Hi there! Do you love getting to peek into others' homes and "Ooh" and "Ahh" over their holiday decor ideas? Me too! So here's my Christmas present to you: a peek into my home...
This year I put up three trees: our family tree in the living room and a tree in each of the kids' rooms. Here are the details of my main tree. (By the way, yes, I know the star is crooked. I can't seem to make it stand up straight!)
The main tree is a combination of "pretty" ornaments and sentimental ones. The tree itself is artificial, pre-lit, although I love a lot of lights, so I have added three more strands. It is an eight-year old tree (purchased with wedding-present gift cards the first Christmas of Bobby's and my marriage).
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| A couple of firsts: first "family" ornament from '06 and first Christmas from '03 |
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| If you look at the above first family ornaments we were depicted by snowmen. I didn't realize it until just now that we are snowmen again when adding a 4th Morris to our family ornament! |
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| I love this ornament -- a nod to our dear Houma, LA friends the 1st year we went to Mardi Gras down there. This was also the 1st time Rob flew in an airplane. |
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| Roll Tide! Santa Claus put this ornament in Bobby's stocking in '09. Little did we know that we would also be celebrating National Championship #13 this same football season! |
Rob's tree also features a crooked star. Perhaps I should just go with it and claim it's my style. Ha!
I need to get a tree skirt for Rob's tree. There are so many cute ones on blogs and Pinterest these days, but I really am trying to keep Rob's tree as masculine as possible. Suggestions?
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| On Rob's tree there are plenty of sentimentals tucked in like this sweet ornament! |
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| The hand print on the left is marked on the back -- 9 weeks old. The footprint on the right is marked 14 months old. Each has a partner/coordinating hand print/footprint that are on my main tree. |
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| The football player is supposed to play "Yea Alabama" the fight song, but it needs new batteries. The li'l doggie head is a Boston Terrier. We had Zoe for 7 years, but she was adopted by a girl in Atlanta now. Rob still misses her. |
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| On the left is a wooden ornament that my dad made for me 30+ years ago. (Don't ask me why he painted blue PJs on his daughter...) When Rob was a baby, I saw this wooden ornament at a Craft bazaar and bought it for him, knowing it was so similar to my childhood one. |
In Caroline's room, she has a pink tree that my dearest friend Amber bought for her when she was born. Instead of a crooked star, I made a bow for the top of her tree.
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| She, too, had her hand- and footprint made as a baby. These above were made when she was 12 weeks old. She just recently had them made again, but they are not ready to hang yet, so I kept this set together on her tree. |
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| Again I have used some of my childhood ornaments the kids' trees. This one above likely has a story behind it, but I can't remember it. |
Now I will give you the bonus part of your Holiday peek: more decor.
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| Our Christmas mantle. If you look closely, you will see our Elf sitting up there. He likes to move around the house, but this is today's perch. |
I also have a new found love of nutcrackers. In the picture above, I have some kind of dramatic ones on the mantle, as well as a cute Santa's workshop nutcracker.
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| Beside the tree, on an end table I have a nutcracker grouping. Notice the Rock Star in the back. Also the ballerina/princess. She was from Caroline's Nutcracker Ballet 1st birthday party last year. |
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| In a corner of my kitchen I have corner shelf unit full of nutcrackers. If you look on the top shelf you will see... |
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| ...the one that Rob says is his favorite. He's been hot for pirates for a while now and it doesn't seem to be cooling off. |
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| A third and final grouping of nutcrackers is near a lamp on my buffett. What an odd variety, right? A soldier, a vampire, a police officer and an angel. |
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| Since I have your attention in my kitchen, I just love this! It's a little trivet / tile that Rob made in school last year. I am a huge sucker for sentimental decorations. I plan to keep collecting memories and I hope someday my tree is full of Popsicle ornaments, etc. |
Well, that's it for now. May God continue to bless you this Holiday season and throughout the year.
Merry Christmas!
The first year we were married, we had a very uniform tree with pretty ornaments. Then we moved, twice! We lived, traveled, and collected. Our tree is slowly loosing its uniformity. Yours is beautiful and such a wonderful nod to memories and the things/people you love.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I are from Thibodaux-Houma! We moved away a year ago, but we go home at least three times a year. Isn't it a wonderful place! So glad I found your blog during the 31 day challenge! Hoping to participate next year, too.