I love the Christmas season, I mean who doesn't? These are a few of my favorite things...

1. Christmas Music
   
2. Wrapping Paper and Bows
3. My Church That Lights Up and Plays Music
4. Nativity Scenes
5. Christmas Eve Service at Church
6. Being on a Break from School (at least for one more year)
7. Picking out Toys for Kids on the Angel Tree
8. My Precious Golden in his Christmas Handkerchief
   
9. The Polar Express &
   
10. Just Relaxing with William and our Families
    

Will and I decided to try and not buy any new Christmas decorations this year since we really do not have anywhere to store them, and it will just be more to move in a few months, but I could help myself with making a new centerpiece that looked good with our Christmas China.
We are trying to accumulate the Lenox Holiday Platinum Christmas China. We love the simplicity of it, but the main reason was because our fine china is Lenox Platinum with accent plates. So, for now all we did was replace four of our accent plates with Christmas salad plates, and we had Christmas china out!

These are our stockings. I cannot wait until we have a mantle to put these on, but for now, the tv stand works pretty good!

A couple of years ago my grandparents got Will and I this beautiful nativity scene. We are hoping to add more pieces to it through the years.

Will and I were very lucky with a tree last year. We picked out a tree and it lasted and turned out perfect. Well this year we were even more lucky. Will's brother Chris was selling Christmas trees as fundraisers for Churches and other organizations. You pre-order these trees, for the same price as from Wal-Mart or Lowes, but they are cut on Wednesday and then you have them by Friday. So, they are so fresh and turned out absolutely beautiful!

Will and I do not have too many Christmas tree ornaments, so we know over the years we need to build up a bigger collection, especially some more colorful ornaments.

We got a new tree topper Angel this year, and I love that she lights up!

Overall, Will and I had a blast decorating for Christmas. We are so excited about all of our fun holiday plans, and most of all, our time we will spend relaxing with those we love. As Will was reminding us the other day, while there was a bit of stress about some holiday plans, Christmas is a season not a day! (His mom and I just sort of looked at him for this profound statement and started laughing, but we realized he was exactly right!)

I hope that everyone is having a great Holiday season, and I hope that we can all remember the beautiful gift that was given to us with Jesus' birth. Merry Christmas!