christmas

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttsssssssssssssssss CHRISTMAS!!!!!! i know many people love this time of year, so i'm just going to join the bandwagon and say i looooooooooove this time of year. i was so pumped to have christmas decorations to put them up on thanksgiving. that's right, thanksgiving. see last year we had n-o-t-h-i-n-g. just whatever both of our parents gave us that they didn't really use anymore. and clay was unemployed at the time due to this whole economy deal. so christmas was slightly delayed as far as decorating is concerned. i mean don't get me wrong we still had a tree {a real tree} but not many ornaments and some lights. it was special for sure being our first christmas married...but after christmas, clay had himself a job and i hit up some of those after christmas sales! and low and behold we ourselves some christmas things!!!

so here is our tree in the light

and here is our tree with the lights on! i love it! {also note this year we got an artificial tree, my first in 24 years, but its a life saver when you have a wee one like sophie. who thinks its a game to see how many needles she can make fall from the tree.}

our stockings :)

as you can see we have not cleaned up the ashes from our fireplace. maybe its b/c we started having fires in there once it got down to 40 degrees and have them as often as we can. i love me a blazing fire place

our precious christmas cards.

i dropped the ball again this year as far as making ours to send out in time. who knows maybe you will get a valentines card from us.