Christmas is Officially Here!

Well, I'm a few days late posting this. I meant to post it on December 1st, but I got busy with school projects and other things. Anyways, the Christmas season has officially started as of December 1st! The Christmas music, decorating, baking, shopping, wrapping, partying and all of the other things associated with the Christmas season can begin. I've already began listening to Christmas music on Pandora, and have thoroughly enjoyed it so far. I'm not sick of it yet, just some songs.

The decorating will begin when I get home on Wednesday. I get to decorate two houses this year - mom and dad's house and my granny's house. I'm super excited. I've got exciting ideas for both houses. I really wanna put lights up on both houses as well. Maybe I can talk my lovely husband in to.

The baking will also come when I get home. I've found a ton of cute recipes and cookie ideas off Pinterest that I'm really excited to try. I can't wait to bake cookies on Christmas Eve with all of the family around.

I've already started on my Christmas shopping. So far the only person that everything's bought for except for stocking stuffers is my husband, Josh. For my mom, I've got one thing almost finished. After Christmas, I'll put pictures up of it. My brother and dad on the other hand are a different story. I have some stocking stuffers for each person, but I still need to get more. So, hopefully, over the next two weeks, I'll have all the shopping done. The next part is the wrapping of the presents and the stuffing of the stuffers in the stockings. The stockings won't get stuffed to Christmas eve so nobody will peek. The wrapping will get done as I get the gifts and as long as the person isn't around.

But in spite of all the great and fun things Christmas brings about, we all need to remember the real reason for the season. We need to remember Christ's birth for this began the redemption and salvation plan for all of mankind. Keep CHRIST in CHRISTMAS!

Starting Christmas Early

It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but I've already started on my Christmas gifts and decorations for this year. I'm super excited about Christmas this year...all aspects of it. This is Josh and I's first Christmas married, so it makes it even special for the two of us even if it is our 5th Christmas together.

For the past 2 Christmases, Josh and I have decided on a theme for our Christmas tree. The first year's Christmas tree was a teal blue and silver. It was gorgeous! It's by far one of my favorites ever! A picture is below.

Last year, our Christmas tree was purple and silver. It wasn't nearly as pretty as I had pictured it turning out, but it was still very pretty. I think the purple was too dark. Picture below. 

This year's theme for our Christmas tree is going to be homemade. I'm ambitiously going to make most of the decorations for this year's Christmas tree along with other decorations for our house. I'm also going to attempt baking as well, so this Christmas is going to be super busy but so full of memories! 

I've already started on one project which is Josh's 25 Day Christmas countdown. I think he's going to love it! I'm also starting on a couple of ornaments for our tree! I'm going this weekend to get more stuff for ornaments and some other projects! I'm super excited to be getting started this early so hopefully, I'll be able to enjoy the month of December or at least most of it.