Christmas--my FAVORITE time for decorating!

Not much to say this time...I'm EXHAUSTED from cooking, cleaning and DECORATING!  All 50+ boxes are unpacked and I got 2 big trees up, plus one for each bedroom (the kids decorate their own!).

 Elfie Angel Snowflake made her return trip this year bringing the advent of Christmas books--there are at least 24+!  We do a welcome back breakfast for her.  She also brought along 2 other elves that were mine as a child!  The kids decided that they are Elfie's cousins.  I told them that she needed help to watch their behavior.

  

 
I had a lot of help with the big tree!

 My main theme is Santa, and my collection grows every year, they exploded all over the book shelves.

On the bar, I keep a collection 
with a tiny picture frame each 
year. 

 I made this advent calendar and it lines the stairway, along with Christmas cards.  My friend Michelle gave me a GREAT idea that the child who has the best behavior each day gets to open the prize for the day (some are to share, some are good deeds to do, activities, etc)

 

 Here are the 2 trees.  One is 9 feet tall and mostly RED.  The other is in our front window, it's more formal (all the nice ornaments go over the carpet), shorter and all white and silver.  The kids love the train that winds around it.