Merry Christmas!!

The Christmas decorations are FINALLY up!! 

We added several new decorations this year. I'm soooo in love with all of them:

Morgan wanted to know what this saying meant and I explained it to her. She said, "I still want presents though!" HA!

 Next is my new shelf. I love this cause I can use it year round for all kinds of stuff!! Oh the decorating possibilities......

 

So there's a sweet story behind the little Willow Tree in this picture. When I first started collecting these, I saw this one and randomly told Chris that I wanted it when we got a house one day.  It's called

Mi Casa su Casa. So a couple days after we closed on our house (close to 2 years later), he came home from lunch with a wrapped present and it was this Willow Tree. He'd remembered after all that time!!! And it's not as if he shops at places that sell Willow Trees either, so he had to make an effort to go get it! Not gonna lie.. I GEEKED! OUT! over this one! I'm a sucker for things like this! It's seriously my all time favorite gift that he's ever given me!

I picked up this little shelf at my co-workers consignment shop... I flippin' LOVE this thing... don't know why, but I do.  It wasn't even for sale. She was using it as a display, but I made her clear everything off of it so I could get it!

  

 The whole living room. Yes, the Nativity is still my FAVE decoration overall. I only get to put it out for 1 month a year, so I got all kinds of excited about it!

 I love how Morgan snuck that bright shiny "M" right there in the front. I didn't notice it until I was adding these pics....she's a dead woman HA!

 Does anyone else get tired of trying to sort through all the presents to find the neighbor, friends, or extended family gifts? Well this year, we got these cute little trees for those! They're off in their own little corner so they're easily accessible whenever those people pop by or we're going to be seeing them! Plus it keeps the kids from handling them during their daily plunder through the gifts. I swear, every year, my kids fiddle with these presents as if they're hoping that the name on them will just magically change to theirs or something.

Christmas is my favorite time of year.  Despite all the chaos and things going on, there's just something about the season that makes you want to smile.