Cheap like a $2-Dolla....

I have finally found the 3 main colors that will be the 'theme' of this years Christmas Tree. Years before I have always been the one to buy a bunch of random plastic Christmas Balls, plastic ornaments made up of penguins, gingerbread cookies and coca-cola santa's, and just kind of thrown them about the tree in one giant ornament explosion.

Nothing wrong with that but this year my friends.... THIS YEAR is a very special year for us over here at La-Casa de M. -I know your just busting at the seams wondering what could be so special about this year right!?

And no... im not making any kind of 'Pregnancy Announcement' [you would be surprised how many people's eyes light up whenever the words 'Guess what!?' pop out of my mouth... 'YOUR PREGGO!'... no..... at least I hope not ha!]

No... this year my Parents and my Sister and nephews are coming down here to spend Christmas. The whole entire family! As you could have guessed in my last post and 'taken a hint' of our life... I haven't seen my family a whole lot. My sister alone I have only seen once in the past 10yrs. She was serving in the Navy and me being in the Air Force, we have always been worlds apart. The last time I saw my 9YR OLD NEPHEW was when he was 3 [ sad-face ]. I also have a 2.5yr old nephew [who I have not met yet].

So that my friends is why this Christmas is very special for us. Especially for me. I have been away from my family for so many years that when we do see each other we cherish those moments because they are gone before you know it and who knows when the next time our lives will bring us together again...

Okay enough of the family-mushiness. On with the original point of this post [I tend to get scatter brained sometimes. Today is Thursday and because we are off from work I keep thinking it's Saturday... oy...].

Blue. A nice soft blue. Not to dark and not to light. I love the shape of this. It's almost like a snowflake made sweet love to a flower. Doesn't it!?

Nice soft golds. Not to bling-bling-idy, just right. This is a flower of some sort with a smaller flower in the center.

Silvers. You can't have a Christmas without silver. especially for me... It reminds me of snow. I'm one of the few human beings in the world that actually like snow. Sucky for me I live in Florida... but I grew up in New England and this little silver gem reminds me of a cold-brisk Christmas day. Snow on the ground beaming sparkles from the sun all over the place. Beautiful.

Want to know the best part? I got these little beauties at the Dollar Tree. FOR $1.00 each. I'm tellin' ya... the DT is coming up with the times. Their selection for Christmas decor seems to get larger and larger every year and their colors this year are pretty much 'night and day' compared to what they have had previous years.

Don't be hatin' on the DT either. With a 2yr old running around [and with another 2yr old joining the ranks this Christmas with the major family visit] I can't afford to go and buy expensive decorative ornaments C/O Martha Stewart and Hallmark.

I learned my lesson when Josh and I owned 2 cats [before we had children]. I won't even get into specifics but put two young cats [brothers], Christmas lights, dangly [haha dangly] things and a frilly, pokey, fuzy tree and well... you do the math.

So how bout you? What is your color theme this year? [assuming you are weird like me and obsess about color themes].

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