Christmas Decorations - Redneck Style

Just kidding about the redneck thing.  Mostly.  But MMB is doing a holiday home tour, and I just had to participate so I could show off my awesome decorating skillz.  (Who in the back is choking on their cocoa because I said my skillz are awesome?  .....yeah, okay.  You're right.)

Here's our Christmas tree.  Christian took the boys to choose it this year.  Ethan desperately wanted the Charlie Brown Christmas tree on the left, and Aidan wouldn't budge because he wanted the Charlie Brown Christmas tree on the right.  Luckily, Christian talked both of them into choosing the slightly less Charlie Brownish Christmas tree in the middle.  Who is taller?  (See my plaid pajama pants?  That is my first contribution to the redneck society.)

Next, you see the pile of knitted material folded on top of the present to the right of the tree?  Those are our stockings. (My second contribution to the redneck society...) I haven't had the energy or desire to find somewhere to hang them, so there they rest until Christmas Eve when Santa fills them to the brim.  This is a photo of them taken last year.

After 12 years of marriage, I finally got a Nativity set!  Yay me!  And the W next to it was a gift from one of my dear friends in Orem.  I think of her every year when I pull it out of the Christmas box (give me a craft as a gift, and I will think of you every time I see it.)

Right after I graduated from high school 15 years ago, I spent a month in Paris, France. Shortly after coming back I got a job at an Ace Hardware that had a housewares section.  That Christmas they sold these cute villages that light up.  One of them was a cathedral that looks a lot like the Notre Dame in Paris.  I was so excited I purchased it right away, and it is now one of my favorite Christmas decorations.

Christian's mom found this fishing Santa for him. (Redneck society contribution #3.) It's just hilarious, and it has a prominent place in our home on the kitchen table, which is actually in the living room (#4 reason why I'm a redneck.) Christian has already been ice fishing twice in the last two weeks, and he will be going out many more times over the holiday break.  (He will be taking the kids, while I relax in the warm house.)

And maybe one of my favorite parts of Christmas - making treats.  I look forward to having Ethan home from school, and Christian home from work, and making treats as a family and just spending time together.  This year, I will be making cheese balls, cake balls, cherry chocolate squares, and caramel (if I get brave enough to attempt it).  Yummy!!

So those are my Christmas decorations.  If you want to play, click the link at the top of my left sidebar to find out how!