Christmas at the Cooks'

Our house is Christmasified. As Christmasified as it's going to get. My decorations aren't anything spectacular--mostly handmade or hand-me-downs. It's only our second Christmas married, so we haven't started to really add to our decorations. I'm hoping to hit Hobby Lobby and Target with my mom the day after Christmas to add to my stash. I just haven't told her that yet.

But, little bit that it is, I welcome you to our sweet little house. If you were here for real, I'd offer you some World Market peppermint coffee with peppermint mocha creamer. We could sit on the sofa and watch Christmas movies (you can choose--classics like White Christmas or It's a Wonderful Life...or maybe Elf...or we can just turn on ABC Family or the Hallmark Channel, as I have done all weekend long). I'd love to offer you some of the goodies one of our Sunday School students gave us this morning, but I'm afraid I ate most of them this afternoon. I got a little stressed after an exhausting incident with some gingerbread...and consoled myself with chocolate in the wake of the aftermath. But enough about that, let's begin our tour.

The living room:

In the living room, we have our sweet little tree:

And the shelves all decked out with extra ornaments (I'm down to one empty frame...I'll get it filled eventually)

And my sweet Great-Grandma Doe's nativity set. This is one of my favorite pieces, it means so much to me to have my grandma's nativity. I think it's just the sweetest.

Our curtains are decked out with their very own Merry Christmas banner

And the shelves are proclaiming JOY

Up on the top, you can see our sweet cookie sheet NOEL sign (and my uneven paint strokes)

On in the kitchen you can see our SNOW banners attached to candle holders

And my beautiful wintery flowers from Kroger. Kroger has the best floral department in town. I seriously love it.

And finally, the real reason for the season.