I know it’s a little late but the past two days have been crazy. I just wanted to drop in and say Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and was able to spend time reflecting on the great gift that is Jesus.
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Christmas Home Tour!
I’m a day late to this linkup party, (no surprise there), but that doesn’t make me any less excited for it! I’m so excited to show you guys our Christmas decorations! I have always loved decorating for Christmas. As a little girl I used to bother my mom all the time to start decorating. I just the different feel of the house with all of the Christmas decor out.
This year, as I’m sure a lot of you know, Tommy and I got to decorate our apartment for the first time as a married couple, so it was extra fun. We also got to pick out our own Christmas decorations (seeing as we had none before).
I love how wintery the mat and wreath give our doorstep.
This is the sight you see right when you walk in. We had extra Christmas balls and I just love how they look in the center of the coffee table with the pinecones.
This is the picture I shared in my post about our Christmas traditions on Tuesday. I just love our tree. We only have a few “real” ornaments but it’s been fun getting to build our collection. A lot of them are very special already as they say “Our First Christmas”, or represent who we are as a couple, such as shells because we love the beach.
I also love that little tree and snowman – I think they make that whole bookshelf.
This tablecloth to me is so festive and screams Christmas and winter.
And our new TV stand all dressed up for Christmas is just perfect. 🙂
Of course the apartment wouldn’t be complete without baby Jesus. 🙂
And an up close picture of my favorite Christmas decoration we bought so far. This little truck has so much character. I bought most of the decor at my favorite place in the world, Target, and it wasn’t really all that expensive either.
Tonight I am linking up with Victoria and Sarah for It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year linkup! Come join us!
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Our Christmas Traditions
You guys Christmas time is just such a wonderful time of year, am I right? The older I get the more I appreciate this time of year too. I just love the feeling in the air, the decorations everywhere you go, and the sound of Christmas music too. This year is Tommy and I’s first married Christmas and I am so excited about it. That means that we get to create our traditions this year, so this year might just be the most exciting one ever.
I’ve been thinking since we got married about traditions that I wanted to start with Tommy and eventually with our children when they come around. For Thanksgiving we always bake a pecan pie. We actually started that on our first Thanksgiving that we were ever together so it makes it even more special. We don’t have any Christmas traditions yet but that’s what this years for! These are the things that I want to do every year with Tommy and our future kiddies:
Decorate for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving: I honestly might debate doing this sooner if Tommy would let me. This year we tried to chop down our own tree – something that I had done in the past with my family, but ended up going to a place that didn’t have very nice trees so we ended up buying a pre-cut one. But it’s okay because the one we got is perfect.
Open one present on Christmas Eve: This is something that I always used to convince my mom to let my brother and I do, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. But this year we get to decide and I just know Tommy will be on board for this one.
Bake Christmas cookies: This is something that I have been doing for the past three years and am very excited to continue on with in our new apartment together now that we’re married.
Read the story of Jesus being born on Christmas morning before opening presents: This is not something that we have done yet, especially since we haven’t ever woken up together on Christmas yet. But this is something I am very excited about starting this year. I want to make sure that we keep our hearts in the right place and praise the one reason why we are even celebrating on this day, our Lord and Savior. I am especially excited to carry this tradition on with our kids when they come around!
Eat Homemade Cinnamon Rolls: This one I’ve seen on a few of my favorite bloggers as their Christmas tradition, (Victoria’s included), and I’ve loved this idea. What doesn’t sound better than having some yummy homemade cinnamon rolls on this exciting morning.
What are some of your Christmas traditions? Today I am linking up with Victoria and Sarah for It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year linkup! Come join us! 🙂
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December Goals
Hey. Hi. Hello. Let’s recap my November goals shall we? I did not do well at all but I honestly knew when I wrote them that I kind of overdid it this month.
Attend our new community group for the whole month. I’m gonna say we did this halfway. We went to two meetings, one was cancelled and one we skipped. But not bad.Read God’s word every day.- Workout in some way 2-3 times a week. Ha not even close.
Celebrate our first married Thanksgiving.- Redo the floors in my moms house. Decided to wait on this one till next year.
Go on our weekend getaway to Maryland!So much fun!Order our Christmas cards!Can’t wait to get these.Buy TV stand for living room.I have to post a picture of this. Tommy built it this week and it looks so good.Get back into reading, read one book.I guess we can count this although I only finished the book I was reading but whatev.- Stay off of social media on my phone. Nope. Also not even close.
Clean outclosets. Did one thanks to Tommy!- Blog once a week.
- Study 1 Corinthians w Tommy every week. We did one week. We’re so bad at sticking to things we say we’re going to do. Sad.
- Do our couples devotional once a week. Also nope. We need to get ourselves together. But we have been praying together before dinner consistently and that has been very nice.
Start Christmas shopping/make a budget for how much we can spend on gifts.Already have about half of my shopping done I think!- Continue taking at least a half an hour lunch at work. No, didn’t do this either. Wah.
Decorate for Christmas!YES and I’m so excited to show you guys all the decorations.Chop down our own Christmas tree.Nope but we did try so I’m counting this one as a yes. We went to a place to chop down your own trees but the trees sucked so we ended up buying one that was already cut. I need to do more research so we can do it next year. I was really looking forward to that.
I didn’t do quite as bad as I thought I did. But I’m a little disappointed because all of the harder goals were the ones I didn’t do. Oh well.
December goals!
I only have two for this month because I want to stay focused on my relationship with Jesus and growing that during advent.
- Complete the She Reads Truth Advent study.
- Rest. Well.
I have already started the Advent bible study and I’m super excited about it. It’s already shown me so many truths already. Maybe during the month I’ll share some things I’m learning. And for the second goal, I realized the past few months I’m overworking myself trying to be a good employee and also a good wife at home but I need to get better at giving myself breaks. I get burnt out very easily so I want to focus on avoiding that for the rest of the year.
What are your goals?
