It's beginning...

At the Lundell House, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Please excuse my attempts to make myself look like a photographer, but I did have fun taking all these pictures. First off, my friend Gina and I made these glorious wreaths (that may have caused us a bit of stress, but were fun.) I decided to hang mine indoors because it turns out that it is extremely fragile!

This is a close up of our wreath, just some dollar store ornaments and a wire hanger...yep that easy!
We also decorated our Christmas tree, which I absolutely love! It is my parents old flocked tree, (Eric absolutely HATES to put on the lights...I don't blame him!) it is a beautiful tree and I really can't believe it still looks so good after all these years.

I bought these big ornaments this year at Tia Pan, and I love them! They add so much.

Here are some more close up shots of the tree, I'm loving the bright greens and reds.
Here are some more of my the decorations that I use to keep my home warm and happy for Christmas. I love my apothecary jar, I use it for all seasons...for Christmas I fill it with ornaments!
Candy cane candles! I used to have a fireplace with a mantle so my bulb garland would go on that, this year I had to get creative with it so I put it on my entertainment center... it works!

This is a close up of my "garland"

I had some extra ornaments from our wreath so...I put them in a dish.
That is most of it! You have pretty much been through our house now, well you missed the nativity, and our stockings are hung, etc. I love the Holidays and it was so enjoyable to spend this weekend with family. Thanksgiving day was amazing filled with so much food and so much family. On Thanksgiving day we went to my Aunt Lorraine's and watched Up (great movie, i recommend it) we followed the movie with a fabulous dinner. After feeling like huge pigs we rested for a bit, played a little pool and ping pong and then we went to visit the Lundells where we ate wonderful pie, had a Fifa tourney, and watched The Passenger. Fine Holiday Fun!

In the spirit of Thanksgiving I would like to express that I feel so grateful for family and to have so much family so close to us. I am also so grateful for friends, I feel like I have the most wonderful friends that would really do anything for me and are always there to help me out or just be there to enjoy time together. Most of all I am super grateful for my husband, he works so hard at school, his classes get harder and harder and he never gives up, he also continues to keep a job while juggling school and homework and I'm so grateful for his commitment to his family.