Decorating for Christmas

The Hume family has a history of decorating in overabundance for Christmas.  Mom had 5 trees in the house, all immaculately decorated.

I am following in that tradition.  We have 2 trees in our house this year.  I usually put all of the decorations up the day after Thanksgiving, but this year it took me a little longer.  One reason is that I had to work at 2am on the day after Thanksgiving, so I went home and slept for a while.  The other reason is that it was a little sad.  I thought about mom a lot while I was decorating.  So, I took it slow.  I put the tree up one day, but the lights up the next, put up some of the ornaments on another day....all in all, it took me about a week to do all of the decorating.

I bought a little 3.5' tree from Walmart, which is now the dogs' tree.  I get a new ornament for them every year, so this tree is full of their ornaments.  The only ornaments not pictured here on the tree are the 2 from this year.  They arrived this week and are now on the tree, so it looks a little different.  I might need to make a Christmas dog-themed skirt for this tree in the future!

These are the ornaments for the dogs this year.  My cousin Shelly made them from scratch!

We don't have a mantel anymore, so I hung the stockings from the movie shelf with care.

A wreath that I made, inspired from Pinterest.  I love that site!

I get a new ornament for Nick and I every year, as well.  I have usually put them in the garland on the mantel, but this year I bought some lighted garland and hung the ornaments from the garland on our Chinese screens.

And this is our big tree!  I am so glad that we went and spent money on good ornaments our first year of marriage.  I am always happy to put them on the tree!