It's hard to believe that Christmas is already over! So sad. Overall, it was the best Christmas yet... the first in our new house, and the last we'd spend just the two of us. (Well, the two of us and one very excited dog.) Here's a recap of how we decorated this year:
The first step was to decorate the outside of the house. We might have been a little excited. We might have been thinking about how we'd decorate for the past year. We might have driven through our neighborhood last year before we moved in to check out the competition. Shhhhh.
The next step was to decorate the inside of the house. This year, my approach was to try to make things look really festive, but to not spend a lot of money doing it. So I loaded up on ornaments and ribbon and went room to room adding little touches of red, green, silver, and white...
After putting up the tree (we're traditionalists and go real every year, and probably always will) the last step was to find a nice way to display the many wonderful Christmas cards sent to us from family and friends. After outgrowing a couple different locations, we finally settled on displaying them on the buffet in our dining room.
Up next... the food!