It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

The Christmas season is upon us! I can't believe it is already December! Time just keeps on tickin' away...

We got to host our Sunday School department's Christmas party this weekend, so we were inspired to get all of our decorating done early. Wade is crazy helpful when it comes to decorating for the holidays. He really does the majority of the work - bless his heart! He put up a 9 foot tree, a 7.5 foot tree, and a 7 foot tree this year. He also did all of the outside decorations. He's pretty handy to have around, I must say. ;)

I've been thinking a lot lately about my childhood home. I try to remember where furniture was and how it was decorated. Some things I can remember vividly, and some are pretty fuzzy. I decided to try to take more pictures of our home for the boys to have when they are adults. Of course, they probably won't care a thing about what our house looked like in December of 2011, but maybe my daughter-in-laws will. Ha!

After an unfortunate event last year in which the angel from my nativity was decapitated, I decided that my favorite set should be up somewhere higher and safer. ;)

Our sentimental tree in the front room. Wade and I exchanged ornaments every year when we were dating and newlyweds. Now, we get a family ornament each year. This tree has all of those ornaments on there. I smiled as I hung the one from 1995 - the first year that we were dating. What a flashback! There are also lots of ornaments from our Christmas themed engagement party that our friends threw for us in 1999. So many memories on this tree...

Now, let the holiday shopping begin! Everything is decorated at my house, but not a single present has been purchased. It might be a little quiet on the 'ol blog for the next couple of weeks... ;)