After our arborvitaes outgrew our few strands of outdoor Christmas lights, we gave up on decorating outdoors for Christmas. Ahh, but three-year-olds are persistent & you wouldn’t believe the amount of joy that this small grouping of lights, trees, & one reindeer has brought to her.
Our palm tree is really special to us & we’ve marveled at how quickly it has grown. It is 6 ½ years old… the same number of years that we’ve lived at this address. Incorporating it into our holiday display has been a lot of fun. Ellie likes to visit her little reindeer in the evening & thanks to him, she is no longer afraid to go outside when it’s dark.
Next year, we plan to add MORE lights & maybe even MORE reindeer. Personally, I think we need a whole team of reindeer… 11 of them to be exact. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Rudolph, plus two more: one to play center & one animated reindeer to quarterback. Wouldn’t Coach be surprised? {No, honey… I didn’t buy 10 reindeer at Kmart. Must be a typo!}
We have a large front porch that we also decorated for the season. I spent a portion of our $100 budget on items that would add some cheer during the daylight hours, too.
And how about that elf? It is {by far} Ellie’s favorite Christmas decoration. It’s official product name is “porch greeter” but in our house she serves as surrogate sister. She has accompanied us to the grocery store, the library, been buckled into the backseat of the car, & been pushed around the neighborhood in a stroller. Thanks to this cheerful little sprite, many happy memories are being made this Christmas.
This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias. All opinions are my own. #Cbias
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Ellie! Get out of town! I love that Elf and Reindeer too!!!! Great job you and Mommy did on the house!!!