It’s been a bit since I posted, thought I would check in! We had a good Thanksgiving last week - my parents, Nathan’s parents, and Uncle Jimmy ate together at the Millers’ house. It was tasty and we ate too much, as always. Since then I’ve been in full Christmas-mode…as if that would surprise anyone who knows me. We put up the tree, a 7 ft. “pencil” tree that I got on sale for $35 at Trees n Trends; bought new string lights with a wedding gift card to Lowe’s; and I pulled out all my ornaments and decorations. :) I had to buy a tree skirt because the metal stand was just too ugly - the skirt is too BIG for the tree, but we figure it will get covered up with presents anyway. Here are some pictures from that evening:

Me being goofy with the lights.

Stringing lights on the tree…

Nathan putting on the topper
This is our first ornament on the tree…an absolutely stunning crystal Swarovski snowflake Nathan gave me for Christmas this year! It’s an early gift, but he wanted us to enjoy it on the tree. It’s their 2007 “annual edition” ornament, and he says he’s going to give one to me every year. :) I’m crazy about it!
Here is what it looks like, though I think the picture doesn’t do it justice. :)

Here it is all decorated and lit the first night we had it up. We had some eggnog and watched Christmas Vacation. haha. :)
Here are a couple of my nativities. I am a huge fan of nativity scenes - I think they can be so beautiful. The one on the left is a terra cotta scene that my mom got me from Ten Thousand Villages. I believe it is from Portugal. The triangular one is a vintage scene my sister gave me, and I got the tiny vintage one at a thrift store for 25 cents. I have another one from Ten Thousand Villages that is miniature figures inside a hinged gourd….I need to get it out still.

This is a shot of my “mantle” aka the shelf over the television…the gold tealight holders are from Target and the glittery sprigs I got from Michaels for about 33 cents a pop. (Thanks Mom) Then my village is made up of those cardboard houses you can buy at the craft store, where they have all that paintable paper mache stuff. Lots of gold paint, glitter, and mini tinsel…I love Christmas villages and cannot afford the awesome antique paper ones, so this is what I’ve got!

And here is the tree with the tree skirt and it’s first present!! It’s for Nathan. :)

So anyway, obviously we’re (mostly I am) ready for the season…we’ve got a little shopping to do (a lot of shopping to do) but we’ve got a plan of attack and should be ready for Christmas. Michelle (Nathan’s sister) will be having her little boy, Mac, very very soon - she’s due on December 12th, they will induce on the 14th, but who knows…! We are so excited! We are also so pumped because we found out yesterday that my sister Meghan is having another BOY! I know they pictured having boys, and Bridger will be such a good big brother. She’s due April 21st.

Well, it was mostly an update of pictures, but an update nonetheless…I’m sure we’ll be back with more, what with the upcoming birth of our nephew and the holiday season. :)

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