Tina,
Your house sounds lovely and colourful, I do love the nicely decorated houses I've passed in the evenings, they seem to make me feel better, I have always loved christmas, but as a child we had no decorations, so I think I like to make up for it now.

I have bought Lauren a mobile (Cell) for christmas too, and she wanted a drum synthesizer so we got her that too, it has an ear phone socket, I'm not silly
Lauren will be 12 in April, so our they're close in age, is your daughter getting really grown up? mine sure is.

I hope you have a wonderful christmas and lots of good fortune in the new year.

Love Tracy x