Deck the Halls...

Robbie and I decided that we needed the weekend to get the house in order and decorate for Christmas. So...we cleared our calendar and got to work....

Here is the final product...

SIX CHRISTMAS TREES

The kids trees decorated with an ornament from each year. Last year they had Disney ornaments since we made our first trip to Disney World. For the first time, I took the kids to pick out their own ornaments. The winner???? The Empire State Building.

Why??? Because we made our first trip to NYC this summer. We didn't even visit the Empire State Building but Tate remembered that building and the trip must have made an impact because he chose that over a racecar...and then of course Lily wanted the one that Tate wanted.

Our travel tree...this tree has ornaments from all of the places we've visited. If you look very closely, there are only two ornaments on the tree: one from Keuka Lake and one from Ellijay, GA. Unfortunately, a box is still missing that contains all of the beautiful keepsakes we have collected, but I am not done looking yet.

Our family Christmas tree...this one has ornaments from everyone and everything. We were really excited to put Tate's ornaments that he made last year at school. He remembered making them and was so excited to see them on the tree. This tree has my favorite "pearl" lights...they look like little lit balls...I love them!!!

We also have a small Princess tree in the kids' bathroom and a silver evergreen tree sitting on Robbie's desk.

We have also hung the stockings by the chimney with care...why so many you ask??? Well this year we will have our four, plus Max, Nonny, my brother, Bobo, and Paul, a longtime family friends for Christmas morning...so we must have a stocking for everyone. I love my fireplace...it's one of my favorite features of this house.

The last adventure happened today when Robbie tried to hang the red "netted" lights on our bushes out front. Now...I'm not a fan of colored lights, but Tate picked them out and insisted that we put them out front. Well, after about twenty minutes of dancing around trying to untangle them, we realized that red net lights are not a fan of TEAM O'Bryan and TEAM O'Bryan is not a fan of them. So back to Hobby Lobby we go...we did manage to get over 2000 twinkle lights hanging out front. The kids and I had to go out in the front yard tonight in our PJ's to see how beautiful it looked.

I think someone loves Christmas as much as his mother...