Our House at Christmastime

We've started to put up a few Christmas decorations around the house. The best part is putting them up and enjoying them for as long as possible (that's why we put them up so early this year). The worst part is taking them down and wondering...why did I put all this up? Each year I seem to collect more and more decorations (thanks Mom!). We hung our wreaths up outside already since we won't be here for Thanksgiving...we did it Saturday morning when it was about 20 degrees outside! Along with some Christmas deco pics, there are some pics below of our new bead board work that we had done is our guest bedroom and bathroom last spring. We also had crown molding put in our master (I don't think there are any pics of that).

"NOEL" in our formal living room

My favorite Santa pillow!

Our sideways tree! I can't figure out how to flip it

Our mantle with our new stockings that we'll have forever!

I thought this looked "Ski Lodgee"?? Its at the bottom of the stairs

Our guest bathroom and our new beadboard

Our guest bedroom and our new beadboard and our new chocolate brown paint!

November's here....and has been for a while!

This semester has gone by too fast! I can't believe it's already November. Only 25 more school days left 'til Christmas break...I can't wait! At the same time, I like the classes that I am teaching this semester, so I am hoping to get good students next year too! Andrew's fall season is over and he has been busy working in the office learning the ropes from Judi.

November has proven to be a busy month for both Andrew and I. He traveled to Florida for his last tournament and then I left for Nashville on a school trip with my club, DECA. Andrew leaves again next week to recruit...then later in the month, we are headed west to visit all our family in Memphis! Whew! It's been a while since we've been there are we are really excited to go and see everyone!

I can't wait to decorate for Christmas (my favorite holiday!) so I am thinking about getting started this weekend. I know...it's too early, but I figure, we arent' going to be here for Thanksgiving anyway, so I might as well go ahead and do it!

Well, that's the latest update (no pics this time...sorry) but as soon as we decorate, I will post some pics of that on here. Love to all!