My lips to God's ears, this is a true story. Eight years ago my husband opened a pharmacy for Walmart in a town south of us Grandview. Since he was apprx. 2 hours away we bought a travel trailer for him to live in while he worked there. I was home alone, had taken a nap with my chihuahua and woke up, noticed our brand new tree from Lowes looked funky and my cockatiels were on serious alert. Out from the tree jumped an honest to goodness SQUIRREL. I thought, how am I going to get this guy out of the house? I ran and closed all interior doors except for the game room which he ran straight to and climbed everything he could. I thought about calling the PD but at the time I volunteered as an auxiliary officer and thought I'll never live this down. So I opened our 3 outside doors and finally he ran out. I told my husband if we did not get a nice chimney cover ASAP, I was divorcing him, lol. We'd had several squirrel and bird incidents. I got my chimney cover and we just celebrated 50 years together. That was the year I was Home Alone and experiencing A Christmas Vacation. xoxTXDeb

@nicoledarling9646

7 ай бұрын

Couldn't love this story more!!

@fourlittlebirds6166

7 ай бұрын

That’s a seriously Clark Griswold moment! 😂

@conniedavis9657

7 ай бұрын

😊😊😊

@Lollylolly7765

7 ай бұрын

Beautiful Michelle. You did a great job.🥰

@latishawilliams8155

7 ай бұрын

Oh wow lol you're a brave lady 😂.

I live in western Canada. We used to get fresh cut Christmas trees every year. One year my daughter came running into our bedroom late at night. Our big orange tabby cat had found a live bat in the Christmas tree we had just put up earlier that day. It was quite the zoo with 2 dogs and 3 cats my husband and daughter trying to deal with this poor confused brown bat. Eventually we put it in a shoe box out in the garage to go free. We now have a bat ornament on the Christmas tree every year as a reminder of that crazy night.

My daughter and I only like white lights! My husband and son (in law) like colored lights. White lights win every year! 🤣🎁🎄

Inside, classic lights, but outside I love colorful lights!!

Your outdoor decor is absolutely beautiful 🎄

We love the grinch in our house too!! Your whole house is incredible!

My favorite Christmas movie is The Santa Clause! Love Tim Allen and love that movie!

I hope you all enjoy today's video and have an amazing Thursday!

@luizaisaaccruz1223

7 ай бұрын

Sou brasileira e amo seu vídeos... de minas Gerais #brasil

I like colored lights. Makes it more festive for me.😀

Wow Michelle everything looks amazing. Love the garland . The Grinch bathroom is great. My favorite show is Rudolph 🥰

The front yard is beautiful I think red and white christmas lights pretty together those colors I have on my windows.

WOW, Michelle!!!!! How beautiful!!!!! I just love your dew drops of wisdom!!!!!

Absolutely gorgeous...it so breathtakingly beautiful.....great job

That garland is really beautiful. I love it!💖

Oh wow!!!! So beautiful! The outside turned out so perfect!!! 😍🎄

Your house is beautiful good job inside to. And what a beautiful little boy. He was so cute watching

I so agree with your sister 😅🙌That's what we've been trying to say something about it for years :) I'll see that video!

Wow you really go all out❤ I agree on the lifting your children up in their gifts.

Oh the outside looks absolutely stunning ❤🎅🌲😍 the wreaths on the windows oh my gosh love it ❤

Everything looks so beautiful. It's stunning! 💖

Michelle, I had to make a confession and another comment. I am an older woman in bad health and I don’t sleep well. So, this morning when I watched your video I kept falling in and out of sleep. So, I came back just now and watched it again I was shocked at what all I had missed. The whole front off your home is decked out not only the beautiful porch but the huge beautiful lighted wreaths, a train, candy canes, and I am sure other great items I didn’t say. Beautiful and so much work!!!! ❤😊🎄🦌🔔🎅

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

So beautiful I love it all I’m colored lights outside and clear inside

OH MY GOODNESS!! Your Christmas closet reminds me of is the clown car that should only fit a few clowns but tons of them keep filing out of it!! That must be a huge closet!! Love your decorating and your commentary. You're one of my favorite youtube channels.

This is most beautiful porch so pretty perfect

Hi Michelle, your Home looks magical,inside and out,beuatiful, I love ❤🌲

Absolutely stunning Michelle! Beautiful! ❤❤❤

Everything is so beautiful. Awesome.

