Days 4 & 5 of the Christmas Photo Challenge

Today's item is "Presents wrapped under the tree".   YS needed to get another pair of black slacks and a few other things, so CH, YS, & I headed out to town.  I hadn't bought the first present when we left, so I took my camera along "just in case".  We went to Arby's for lunch, and here's what I saw:

YS got what he needed, and we headed home.  I found something for each of the boys, and CH bought something that I had been looking for since we left London.  I wrapped the boys' purchases, and mine, then put them under our tree:

A few people commented that they wanted to see our tree.  So....here it is:

YS did a pretty decent job, especially since it was his first time.  I put some of  the ornaments on, but decided not to stress out and put all of them on.  I also made a couple of decorations that I had seen in some different places:

Day 5 is "something warm and tasty".  What else would I have besides something from Starbucks?

Starbucks is having their "12 Days of Gifting" with a special each day.  Friday was a special on the 1 lb. bag of Christmas Blend Coffee.  Who knew that if you used your gold card you got a free tall drink of your choice when you bought a bag of coffee?  Sunday was a special on a mug; I chose the white one in the picture.  The DC mug was a gift last year from my SIL.
I used part of my gift card for today's purchase.  My drink of choice today was a Gingerbread Latte, my usual during Christmas.
As I was taking a picture of the few gifts we have under the tree, I had to snap a picture of Ally, my little princess:

Come on,  y'all!  It's not to late to join Susan and her photo challenge!

O Tannenbaum

Today's picture prompt from Susan is "THE Christmas Tree".  As of right this minute, YS (God love him) is putting up the tree.  So, I took a couple of pictures of trees that I saw today.  YS participated in Tuba Christmas, then we went to the big town for lunch and to go to a new sporting goods store.  When we were leaving from lunch we saw a tree lot:

 And, someone had just bought their tree(s):

The Tuba Christmas Participants played this song:
(the audio isn't that great because I used my cheapo camera to video it!)




After going to Susan's to link up, I saw the title for her post and had to laugh...we have the same title again! I promise I didn't copy her today!

Makin' a List

I thought I was being clever with my post title, until I went over the Susan's blog and saw her title, which is exactly the same.  No, I will not change it, and yes, that's probably where I got the idea!
Susan has provided a list of 25 items to find and submit a picture.  I have a cheap, cheap, cheap point & shoot, so don't use not having a decent camera as an excuse not to play along! 
Today's item:  "A List".  I'm pretty organized at work, but I don't really make lists.  The only list I usually make is my grocery list.  I use my calendar to make notes of things I need to do, but I just don't make lists.
I looked around school, and didn't see any hanging on the walls.  I talked to a kindergarten teacher, and she said they don't do lists for Santa anymore since the paper has stopped printing them.  What to do?  I went to the librarian and asked if she had any lists.  She gave me the funniest look; I told her I thought I'd just throw it out there and see what she came up with.  She had plenty of lists, but none pertaining to Christmas.  So, she pulled up a list of Christmas books on the computer:

That's not cheating, is it?  :)
Come join in the madness...you know you want to!  Link up with Susan at This Day!