There is so much Christmas going on in this house, that I decided to split the posts up into 2.

I'll start with the kids' big tree. Its the only tree that I really didn't change that much this year, altho now I'm thinking that some purple garland will look fabulous!

Here's Reagan's tree again, with the tree skirt! Oh and more lights! Yea, I found a strand of pink lights that were begging to be added to her tree. I have a sickness. I can't seem to stop altering my trees after they're 'done'.

And here's the boys' tree. They helped decorate it, and it fits their room perfectly. There are two strands of colored lights on the tree. One blue and one green, plus the white lights that came on the tree. This tree puts off a lot of light!

 Harrison helped me hang ornaments. He's got ornaments hung off of other ornaments. At least they're both lightweight. Their tree topper is also one of Harrison's creations.

 Most of the tree is filled with shatterproof ornaments from Walmart. A necessity with these guys.

Harrison is making sure the tree is just right. I think it passed muster.

This is what happens when you take pictures of boys. They want to pose for a picture and then they won't sit nicely. Oh well. They're still cute.

If you talk to my hubs, he'll tell you I have a sickness when it comes to Christmas and decorating for it. Luckily, I usually ignore him and his quips. I do what I want - usually.  When it comes to buying another Christmas tree, I talk to him. He gets funny about how much Christmas crap we have to store. So this year when I started talking about getting Reagan's tree, I wasn't asking. She was going to get a tree, my dear sweet hubs knew this and didn't even bat an eyelash about it. He's so wonderful. Nope, what I talked to him about was the color of the tree. You see, I had talked to my mom and sister about my idea and they hated it. I didn't much care for their opinion. It obvious that they didn't see my vision, so I talked to hubby about it and he liked my idea! I don't know if he actually liked my idea or if he was just telling me he liked my idea, but either way it bolstered my resolve enough to actually go out and buy the black Christmas tree I had envisioned for Rae's room.

Yep, I said black. I'm so glad I went with the black tree too, because I don't think her Christmas tree would look this amazing with a green, white or pink tree.

About half of the ornaments on this tree were made by us, but the filler ornaments are just some shatterproof numbers from Walmart. You know the kind that you get 24 for $5 or so.

Here's some more decomesh with an ostrich feather center. Love this as the tree topper!

The glittered ornaments were inspired by this {PIN} and I really love the look! I also love that they don't shed glitter like so many of my other ornaments.


The sled ornaments are adorable and really work with the tree. And the larger ornaments are also Walmart specials.



What I don't have a picture of is her completed tree skirt. I had some left over eyelet fabric from when we did her room, so I just whipped up a ruffled 18" tree skirt. Unfortunately she's sleeping and I'm not about to disturb a sleeping baby. Hopefully for the Open House pictures I can snag a quick picture of it.

What is it that when you bust out certain materials the creativity just seems to pour out of you in a great river? The popsicle sled ornaments from a few days ago spurred such an occurrence.

Harrison was playing with some of the sticks, before I let him have the glue and he created this simple snowflake. Its so small and sweet, just like Harrison ....... when he's sleeping. I wanted to make more. So I busted out some larger snowflakes - not knowing what the crap I was going to do with them. Everyone does that right? Make something or several somethings without fully knowing just how they're going to get used? I can't be alone in this.

Well after all the snowflakes were dry, I decided they needed something. Out came the same gold GlitterBlast from the paper dahlias. Seriously, love this stuff!

 Trying to capture the glittery goodness of these things is hard!



Then my snowflakes sat on my dining room table for a bit. We had Thanksgiving dinner in our kitchen, because the snowflakes were on the dining room table - waiting. Then I got inspired. I was perusing HGTV.com and their plethora of design ideas for Christmas and I was struck by lightening. I knew exactly what I was going to do with my giant snow flakes.

So how do you like them now? I love them! I love my mantle this Christmas. I love everything about it. Do you?

I guess its about time I got to showing off the rest of the Christmas decor. Get ready!