'Unofficial' Holiday Home Tour

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with food, family, friends, fun and more food. I hope you ate so much food that you had to unbutton that top button of your pants. Well... I don't [hope] that per-say, but you know you had some good eats when you have to unbutton those pants!

Our Thanksgiving was quite quiet. No family [to far away] and no friends [they all traveled elsewhere] around, so it was just the 3 of us and it was perfect. No having to dress up, entertain or wonder what time we would be leaving [insert house here] so I could get home and unbutton the top button of my pants. It all involved lounging around in PJ's, munching... eating turkey, watching movies and decorating the Tree!

We dragged out our 7' 100%-fake tree and got to decorating. We have had this tree for 4yrs now. It's a pre-lit tree and well this year... something seemed different. Maybe it's because we are in our own home now and im just paying attention to these specific details a bit more, but it just wasn't looking like it's usual 'self'. It was looking more like a ::gasp:: Charlie Brown tree. -But none the less it was/is a tree and it works... well did. Once all the decorating was said and done, we sat down on the sofa and marveled at our beautiful 'spruce'. Then all of a sudden a patch of the lights went out. Luckily Josh found the bad one but than more quickly burnt right out.

But not to fret my blogging buddies, a quick trip to Lowe's and we were back in business and this time, better than ever!

Lola again... still trying to have her little 'Martha Stewart' moment. As you can see the Gold, Silver and Blue has paired nicely.

I was beginning to second guess myself because everywhere I looked. Magazines, internet, stores... I found nothing with this color combo and I was starting to think the reason why was because it looked like total doo-doo when paired together?

However that obviously isn't the case....

She is pretending to be looking at a Squirrel. Don't let her fool you ;)

Don't mind the mess... actually this is what our house typically looks like on any given day [...I know....]

We don't have a hall table yet for the entry way so this little Christmas tree will do the space just right for now :)

So that's what we have been up to. Gearing up for Christmas, especially with my family staying with us this Holiday season! The tree is my best part. I have missed having a real Christmas tree. The living room smells like pine now. Love it!