OMG I have just discovered your channel and am thinking of doing my own in Australia starting soon. Never thought I could but you must have been the push I was waiting for when I saw your free KZread advise. Plus all my kids friends have been telling me to do something so I am going to take the plunge. Thank you and thank you for the Griswolds Christmas this is my family to a tee. My dad in our old childhood house every Christmas has to fix the sewer as it always got blocked and us kids would yell out the window that famous line of course! Always gives us a laugh and we watch it religiously every year more than once. I always joke if there was a musical I could be in it with no script and probably recite everyone’s lines. Merry Christmas keep up the amazing videos just loving them only wish we had access to more of these amazing decorations. I was just in NYC and picked up items at Walmart, Ross, Hobby Lobby, Marshalls and wish I could have bought back so much more. 🎄 🎅 🤶 ❤

Beautiful! That garland is awesome! Will have to keep an eye out to see if they go on sale…

Absolutely gorgeous. Love your little guy.

Hi Michelle, I’ve used Christmas tree hooks as my wire for the last few years. That’s how I attach beaded garland and ribbons. I also bend the hooks around the tree branches so they don’t fall off. My Lowe’s tree, you can’t bend the branches for your ribbons and things at all, so this works for me. It is a pain, but works.

Súper lindo todo lo que haces!!!!! Felicitaciones!!!!! ❤️❤️🥂👍👍👍

Your decorations look very nice. I prefer multi-color lights.

I live in FL so I get it with the dead lizard 🦎 That was so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow Michelle!! You are amazing and truly blessed. Your decorating skills are amazing! Your house is what Christmas dreams are made of!! ❤

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Absolutely beautiful Michelle!!! ❤ stunning 🤩 We have a tradition every year to go look at Christmas lights. Home Alone and Christmas Vacation ❤

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Tonya!

Absolutely beautiful.

Your house looks beautiful. I would have never put the red and white lights together but after seeing this combo I will do this next year to my wreaths. I use white lights only but love how yours looks. 🎄☃️

Everything looks so fantastic 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄❤️

I go through phases with lights. For many years only used multicolored lights and had a friend tease me about my "tacky circus lights' (but I'm tacky soooo) so the next year switched to all white. Found it a little boring for my tacky self but used white for a few years, switched to all blue, back to multi, now white again, lol. Hubby lets me know he prefers the white, never knew he paid attention. Your decor is always fantastic, thank you for sharing.

All looks amazing, great job!!! 🎄

Wow, your wreathes are fantastic!

I like colored lights!!!!!!

Your Christmas Decorations is so beautiful & Elegant!!!! It's so Festive I love it!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Your porch looks gorgeous!!!🎄❤️🎄❤️

Your home is incredible beautiful! You did a wonderful job! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Wow, your house looks amazing ❤😊 Love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 😊

Absolutely beautiful

It looks lovely but I would also put lights on the lovely tree you have on the side of the porch

Your house turned out amazing. That Polar Express train on the lawn is a showstopper. My Griswold moment was when a few years ago, after hours of hanging up my Christmas lights outside on a very cold day, half of them didn’t work. And if that wasn’t bad enough turned out that my neighbours, unbeknownst to me, were watching me from inside their homes so they got to witness my embarrassing moment. I only found out that they were watching me when they took it upon themselves to ask me why I was hanging up my lights again.🙈Needless to say that from now on the first thing I do is check the lights. Lesson learned. 😂

Your Grinch bathroom turned out to be so cute! I absolutely love the front porch area, that garland is just beautiful! 😊❤😊🎄

Hi Michelle, great video! I’m with you I enjoy color lights. The all white is pretty and classic looking but I think the colors bring me more joy 🤩. You are really talented in decorating. I am not creative, I wish I was. My husband has great ideas and I like to help him make them happen. I was glad to see you left the checkered rug under, I did also but didn’t know if it was good for Christmas. 🎄

Wow, Michelle it is beautiful. You have done a wonderful job decorating the indoor and outdoor area and as for those huge wreaths looks amazing you do have a beautiful home. I was like that is awesome you have those lamp post cause I have 2 of them also . GREAT JOB !

Absolutely beautiful!!!!!

Classic white lights

Ok, you looked absolutely gorgeous in that red blouse! Seriously, you could have walked out of a magazine! 😀💖

It’s all beautiful Michelle love ❤️ love 💕💕 it

I absolutely ❤you home decor

It’s been about 47 years ago. I bought a fresh cut tree, drilled holes in the bottom and set it in a bucket outside until we were ready to put it up. A couple days later my mom and one of her friends took the tree in and decorated it. Mama bent downtown to plug the lights in and something stuck its tongue out at her. Her friend went and got a towel, and being the tall lady she was,took the towel in both hands and went whoosh, whoosh several times and thought she had caught it. She went outside and shook the towel believing she had got rid of the little varmit. They finish the tree and stand back to admire it. There on the angel was the lizard. This time they drug the entire tree, decorations and all, outside and shook and stomped on some of the limbs until they saw the lizard jump off. When I got home from work and saw this scrawny Christmas tree, with broken limbs and some limbs stripped of all needles, I asked what had happened. When I heard their story, I laughed hysterically. My thought was: what did the neighbors and people driving by think when they saw 2 women stomping on a Christmas tree. That’s the tree I will never forget, and one they will never live down. 😂

You are so good at decorating!

