Home for the Holidays

We're back. The past month has been exhausting. But... the craziness is almost over. We have just one school week left before a two week break. We can't wait!! Our biggest event (and main reason for exhaustion) was this afternoon... a Holiday House Tour benefiting the Elementary PTO in our school district. We were thrilled Joe's Place was part of the tour... but I don't think we were quite prepared for the amount of work it would take (you would think we would be used to this kind of thing by now). Anyway, it's over and our house looks beautiful. We probably had about 100 people through the house today. We had all 3 floors of the house open for viewing... but I just took pictures of the decorations outside and on the main level. The reason our house looks like it does is because of Debbi (she did the indoor decorating) from the school district and our friend Joan (she's the main reason our yard and front porch looks the way it does) from church. Here are the pictures...