Christmas Decorations Home Tour

I decorated for Christmas on November 15th….!

I made myself wait until now to do a “Christmas Tour”. Mainly because my mom and sister had a fit that my Christmas Decorations went up before Thanksgiving. But now it is December and socially acceptable to be decorated for Christmas! So here is my “Christmas Home Tour”.

Living Room

 Our Christmas Tree

We purchased this new tree after Christmas last year (I had been using garage-saled trees for the past 11 years and they finally fell apart. Literally fell apart. Limbs coming off and everything). So Nik purchased this beautiful tree for me! One problem…it is 9 feet tall. Our home in Texas had 12 foot ceilings, so not a problem. This home has somewhere close to 9 foot ceilings. In order to get this tree to work, I had to bend the top branch all the way down - so no room for a tree topper! But I made it work with a bow made out of ribbon. 

By the tree I have a little Santa Clause

The other side of the tree is a reading basket and some of Jaxen’s stuffed animals in his rocker.

On our trunk I have some snowmen, a Christmas printable, and a wall hanging

Jaxen’s Play Room

He has a little tree in his room too - 

on it we will hang the Jesse Tree Christmas Ornaments

 And he has his little snowman-drummer - he loves it!

Our Sitting Room

On our mantel I have a lit tree, stockings and our beautiful nativity

Our bookshelves have a village set, pictures and a jar of ornaments

Our door going upstairs has a cute little “Noel” hanging from it

Foyer

I have an iron tree that was given to me - I love it!

And a fresh pine wreath - it is beautiful and smells so good

Dining Room

This is Jaxen’s Activity Bench

I found a great way to hang cards - wrap foam board in Christmas paper and put your cards on it.

It looks a little slim right now…I’m waiting on Christmas Cards (hint hint)!!

And a few little baskets to keep me organized

Kitchen

Lit garland on our big window

A saying from one of my favorite movies - makes me smile while I cook!

Christmas candle and picture

Above my sink

A cute little Christmas tree (don’t you like my red and green apples?!)

And a snowman cookie jar

And that’s all for our home Christmas Tour! 

No - I don’t decorate bathrooms or bedrooms - I think Nik might shoot me if I did! Ha Ha.

Oh, and we were supposed to decorate outside (I have all the stuff even) 

but we don’t have a power outlet! Bummer, huh?

I hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit of our house this Christmas Season.

I know I love seeing everyone else’s decorations (hint hint - if you blog!). 

Merry Christmas!

Weekend Recap…In Pictures

Here are some highlights from the past weekend…In pictures. Because why not?

I spent some time printing, cutting, hole-punching and tying ribbon to these Jesse Tree 

Coloring-page Ornaments, that I will color with Jaxen each day and hang on his Christmas Tree.

These ornaments help tell the Christmas Story and are a great way to share it with the little ones!

 Jaxen decided the best place to hang his hammers was on his shirt - Ha ha! I love this kid!

 Sunday night, Nik decided it would be fun for Jaxen to have a tent in his room.

I don’t think we expected this tent to take up his whole room!

But Jaxen thought is was so fun to sit in his tent and watch TV...

or lay down with his daddy!

Sunday Selfies!

Later on Sunday afternoon, we went to a little Christmas Party and before we left 

he wanted a pic with Nik. Two handsome guys!

While at the Christmas Party, Jaxen enjoyed a DumDum sucker.

I tried to get a cute picture with him in front of the tree but it was pretty much a fail!

So I thought maybe I could get one in front of the Nutcrackers? Fail.

He sat still in this chair for about 30 seconds.

 This is the view from our car, inside the garage…surrounded by firewood! 

I thought it was funny and wanted to share.

Jaxen, in a shopping cart, eating a Mint Oreo!

He was so frustrated that there were Christmas M&M’s, Oreos, and bananas in the cart, 

and he couldn’t have any…so I finally gave in and let him have an oreo. 

And then a banana (after it was paid for!).

Nik and I had our first “Green Smoothie”. 

(I never finished mine)!

That’s about it! We have a very busy but very fun week planned…stay tuned!

Up next…our Christmas Home Tour!!!!

December 1

It's a Monday. But it's also the first day of December. And the last month of this year... Hello December!

What a great day, huh?

I know that there is nothing really special about this day - but it just makes me happy to know that December is here! I tried to do something special to commemorate this day…but it was a fail! Guess what it was? I thought it would be fun to have a Family Christmas Movie Night. Sounds fun, right? I even picked my favorite Christmas movie…Elf. But halfway through we turned it off. Jaxen was totally not into it and I think Nik was only watching it to humor me. Sweet man. I decided that our next Family Christmas Movie Night would need to be an animated movie that Jaxen might like. And I’ll save Elf for myself another day!

But I did make pie…a chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-pie to be exact!

This is pre-baking…but doesn’t it look fantastic?! 

So now that December is finally here, I can look forward to:

Christmas Cards

Celebrating Advent each week

Visiting Family

Cookie Exchange Party

Ladies Advent Tea

Christmas Parties

Wrapping Presents

Lights

Christmas Trees and Decorations

Jaxen Opening Presents

Christmas Movies

Making Ornaments

Lots of Fires and Cozy Nights!

Jaxen even wore a Christmas shirt in honor of the first day of December.

Happy December, everyone! I hope this month is full of great things for you!