The Register is beginning to compile its annual list of houses in the Valley with not-to-be missed holiday decorations. If you would like to recommend a house for this list, send the address to Features Editor Sasha Paulsen at spaulsen@napanews.com. Please include any special details and, for houses in Napa, the area of the city where the address is. The list will be published Dec. 17./Register

Open your home to a foreign student

Foreign high school students are scheduled to arrive in Napa soon for the academic semester and year, and the Pacific Intercultural Exchange program is looking for a few more host families. The students are all between the ages of 15 and 18, speak English, and have their own spending money. Students also have their own accident and health insurance. Host families will be matched with students based on common interests and lifestyles through an informal in-home meeting. P.I.E. hosts students from Germany, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, Korea, Australia and more. Local Napa families who are interested can call P.I.E. at (800) 631-1818 for more information./Register

Share your favorite Christmas photo

Remember unwrapping that Hula-hoop or your first Barbie on Christmas? Was it captured on film as you unwrapped it under the Christmas tree? Or, was it getting your first Tonka dump truck or possibly that HO-scale race car set? Maybe it was that little red piano you wanted so badly so you could pursue a career in music. For our hip reader, maybe was getting that cool iPod.

The Real Napa Sunday section of the Napa Valley Register wants to share your favorite holiday photograph memories with our community of readers.

Just send us you photo and a brief note about the special memory.

Send your favorite holiday memory snapshot via e-mail to mtreleven@napanews.com, or mail it to the Napa Valley Register, Real Napa editor, P.O. Box 150, Napa, 94559. For more information call editor Mike Treleven at 256-2211./Register