Christmas Time!

Our Christmas tree is up and it looks beautiful! I'm in love with the Christmas season. I love how it brings family together and people decorate their houses so beautifully.

Our Christmas Tree - 2015

One of my favorite traditions that Andy and I started when we had our first Christmas together (not married -- this is our first married Christmas!!) was exchanging ornaments to help make our tree special. Our first Christmas, we exchanged ornaments every day of December - adding a total of 50 ornaments to our tree. Our second Christmas we ended up doing the 12 days of Christmas, adding another 24 memories to our tree. This year, we are just going to exchange them randomly to each other throughout the month of December. I know that once Hudson is born, this will be a tradition that we continue with him as well.

We had a great time on Monday night making a gingerbread house together - which is another thing we do every Christmas. Andy's creative side always comes out! <3

Always fun to make gingerbread houses and eat milk and cookies while watching Elf next to our beautiful lit up Christmas tree!!! Andy put up the lights on our house the other night also - so it makes me happy when it starts to get dark outside and the lights pop on. We went on a walk around the neighborhood the other day with Loui dog and got to see all the Christmas trees lit up and the lights on the houses - truly the best time of the year!!

A work in progress!

Our Completed Gingerbread House!