Christmas lights & outdoor 🔥 This the most amazing outdoor decor you've ever made! OMG 😍 I didn't expect this! #perfection

Everything came out amazing! I love your gigantic wreath. I want to know where you get all your energy?😂😂 Beautiful, just magical!! Merry Christmas! 🌲❄️☃️🫶👍

Amo como os americanos decoram para o natal... e lindo...

Wow! Your decor is spectacular!

You did a beautiful job!! 🤩🎄🎄❤💚

It is all totally beautiful❤

Michelle. You are one hard worker ❤ love your decorations you are amazing decorator..you are a sweet and beautiful lady..can't wait to see what you do next..merry Christmas to you and your family..

So beautiful

I love White light's outside.Love your video.I am new on your channel.Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!Your home is so pretty.Great Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow so beautiful good job

Never seen your channel before enjoyed it your home is beautiful ❤ from Julie from Wrexham

We put a Garland over our Garage Arch Stucco Wall.we had to pit Command Hook put Super Glue in it leave it for a day / Overnight put as much Command hook get a wire to tie it so forbthe next yeit will be easy to hang.

Omg so funny, my husbands name is Chris and he loves color lights and I hate color and like the classic warm white. So naturally we do what I want 😂

Breathtaking❤❤❤❤❤

I am doing a grinch bathroom this year. First time I'm doing one and I obviously started getting decor too late. I had to make my own grinchy things because everything is sold out. I'm still on the look out! Your bathroom turned out so cute!

Michelle your front porch is beautiful....if I can make one suggestion making the same ribbon 🎀 for your out door lamps.

I live in GA, and we have the same lizards here. They like bushes and greenery. I took my fall wreath off the door, and one jumped out of it as I was about to walk into the house.

Damn girl your house I mean mansion lol looks amazing you got like the perfect life you blessed girl❤

Michelle it looks so beautiful!❤

Wow you just make this look so easy and so so beautiful every year!! You’ve done a fantastic job Michelle I so look forward to your Christmas decorations video well done to you I love everything💕💖💕you are my favourite every year.Merry Christmas to you and all🥂🥰

Unbelievable! It looks so lovely Michelle!🎄🎅🏼 Merry Christmas ❤

❤️❤️🎄🎄❤️❤️Eveything is beautiful

Love, love, love it! You do an amazing job!

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Beautiful!

Looks terrific

Hi, Michelle !!!!! 👋 Love your decor, Have a great day !!!

@MichelleOMalley711

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! You too!

Wow looks Great for sure

Michelle, You knocked it out of the park this year! OMG!! Your house looks BEAUTIFUL! Your Christmas decorating is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful ideas! I use nothing but cluster lights and tell nobody! Lol 😂 Everybody keeps asking how I make my lights look so bright! God Bless You! I look forward to your videos every week! Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 ❤️💚🎅🏻❤️💚🎄🎅🏻🎁

I've told so many people about your Xmas decorating especially your trees.

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

thank you!

Beautiful

Beautiful!!❤

Looks so pretty ❤

Im so glad your video was recommended for me. New subscriber now!! I've been binge watching gotten so many tips and ideas thank you.😊 your home absolutely looks generous. National Lampoon is my absolute favorite😂 My Griswold moment was last year pulled out my tree found out it was home for stink buggies thank God we noticed the box before we brought it into the house. I love the colored lights but the white does look elegant to me. My husband wants to go with some green grinch lights this year for the oitside.

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

I’m glad to have you here! Good thing you noticed early but sorry it was full of stink bugs!

@latishawilliams8155

6 ай бұрын

Me too and me too😂

I decorate the inside of my house with only white lights so outside I do colored lights.

This is what I've been waiting for 😎 Can't wait to watch!!

Beautiful ♥️♥️♥️♥️

That sweet baby has grown so fast! Everything looks wonderful! White lights for me!!!❤️🎄🎄🎄🙂😊

Wow that porch people will be able to tell straight off that you like decorating for Christmas just from one look at that porch 😍 love the grinch theme in the bathroom, super cute ❤

Michelle your home is so lovely. You always decorate so beautifully👍🏻🎄🎄 love the large wreath. Looks perfect👍🏻

So beautiful ❤

@MichelleOMalley711

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