Decorating for Christmas!

We found these two stockings two years ago, and they never fail to get us in the festive mood when I pull them out of our ornament box (note the box, singular--we don't go crazy on the decorations, but since we have an outside now, maybe we'll step it up...)

Our tree topper! Love it so.

I made Jesse hold up every tree they had in the 'smells best' section of trees. We picked smell over needle strength, so I'm sure it will start shedding needles soon. I'm ok with shedding now :)

We found this boxwood wreath for sale a few weeks ago and it was too pretty to put outside:

Holiday cards are the best decorations for our mantle:

Seeing how close she can get:

After playing in the snow! 

A weekend in December

Lots of walking at Hooper (Pippa is loving the free reign of the greene):

 An attempt from our christmas card photo:

and another reason I am loving 5th grade...I get to read pieces such as this: