Christmastime is here...

As promised, here is a little tour of our house all ready for Christmas!!

That's a wrap!

Yesterday I finally got around to wrapping some of my Christmas presents while Hunter and Sadie were napping...which was a huge relief since Christmas is less than 10 days away!! Where did December go?!  (or October and November for that matter;)

So I thought I would share a few pics of the different wrappings that I chose this year:


In order to get my creative wrapping juices flowing, I have to set out all my paper, ribbon, boxes, and embellishments so that they are easily accessible...

I love using little birds, leaves, and glittery berries on my gifts...and a pretty deck of cards from the dollar bin at Michaels is serving a new purpose as gift tags for my packages:)

I picked up a GIANT bolt of lace at a flea market a few months ago for 50 CENTS!!!! So I thought I would mix it up a bit and use some lace this year...

In order to soften the look of the pine cones and cinnamon, I lightly brushed some white paint onto the edges...it almost looks like freshly fallen snow...

I used a white paint pen to write names directly onto my packages...which I wrapped in brown postal paper...

I did the same thing for a few of Mike's gifts...which had quite a few more berries on them prior to Sadie munching them all off...

And of course, Hunter's big gift this year...

Come back tomorrow for a massive Christmas decor post=))


Hope everyone is having a WONDERFUL Thursday!!

Deck the Halls...redneck style!

(Nicole...this post is for you=)


This past weekend we went on a little family scavenger hunt for the perfect Christmas tree...
and although we are generally very decisive people...picking out a tree is a whole other story, we hem and haw like it is the last tree we will ever buy...ones too short, ones too tall, all of them are too fat and round (when did Christmas trees make the shift to Christmas bushes with pointy tops?)


but alas, we did pick one out...a nice 5 footer, which now stands proud at about 4 feet since Mike kept trimming the bottom like a bad haircut :) 


ANNNYWAY...here are some shots from the hunt:

Little man got the best seat in the house...snuggled up with mom...

Sadie and Dad led the procession:

We made our selection...finally...

Sadie trying to give kisses to her bro...

Dad did the hard work...with a smile;)

After we loaded up the tree and had some coke and popcorn...we headed home to decorate...

As many of you know, we have a den in our house, where all things woodsy and rustic reign supreme...so we put our real tree in the den, and deck it out redneck style=)

Here is Hunter's first ornament...(we just bought the plain "bear crossing" and I added the words with a paint pen;)

Every year we take a sliver from the base of the tree to have as a keepsake:

Who needs a star on top...when you can have a pheasant?!

Of course...no redneck tree is complete without shotgun shell lights!!

Sadie's ornament:

There you have it! Our halls are decked=) 


Come back soon to see pictures of the rest of our Christmas decor...the not-so-rednecky stuff=)