a pictorial review of just some of what we've been putting together:
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| Suzanne collected these Anri nativity figures as a child. It has been an important part of our holiday decorations each and every Christmas season. |
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| Nearly every nook has something for the holiday on display! |
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| This is Holly, one of our special Christmas bears |
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| Rusty is one of our regular bears. He gets to wear a special headband just for the holiday occasion! |
Christmas tress, of course, are important, but we don't have as many this year. Here's a look at what we're doing in Ecuador:
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| Our tabletop bear tree in the upstairs family sala. |
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| Our back patio is the home of our Latin America tree. |
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| Our Snoopy tree is in the den. |
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| Roger, of course, had to have a special wine tree. The cork ornaments are actual corks taken from some of his favorite wines |
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| Roger's wine bar also features a "Wine Santa" bringing gifts of good wine to all good boys and girls! (provided, of course, that they are of legal drinking age!) |
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| Our musical Snoopy, decked out in his holiday shirt, stands guard next to the "Peanuts tree". |
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| Back in Arizona, this tree was our "secondary tree" The 10 ft tree we had in Arizona would not fit here, so this has become our main living room tree...it just did fit! |
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| Suzanne loves angels and you'll always find some in our house all year around. However, there has to be a special one just for the holidays and here she is! |
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| There's no longer a tree for our antique ornaments so Suzanne set some display containers for them at a few points in the house. |
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| We even have a "Christmas Cheerleader" sure to help get our guests in the holiday spirit. |
O.K. It's finally time for the special story of the Yazell family "Christmas Chicken"! During one of our many trips to Mexico, Suzanne fell in love with a brightly colored, red and green, paper mache rooster with an equally colorful sombrero. She purchased it, brought it home to Arizona and declared that it would a perfect addition next to our patio tree which featured ornaments from the desert southwest, Mexico and other Latin American countries. Roger immediately dubbed this work of art, "our Christmas Chicken".
Anyway, when the Christmas Chicken comes out, you know the holiday season has officially begun at the Yazell household!
Cock-a-doodle-ho-ho-ho...happy holidays everybody!
Thanks for the shout out. By the time we were done decorating (and buying more decorations), we wound up with 16 trees. Mike numbered them for our Open House. We're expecting 60 people or so.
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