A few of our favorite things

It's always so hard to put up our Christmas decorations because they are so sentimental to us.  Here are just a few of our favorite Christmas things....

Grandmother Koon crocheted these Christmas ornaments for Mommy:

This was the Fairs' Christmas tree skirt:

Nana made this angel, and we put it on all of our Christmas trees when Mommy was little:

Great grandmother Genevieve made this ceramic Christmas tree:

Stewbaby and Pop gave Mommy and Daddy this nativity set for our first Christmas:

Stewbaby and Pop brought this windmill home from their trip to Germany:

Nana and Granddaddy Rickey gave Mommy all of these Gail Pittman ornaments when she was a little girl:

Daddy has collected these snowglobes; there is one for every year we have lived in Jackson:

These angels were Margaret and Charles's:

Mommy bought this advent calendar for Daddy in New Orleans when she worked for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals:

Nana and Grandpa have given us a new Santa Claus each Christmas:

Our Jessie Tree:

Great grandmother Genevieve made these Santa Clauses:

This Wolfe nativity set came from Grandmother Kibler:

The stockings were made by Grandmother Koon, and the gold Christmas trees donned Daddy's Barbour grandparents' mantel when Daddy was a little boy:

And, last by not least, the leather jingle bells came from the Fairs' home in Louisville, and the red and purple jingle bells were given to Jane Gray and Charlie by Santa Claus at the Governor's Mansion when they were little fellows: