Joy of the Holidays!

The Holidays are here...I LOVE Christmas!!

it's magical...with lights, giving hearts..all coming together to celebrating JESUS! 

Decorations came out on Thanksgiving day...every year each of us get a new ornament, they are marked who's is who's, the year they were received and each year the tree gets fuller!!

Kids gather as we carefully unwrap each ornament, recalling sweet memories of the past! With 15 years of marriage and 4 children later, we have a sweet collection already. I adopted my sisters tradition on adding a special ornament each year. I remember sitting at my sister's house and seeing her tree filled with pretty ornaments, and thinking that it would take forever by the time our tree ever filled up...hahahaa we were only married for a year or 2! Oh how time flies...

This year as I was thinking that our tree was filled like my sister's years ago..she sent me a picture yesterday of her Beautiful tree this year!!! Yes, she gets me to dreaming once more on the next years to come with a fuller tree!!! I LOVE HER!! 

You want to see her tree don't you???

Well of course you do!!

It's dreamy isn't it?!! It's overflowing with pure goodness...OH SO PRETTY!! I'm sure once mine looks like this, she will have yet another thing I want...That's what us little sisters do!!! Hahaahaa

This year I went to Lowe's Christmas tree cutting area and picked up tons of fresh cut greens...

...they trim the bottoms off the tree when they re-cut them. They gladly let you take to your hearts content. I cut and soaked them good before I adding them in our home. I made a sweet garland for over my kitchen window with pine cones hanging down!  The rest I placed around the house and we get to enjoy the smell of fresh pine. 

It's feeling more like Christmas  around here!!

I love everything about this time of year...the wish lists came out before Thanksgiving was even over!!! I finished most of my shopping early this year,  for the first time!! I'm usually the one running to the stores and everything on everyone's wish lists are disappearing before my eyes...but not this year!!!

Oh the joy of the Holidays...what are your traditions? Do you collect a new ornament each year?

Enjoy this special time, as we once again gather with our LOVED ones to celebrate the true meaning ofChristmas!! Merry Christmas Everyone...

Love,
 Naomi