Well, despite the fact that the tree has already started to turn brown and die, the cheer continues. I thought I would put up a couple more pictures of decorations!

We don’t have a mantel in this house so we are trying to warm up the stairway and have a place for the stockings to hang!

this was hard to photograph but these are small wooden snowflakes that my sweet friend Annie O’Leary sent me for Christmas last yr and said they were for our windows in Switzerland. Little did she know we would have walls of windows and they would fit in perfectly!

This is a happy pot of paperwhites that is now residing on my kitchen ledge! My mom surprised us and sent them as an early Christmas gift. For those of you that don’t know, we gave out paperwhite bulbs as our wedding favor when we got married almost 5 yrs ago! We are watching them grow daily!

Seth’s co-workers now hate him because he has been getting the most packages! Gotta love family and Amazon.  We are so spoiled!

This isn’t a great picture but you can get the idea. I used this thrifted old mesh door to display our Christmas cards from the yrs past. We are waiting to add this yrs when it arrives!

sorry, random pictures of the top of our armoire…again trying to find “mantel” spaces . I put the second picture in so you can see the carved “Joy to the World” from my dad. He carved it a few yrs back for us and it has made our home feel like home during the holidays since! We had one in our house from his parents when I was growing up!

And oh yes, the snow! and snow babies. They love it!