It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

On Friday after Thanksgiving I put up my Christmas decorations! Just like when I put up my fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving decorations, I realized that I don't have very many. The good thing about that is that I got them down from the garage and put up during Kaylin's nap time. I had to wait a couple of days to decorate the tree, though.

Kaylin was excited when she came downstairs after her nap and saw the tree. She kept saying, "Tree! Tree!" She went over to the nativity and started woofing at it. I told her that there weren't any dogs in the nativity. So then she mooed. There aren't any cows in my nativity. So then she neighed. No horses either. Finally she realized there were sheep and she starting baaing. Apparently she was pretty confused by the donkeys and camels.

I am super excited to have a fireplace this year so I can hang our stockings from the mantle. I love our stockings. I made them myself. If you blow the picture up you can see that I cross-stitched our first initials on each stocking.


All of the grandkids on my mom's side of the family have a Christmas ornament theme. My theme is bears. Every year I would get a bear ornament from my parents and often I would get one from my grandparents too. My parents would often try to pick an ornament that related to something we did each year. For example, the year I went to Japan I got a bear on a paper crane. I love looking through my ornaments each Christmas. Here are all of my bears:

Our tree is decorated mostly with my bears. Kaylin's theme is angels, and she has a couple of ornaments of her own. Poor Eric just has some from work. I also put up small red and silver ball ornaments to fill in the gaps.


The tree looks a little crooked in the picture, but you can see that the window looks crooked too... don't worry Mom, my tree isn't crooked this year like it was last year :-). Also notice that the tree skirt matches our stockings. Love it!