Livin' La Vida Lonergan: Christmas Tree Decorating!

Yes, it's our first Christmas together as a married couple! And, it will be our first Christmas that we actually spend Christmas Eve and Christmas day together, too! I'm so happy that we'll actually get to share this time together this year. I absolutely love this time of year so even though it's not much, I decided we needed to decorate at least a little bit :) Scott likes the decorations, too, but isn't quite as obsessed with all of it as I am!

Today we finally decorated our tree... long time coming, but at least we did it! It's our cute little Charlie Brown tree :)

Luckily, we have some great family and had a little help with decorations around our house.

Here are some pics from this evening.

Almost our starting point (we already added a few)

Scott doing his part!

Oh and I bought the ornaments and forgot to get hooks, so we got a little Macgyver-ish and used paper clips :) Haha yep

Our huge collection of ornaments!

Doing my part on the tree!

Our first try with the self timer

Much better!

The final product with Scott's present under the tree :) Oh and yes, our star is actually an ornament that I hung from the top. I went to a bunch of different stores and couldn't find one small enough, so there ya go!

Here are cute decorations that our families helped with!

My mom sent us some super cute candle holders and candles, as well as an Xmas shirt and yummy candy!!

My sister Jennifer gave us this cute first Christmas ornament as part of our wedding gift! :)

And Scott's mom sent us this really cute Texas ornament for our first Christmas ornament from her!! I definitely love having something Texas on our California tree!

We really love all of them and are glad that we have some decorations that are special for our first Christmas :)