It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

For the few people that read our blog that are not related to us, let me go ahead and apologize up front for this post. I am writing this post for our families. They have all wanted to see our house decorated for Christmas, but nobody is going to be able to travel this way. So.....enter a very self-indulgent blog full of pictures of my house all decked out! Sorry!

Here is a picture of our cozy little home from the outside. Check out all that snow!



Had to include this one......even Hairy Dawg is in the Christmas Spirit!



This picture is going to take some explainin' This is my "sentimental" tree. I am married to possibly the world's most traditional man. Let me share an example with you... every year Matt's family put up the same angel on their Christmas tree. When Matt was in high school, his mom decided it was time for a new angel, so she purchased a beautiful one, I am sure, but you see I have never seen this angel. When Matt came home and found a new angel on the family tree....let's just say he was not happy! "Christmas is just not Christmas without that angel!!!" Well look closely at this tree....look where the angel is now! When the time came to buy the angel for our Christmas tree that first year we were married - it was AWFUL! I almost made myself sick because I knew I had to choose wisely because the angel I bought that year would follow me to my grave!!!!

This tree is also sentimental for other reasons: the lights and garland are from Matt's mom and dad's first Christmas tree, all of the ornaments were handmade by Davis at school, and under the tree is a Radio Flyer Rocket that Davis got his first Christmas. The tree skirt is a new sentiment as well. I could not find that perfect tree skirt for this tree but knew I needed one quick because we have some very special friends coming to visit next week SO I went to the fabric store, chose some fabric, shipped it to my mom, she sewed a tree skirt in record time and shipped it back! YAY US Postal Service!



The infamous Georgia Tree! Davis decorated this tree all by himself this year! He did a great job, too!



This is the newest tree to the Scott home. This past summer, Davis moved into the big world of Bunk Beds. We allowed him to choose his bed and the bedding. Not much of a surprise that he went with Star Wars. This is the beginnings of a Star Wars tree. Pretty sad.....it has only one ornament, BUT check out R2 in the Santa hat!



This is the tree in our bedroom. Nothing particularly special or sentimental here, just needed a tree in every window! BUT check out those Santa's under the tree. My mother-in-law collects these Santas (woof-n-poof) and every year I comment on how cute they are! Look what I got for Christmas last year! Musical Woof-N-Poof Santas!



The next two pictures are of our kitchen. We keep our Snow Village up all year above the cabinets, and just like my post from the other day about Christmas music, there are lots of days Matt comes home from work throughout the year to find the Snow Village plugged in! Can you tell I kind of enjoy Christmas? The second picture is of a little tree on the counter that has tiny kitchen utensil ornaments on it





The next picture is of what I usually put on our mantle, but this is Davis' first Christmas without a fireplace. Insert a sad face! But I just could not stand the thought of not putting these pictures out, so we put them on our dining room table. These are Davis' yearly picture with Santa. The first and second are my personal favorites. That first year we could not get him to look at the camera, he was way to interested in Santa. The second year is that terrified, screaming for mommy picture! You gotta love that!



These final pictures are of our main tree in the living room. This is the tree Santa comes to and also the tree with all the gifts. We love having a live tree, and you all know that every year there is a story to picking out our live tree. Nothing beats the year that we went to the tree farm and cut down our tree, but true to form, there was a story this year as well. We just went to a little market close to our house, nothing fancy, but I would not let Matt drive my car. We had just gotten it out of the shop from our little "wreck" and I just did not want to scratch it up, so we took Matt's work car. Probably not the smartest thing to take a Camry to buy a tree, but we did. We picked out a tree, tied it to the top and began the drive home. Well, the tree started slipping and I just casually said "Davis you need to pray we get this tree home" I never thought of it again until we were at the dentist. The hygenist that was cleaning Davis' teeth said "Do you have your tree up yet?" Davis replied "Yes mam, we do. I had to pray that God would let us get it home. So you see, prayer works!" Davis decided to witness to the dental staff! He is his father's child!



This is the rocky horse that Santa brought to Davis his very first Christmas.



This is the rocker fire truck that we gave Davis on his first birthday. Old Santa is in there, and there are presents in the back



Sorry for the picture overload! There is actually one more tree in the bathroom, but I forgot to take pictures of it and I think I am at my limit! I will upload that tree next time!

Merry Christmas!