Merry CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hope you all had a wondeful holiday season, and best wishes for the New Year!

We are BIG fans of Christmas in our house...but really??? who isn't?

I have so many pics to post from Christmas, that I thought I would break them up into multiple posts.  This beginning post will show what the first half of our December was filled with. :)

Post #1 : Just Getting Started...

Once Thanksgiving is over, I get so excited to decorate my house with holiday decor!  Good-bye Oranges, Yellows, and Browns....HELLO Greens, Red, and White!

One night, while Trev took Jake to a BYU Basketball game with the guys, Morgan and I decided to get going on the decorating.  She loves it just as much as I do.  I put up the other decor, while she focused on decorating the tree.

Side Note:  When Trev and I got married, my parents gave us a Christmas tree for our first Christmas together.  It has been with us, merrily lighting our home for the last 8 years.  However, time has taken it's toll, and I have been wanting to get a new, PRE-LIT, tree for about 3 years.  In the years' past, I haven't ever wanted to spend the money to get a new one.  This year was no different, but when I tried to set the old thing up, and I couldn't even get it to stand on it's own, I decided, enough is enough!  I want a new tree for my Christmas present! :) 

We were lucky to find a beautiful one, on sale, the day after Thanksgiving.  I saw it standing there, and knew that was the one.  It was 7.5 feet tall, Pre-Lit, and had built in Pinecones and Cranberries on the branches!  Plus it was on sale right??!! 

Merry Christmas to me...then an even more magical thing happened...the very next day, they dropped the prices another 20%!!!  So I took in my receipt, got a price adjustment, and VOILE, a gorgeous new Christmas tree that I will cherish for a long time, and only paid HALF what I was planning!  It truly was a Christmas MIRACLE! :) 

The only problem was, apparently my girls (Abby and Claire) loved the cranberries just as much as I did...enough so, that they thought it would be a great idea to PICK them OFF, and bring me a handful!!  I almost cried, then after 2 days of trying to keep them away from the new tree, I finally decided to just let them do their thing, and turn the tree to the other side next year when they know better.  Luckily, about a day later, they got bored picking cranberries...tender mercy! :)

With all that said, here are the pics of our decorating...

This HAS to be the BEST time of the YEAR!