A Giveaway!

Today is a little different on here.  I am in the Christmas mood!  Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving and ate more than any human should.

Today we went and got our tree.  We searched until we found the one proclaimed by all five of us to be "the perfect tree."

It really is a beauty.  More pictures on that to come later.  You may not know this but I like to give my Honey a hard time.  All in good fun but the girls and I kind of egg each other on.  

But really, the poor guy.  That tree was prickly.  Mercilessly prickly.  He had my son pushing it so he could get in there better and I had no idea how painful this was until I volunteered to help.  This picture is pre-helping.

Then the poor guy lugged that thing around and loaded it on the sled with no help.  I was taking pictures, my son was nursing his flesh wounds and the girls were standing around looking good.

We got it home and that's when the real work began.  I mean, anyone who has put up a tree knows the painful part really isn't the prickly branches.  It's putting on the lights.  But we managed to get them on and get everything decorated and the dog even got in the Christmas mood.  He's not crazy about his santa outfit.  But he wears it every year for about ten minutes.

By now you are probably wondering where's the recipe?  Where's the giveaway?  Today, and only today unless there is another giveaway sometime, I am breaking with tradition and there is no recipe.  But there is a giveaway.  I'm so excited!  I have always thought it is so cool when blogs have giveaways so I thought I'd have one here on my little corner of the world.  I appreciate my readers and I want you to know that.  So, without further ado here is what I am giving away.

Okay, I couldn't resist.  I think I'm a little punchy this evening.  I am not giving away a llama finger puppet on the head of a toy.  Here's the real deal.

That's much better!  As you can see, this includes a pack of pretty recipe cards that feature the Bible verse that I like to think of as my blog verse; three yummy tea samples (one white tea, one red tea, one black tea) and a beautiful ornament.  I will hold a drawing on Thursday, December 1st wherein one of my lovely or handsome assistants will draw the name of the winner out of a hat.  Here's what you need to do to get your name in that hat.  Leave a comment below telling me what your favorite Christmas CD is and who it is by ~ a certain singer, group, orchestra . . .  I'd love to hear who you like listening to at Christmas.  Oh, and since this question may come up you can only enter once.  Okay, I think that's it.  It's so fun to celebrate Christmas and all the lovely things that come with it!