Decorating!

I absolutely love this time of year and decorating the house. Kurtis always gives me a hard time because I have so many decorations, but we love how warm and festive it makes our home feel when it's all set up.  I was a little worried about it this year with a 22 month old but he is doing amazing!   As soon as the tree was up he of course started grabbing the bulbs off the tree going "ball, ball, ball."  We then told him they were pretties and not to touch and he hasn't touched them since!  We even have a few presents underneath that he hasn't even attempted to touch.  He has his own Little People Nativity set that he plays with.  I'm sure that will all change someday! 

 2012 Guitar ornament from Mommy & Daddy 

2012 Football ornament from Grandma and Grandpa Phillips

Growing up as a little girl my grandparents and parents always gave me an ornament for each year.    I was putting a separate tree up with all our childhood ornaments; however, I need to get a new one so I haven't done it yet.  We started this tradition with Landon last year and these are this year's ornaments.

Helping mommy; cheese! 

Pretty!

Looking at last year's ornament he got from Mommy and Daddy.

The finished product!

This is one of my favorite decorations.  My mom and dad made this license plate countdown tree.  Each day we put a new license plate number on the tree.

My Nativity scene is finally complete!  

My new Santa I got from my parents last Christmas. 

The stockings are hung; even Wally has one!

The only decoration that has not stayed in its place are my candy cane gel stickers.  The ones at the bottom are all rearranged.  I don't even attempt to put them back together so that is Landon's little area.