Christmas Decorations

After a wonderful Thanksgiving at Bump's brother's house we decided to get busy and decorate our house for Christmas! I had a specific look in mind and wanted to keep with the age and style of the house. It is simple, but we love it and have had good comments from neighbors.

We put garland all around our new fence (you can't have a picket fence without decorating it can you?) and a few bows for color. We hung wreaths with bright red bows on all the windows except the bay with the Christmas tree. And our Christmas lights consist only of candles in each window. We fell in love with this look while we lived in Vermont and decided that our house was just made for the Vermont look. We might still do a bit of tweeking, but we are really happy with how it turned out.


We also had the chance this year to put up our Dept 56 Dicken's Village. This has been a collection started by Bump's parents and they handed it down to us to continue. We add a new piece each year. This is the first year we have been able to put it up since we had kids. The kids just love to look at the lights and all the little people and to watch the skaters on the pond. It's a fun thing to have and we were really excited to finally put it up.


Our stocking are hung and the tree is decorated - well sometimes the tree is decorated - I have to re-decorate it every day as the kids pull each ornament off and I find them all over the house. But, we are still loving our old house and it's so fun to have it decorated for the holidays!! Merry Christmas everyone!