Christmas is MY FAVORITE!!! Everything Christmas is just the best... Christmas carols, warm drinks, the smells of cinnamon, nutmeg and gingersnaps, shopping for gifts, decorating the tree, baking... lots of baking!
My parents were here over Thanksgiving and we went to a tree farm just outside of town and got our first real christmas tree as a married couple!! (This is something I beg and plead with the husband about EVERY year and he always says when we get a house... well guess what sugar plum! NO more excuses, we've got the house now we get the tree!!) So you could say I'm a little fanatical about decorating the tree... I don't just wrap a string of lights around the tree and throw up some ornaments. Every branch deserves it's own lights, so I wrap nearly every branch with lights until it is covered! Our tree just shy of 7 ft which in my mind constitutes 1 strand of lights per every 2 feet = 3-4 strands right? Well the husband took a little more convincing. The first trip we bought 3 boxes which only got me a little over half way up the tree, so we went back and got one more box which technically was still not enough, but I got cut off, so I made it work (Next year we are SO getting another box!) Nearly finished product (still needs some ornaments and ribbons!):
These are a few of my favorite ornaments thus far:
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| Symbolic of our Hawaiian Christmas last year! |
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| I LOVE to Bake! |
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| The Husband's Favorite |
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| My new favorite - "Our First Home" |
We ended the weekend by putting up the front porch decorations:
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| The husband's contributions! |
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| Finished! |
Where is the snow??
ReplyDeleteThe tree looks great! I can't wait to see this in person. The house has really been transformed in the last few months. Great planning and work!
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