Show us Your Life-Christmas Trees

Welcome to our home. I am so excited that you decided to drop by. I would love to fix you a hot, steamy cup of cider and show you my Christmas trees for reals....but instead, I'll try to show you in pictures. May the blessing of the Lord be yours this Christmas!

This is our "Family" tree. It is always the last thing we decorate each year. It doesn't really have a theme but each ornament has a story and it is fun to hear the laughter and the stories as each one is hung.

My parents brought me the wide tulle like ribbon from Canton and I just love it!!!!

Every year I try to add an ornament that best represents our family (this year it was an ornament from our trip to St. John) and one for each of our daughters to capture their year.

Rachel is our walking miracle. It is hard for me to believe that her brain surgery was just one week ago. We set out yesterday to find the perfect ornament. Miss Casey's, an awesome Christmas store, had the perfect one. It is pink just like the "praying for Rachel" bracelets we had made and they personalized it to say, "With God Miracles Happen. Psalm 126:3 Rachel 2009."

Hannah is playing junior high basketball this year. She has scored a total of 39 points in 3 games so we had to go with a basketball!

I saved baby shoes from my girls and put them on the tree every year. I even saved the "Nestles" baby hair gel bottle and hang it with a ribbon on the tree every year:

This is another tabletop tree in our family room. Once upon a time, Mom and I made crafts for area craft shows. My dad and Mr. Incredible built the wooden boxes, and Mom and I painted them and added dried fruits and nests, ribbons, stars, and lights.

This is another tree from our craft show days. I added gingerbread people and placed it on our kitchen table:

This is another small tabletop tree on our bar/eating area in the kitchen. I gave an easy tutorial here last year.

This is my Texas tree that sits on my kitchen island~thanks Mom and Dad! They bought it at Canton, Texas several years ago. I had a USA tub that seems to hold it perfectly:

This is our living room tree. This room is in all neutrals, so I decorated this tree with creams, whites, silver, and gold:

I like these little birdies...I always think of Nester when I put them on the tree (and I don't even know her in real life....blog land is so much fun!)

This is a fun tree in the gameroom:

The girls painted these little wooden ornaments years ago:

This is Rachel's tree (another tree from the Sunday House in Canton, TX) and Kelly, she leaves this up year around:

(I just realized Hannah did not put up her tree this year)

This is in my entry way. It is a topiary tree from Hobby Lobby that I normally have in my kitchen but I add red sprigs to it and use it on my entry-way table:

Almost finished. Are you still with me?

These are our outside trees. I found the gold ornament trees at Lowes this year, had Mr. Incredible help me put them in my black pots, and placed them on the porch. I left the dirt in my pots and everything.

I really like how they add some glitz to the front porch:

Whew! That is all. Thank you for stopping by my little corner of the world today! I am looking forward to seeing your Christmas trees too.

Now, go visit Kelly's Korner to see incredible Christmas trees!