Our 2020 Christmas Tree

This year I managed to be the worst blogger I’ve ever been. But I won’t scold myself because this year was rough and honestly, I just did not have the willpower to give attention to my blog. Do I have things that I wish that I had blogged? Yes. Will I get around to sharing it? I really hope so. The thought of a year void of memories on this blog makes me a little sad. One thing I did tell myself is that I have to document our Christmas tree. Why? Because when all else failed I always, always shared our Christmas tree and I can’t allow this year to be the year I don’t. So I haven’t been a great blogger at all this year but here’s our Christmas tree + a few extras because once I'm in the mood to take pictures I can't help myself, haha.

Scenes from Christmas week 2019

I absolutely loved the way that Christmas fell on a Wednesday this year. Sean and I were able to do our Christmas Eve tradition at home AND wake up in our own house on Christmas Day. Now, I don’t think I’ll enjoy Christmas any other way. And then on Friday after work we drove to Sean’s hometown to do Christmas with his family for the weekend.

Our Christmas Eve tradition is my absolute favorite and if we could always do it at home that would be ideal. We are let out of work early on Christmas Eve so I rush to get home and do any last minute wrapping of gifts and then by the time Sean gets home we are ready to order Chinese food for dinner. Although this time, Sean was out early too so we went to a local bar and had a few drinks before our Christmas Eve tradition.

Our tradition consists of us choosing our favorite bottle of wine, making the first fire of the season in the fireplace, opening our stocking gifts (my favorite!) with Christmas music playing in the background. After we eat we watch two or three of our favorite Christmas movies. Although Sean was a bit Christmas movie(d) out after two movies so we ended up watching Jack Ryan on Prime. SO GOOD.

Izabella enjoying her new bed.



The dogs get new beds for Christmas every year and I think these ones are their favorite by far.

On Christmas Day we woke up slowly and made French press coffee and breakfast sandwiches. We binged watched Jack Ryan and had such a relaxing day. For dinner we used our instant pot for the first time and made this chicken and potato dish which was absolutely delicious! We actually made the dish again two weeks ago; it’s that good.

This is how our Christmas tree looked on Christmas Day (even after we had exchanged gifts)
since we hadn't yet offloaded Christmas gifts.

The following day (Thursday) we were back to work and to be honest I didn't hate returning to work. It was really nice to have a break midweek.

Like I mentioned above, after work on Friday we headed to Sean’s hometown. We enjoyed some family time which involved more Christmas movies and opening of gifts. For dinner we went to House of Pizza and Sean’s nephew was our server which was cute.

I ended up not even bringing my camera that weekend and ended up only taking one picture that day. Very unlike me. It was a great Christmas week and the older I get I see that all I really need in life is God, family, happiness and love.

I know I’m super, duper late but I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!

Our 2019 Christmas Home

Man, did the holidays sneak up on us, or what? I know I say this every year but the time just moves faster as we get older. I know this isn’t fact but man it sure feels like it.

Our Christmas décor mainly stays the same each year except for a new ornament each year. This year our new ornaments were a nutcracker and one that Sean picked up in Texas earlier this year while he was on a work trip. We normally just do one new ornament a year (usually from somewhere we traveled) but two is better, ha. We do try to do a new color schemed tree each year which is pretty fun to me. In 2014, Cinthia, Margaret and I went ornament shopping after the holidays and got tons of different colored ornaments for so cheap. So cheap that it almost felt like we stole it. I assure you that we did not. Anyway, because of this, Sean and I have been able to have a different color schemed tree ever since and it has been awesome to think up a new color scheme each year. We still always put our yearly ornaments on the tree regardless of the color scheme.

We also picked up stocking holders this year after years of trying to get those useless command strips to work for us. Not sure why we hadn’t thought to do this until this year but it will save us time and money so better late than never. And for the first time celebrating Christmas in this house, our stockings have not fallen and we are able to actually stuff items in it; win, win!

Alright, enough of all my mumbo jumbo. Here’s some pictures!











































I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
Ahhh, one more sleep til Christmas! ♥