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Showing posts with label Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trees. Show all posts
Friday, December 3, 2010
Monday, December 7, 2009
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I love Christmas. It is my favorite time of the year. I love the music, the lights, the gifts, the trees, the snow... I even don't mind the shopping, to a point. I just think Christmas - for me at least - holds so many traditions, things that have stuck in the family long after other traditions have fallen by the wayside. This year is our first Christmas in our home & I could not wait to start decorating. The week before Thanksgiving, I was ready.
Thanksgiving night, at midnight, I headed to the outlets in Kittery with my aunt. We got there right at midnight & shopped until around 4am. I got just about all of my Christmas shopping done. When I got home at 4:30, I figured why bother going to bed? So I headed out to Target and WalMart. By the time I got back home again a little before 8, I was pretty much finished with shopping. I had a few things to order on Kohl's online and a few gift cards to pick up, but that was that! Easy as pie!:) I spent most of Black Friday in front of the TV watching Christmas movies & wrapping gifts while recovering from basically pulling an all-nighter. Over the weekend, I did most of the decorating as well.
My mom really wanted to decorate my bay window this year, so she & my daddy came over during the week to get the window set. I still need to add a few finishing touches before I can post pictures of that. I like it though. Very cute:).
We had to wait until this past weekend to get our tree. Every year we cut down our tree at the Ingraham Christmas Tree Farm in West Newbury or Georgetown or Amesbury - somewhere around there. The weekend after Thanksgiving, my dad had to work so we waited until this weekend to go & get the tree. Of course, last weekend the weather was beautiful and 60 & this weekend it was pouring & freezing with a snowstorm on the way. On Saturday we had to meet with our wedding photographers in the early afternoon so Christmas tree finding was put off until around 3... and by the time we go to the tree farm, it was closed. I was very sad that we didn't get to cut down our tree this year, but we still found an adorable little tree at the garden shop at Hilltop. Since we've determined the sunroom to be our Christmas Winter Wonderland, the tree had to be a little shorter than usual. Lucky for us, the one we picked out was the PERFECT height.
We put lights on the tree & decorated it with all of our ornaments & proceeded to decorate the whole room. I love it. :)
Thanksgiving night, at midnight, I headed to the outlets in Kittery with my aunt. We got there right at midnight & shopped until around 4am. I got just about all of my Christmas shopping done. When I got home at 4:30, I figured why bother going to bed? So I headed out to Target and WalMart. By the time I got back home again a little before 8, I was pretty much finished with shopping. I had a few things to order on Kohl's online and a few gift cards to pick up, but that was that! Easy as pie!:) I spent most of Black Friday in front of the TV watching Christmas movies & wrapping gifts while recovering from basically pulling an all-nighter. Over the weekend, I did most of the decorating as well.
My mom really wanted to decorate my bay window this year, so she & my daddy came over during the week to get the window set. I still need to add a few finishing touches before I can post pictures of that. I like it though. Very cute:).
We had to wait until this past weekend to get our tree. Every year we cut down our tree at the Ingraham Christmas Tree Farm in West Newbury or Georgetown or Amesbury - somewhere around there. The weekend after Thanksgiving, my dad had to work so we waited until this weekend to go & get the tree. Of course, last weekend the weather was beautiful and 60 & this weekend it was pouring & freezing with a snowstorm on the way. On Saturday we had to meet with our wedding photographers in the early afternoon so Christmas tree finding was put off until around 3... and by the time we go to the tree farm, it was closed. I was very sad that we didn't get to cut down our tree this year, but we still found an adorable little tree at the garden shop at Hilltop. Since we've determined the sunroom to be our Christmas Winter Wonderland, the tree had to be a little shorter than usual. Lucky for us, the one we picked out was the PERFECT height.
We put lights on the tree & decorated it with all of our ornaments & proceeded to decorate the whole room. I love it. :)
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