I love the Christmas season! It’s coupled with the end of the year, the cooler weather, and there’s some magic in the air that tends to make people more positive, more loveable and in general nicer to be around. It’s a time for family gathering, for lots of cooking and eating favorite foods, gingerbread lattes from Starbucks, vacation time, presents and oh yes my absolute favorite decking the halls.

And this season begins the weekend after the Halloween Party. It all starts by taking all the Halloween decor down and the First tree up is always Carolina’s, this usually happens before thanksgiving sometime in that first week of November. (Yes! that early!).

I’m just going to tell the rest of the story with pictures and captions…

Then along comes the week of Thanksgiving break. My first highlight is drinking my 1st cup of gingerbread latte in the nice red holiday festive red cups!

Then usually putting our gingerbread house together comes next, this year we had some help our friend’s daughters, so all three girls helped in the process of decorating and eating an occasional candy here and there too, they are quite sneaky!  The rest can be told in pictures…

The tree in the livingroom gets decorated the day of Thanksgiving and is only decorated with red and gold

And then the grand finale is our big tree in the foyer, this is my favorite of them all, not only because it’s HUGE, but because it has special ornaments from around the world, some from my travels, some as gifts from others travels and special ornaments we’ve found over the years. I at least add 1 ornament a year to it, so you can imagine how full it gets!

And not only do we decorate our trees inside, we also put ornaments on the trees outside, along with the reindeer, moose and snowman that light up our garden and the icicles lights from the roof and the decorated front door windows with  jelly stickers that reflect Christmas and winter motives.

So yes our house completely transforms for Christmas starting in Early November and goes all the way until after Reyes 🙂