Christmas 2010

in addition to being a little delayed posting snow pictures, i never posted pictures of our house at Christmas this year, as i was out of town the day the blog i sometimes link up with for house photos did their Christmas tours and didn't get around to doing it afterwards.  i always love getting our stuff out and decorated for Christmas!  the ornaments are especially fun because we have a great assortment of ornaments from our childhoods, ones we've gotten on various trips we've taken, and ones given to me by my mom's and my friends for a wedding shower (one of the perks to a december wedding :)).  it's great to think about the people, places, and memories associated with each ornament, so that's one of the parts of decorating i love the most.  on a side note, i am constantly reminded of everyone's extreme generosity at that shower (and others) when i get to use all of the wonderful gifts they gave us each day in our house!  i feel like i should be continuously writing them all thank-you notes, as i have loved getting to use their gifts over the past 4+ years. 

we kind of do the same decor each year, but i guess as long as it looks nice, that's ok!  whole house:  candles in the windows, front railing decorated with garland and lights, this year billy put up lights on our crepe myrtle; main level:  mantle decorated with the nativity (which stays there year-round) and some other decorative elements, Christmas tree, Christmas books, fall/winter centerpiece in the dining room, etc.; basement: snow village, Christmas palm tree (that also stays up all year round); upstairs:  little decorative items (since basically no one except for us sees that area); porch:  little Christmas tree.

here are a few pictures from around our house...

i made little tags for the stockings this year out of some scrapbook paper we had that coordinated well with the colors in the room :)

jefferson was really excited to get into his stocking Christmas morning!

snow village

living room mantle

mantle after i added kel's gift (the stars for the nativity :))

our tree and large, pretty nativity that was a gift from the hostesses of my above-mentioned shower

i guess i didn't do a great job of getting Christmas photos of our house this year, but we think it looked pretty :) (and still have most of the decorations up...guess i'll get to taking them down this weekend!)