It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

I love Christmas!  Love Love Love!  I started putting up my Christmas decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving and it has been a progress, but I think I am almost done (though it would help if I stopped looking at Pinterest and finding new ideas!).

It is a good thing I went to those photography lessons, am I right?  Sheesh!

This is my mantel area (in case you couldn't tell!).  I found the idea of the picture frames on another blog which pointed me to Pinterest (here: http://pinterest.com/pin/529050617/ and here: http://pinterest.com/pin/578485235/).  What a great way to remember the meaning of Christmas!  The nativity scene is from Waccamaw (oh how I miss Waccamaw).  Disregard the 4th wise man in the nativity...I am not sure why there are 4.  Maybe he is the innkeeper?  And of course my mom made the stockings for me and Allie (the dog)!

Random Christmas decorations in a chair.  I had the decorations, so I had to put them SOME where!

Here is my tree!  And look...two presents already wrapped!  Go me!

And this is a sneak peak of some of the Christmas presents i am making!  I took up knitting last year (thanks mom) and love it (I think I am on par with a record number of 'loves' in this blog post).  Last year I gave my friends cup coasters, and this year I am working on another homemade gift!

I do love Christmas and all that it means.  I love the birth of Jesus Christ.  I love spending time with my family.  I love giving presents (I particularly enjoy that at work we give Christmas presents to the Guardian ad Litem program and other organizations.

Merry Christmas!

Oh you can be sure this is NOT the last Christmas post!