Oh I LOVE these pictures!!! I am soooo ready for Christmas! This morning we had a really thick frost and my friend just texted me and said it's trying to snow where she lives, a couple of hours away!! I love winter until Christmas, and then after New Years it can go away.
I am such a Christmas freak! I will start watching the Shopping Channel in September/October when they are starting to sell Christmas items, just because it's something Christmasy on tv lol!
We have only had two Christmases in our house. The first year we had our tree in our living room. Then we bought new furniture and there was no room! So last year we put it up in our breakfast nook. We don't really use that room but it is right off the kitchen and you can see it there. I miss it in the living room though because we spend our evenings there! In the next few years we will be transforming our breakfast nook by bringing in my mother-in-law's antique piano and some seating. I think the tree will look better then
Do you guys do real or fake trees? I loooooooooooooove real trees but I like to have my tree up for too long, and we have really old wood floors with some pretty wide cracks in some places (we don't want to refinish - we love them!) and I think the needles would get stuck in them! My parents have a real tree when we have Christmas at the lake, and my in-laws always have a real tree. So for now, we'll have fake at home!
Does anyone have outside pictures of their houses? I am so unsure what to do with our house on the outside! We have "cool white" bulbs around the rooflines of our old 2.5 story character home, and a couple of those spiral trees in the front. For the last two years we put out light-up candy canes and some of the old-school lighted reindeer (in warm white, which contrasted with the cool white on the house!) We sold those this year. I feel like I want it to look traditional and thought of maybe some lighted garland around the front door or something. We can't go totally extravagant because it is normally -40 degrees the day we do our decorating lol!