It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

 Merry Christmas 2018! 

This year my husband and his aunt surprised me with a real tree for Christmas. Justin goes to help his aunt pick out her tree every year and this year she gifted us a tree! This is my first time experiencing a real tree.

 So far I'm enjoying the experience. It is a little weird having to water a Christmas tree. I also couldn't be in the same room as the tree for the first day it was up because the pine scent was a bit overwhelming. 

 The following day the scent was much less overwhelming. I've enjoyed decorating it.
We went with a silver and blue theme with white twinkle lights

 More Christmas decor. It's definitely a mix of styles.
 Justin gave me the large deer for Christmas last year.

Grumpy Cat and the snowman were a thrift store find! 

Our vintage hand-painted 1978 nativity set from Justin's Grandma. I'm very thankful that our cat is not destructive with knick knacks so we can actually display these.

We put a tiny 15" tree in our bedroom. The tree was another thrift store find. 

The lights we added are LED and have a soft twinkle.

How the tree looks at night. 

These lights on the bookcase add so much cheer to our living room!

So pretty!

Here's Oliver enjoying the giant bunny in our living room. Justin got this for me last Christmas but it's clearly been stolen now! 😍

Love, Rebecca

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Christmas Cat

My last post about our 2016 Christmas! I was planning to get these out much sooner but January was a rough month for me as I kept getting sick.

 

Oliver was very cooperative for this mini photo shoot I wanted to do

Look at those cute little ears!

Sticking out his tongue 😋

I'm so blessed to have this handsome boy in my life

Here's to hoping that February is calmer and that I won't get sick again. I had 3 or 4 kidney stones in a row after Christmas and I could definitely use a break! 

Love, Rebecca

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Christmas Basket

For this past Christmas Justin and I made gift baskets for our parents and siblings

Oliver was a big help of course

I think he wanted us to keep this basket!

The baskets we found a a thrift store and the containers for the snacks we found at a dollar store. 

We filled holiday-themed tins with taffy, water bottles with trail mix, glass jars with chocolate popcorn and  jars with homemade beef jerky. We also added bags of each families' favorite candies and bags of maple cookies.

We found these jars at Target, they were perfect for Justin's beef jerky.

We found some cute ornaments at The Christmas Tree Shop for $1 each so we added those to the baskets

Making the trail mix. It was fun to customize it!

Filling the baskets.

This was the basket we made for Collin and Sarah. 

We found these gifts bags and ribbon at the dollar store as well. It was a fun project and we got very good responses from everyone. My mom said the snacks hardly lasted till New Years day!

Love, Rebecca

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Christmas Day

On Christmas morning we opened our presents to each other before we joined my in-laws for lunch

Of course I had to squish my Christmas kitty.

Justin opening a gift from me

I think he liked it!

The graphic on the shirt is Cats playing Settlers of Catan (his favorite game)

We got Oliver a few toys and treats for Christmas

I got Justin an expansion pack for "Exploding Kittens"

Justin got me a Pusheen plushie! I love Pusheen!

At my in-laws house

Grandma showing off pictures from their 60th anniversary party we had over the summer

Time for lunch! We all squished into Grandma and Poppa's kitchen. The meal was delicious

My in-law's cat Nimbus peeking around the corner

Some of my mother-in-laws decorations

The tree!

I had found this at a thrift store last year and gave it to my mother-in-law for her Christmas decor

Opening our gift basket to them

 My mom had found a Yukon Cornelius plushie at Goodwill, and since my mother-in-law LOVES those old Rankin & Bass Christmas cartoons we had to get it for her!

She was so excited!

I'm so glad we found it for her!

Our gift basket to my in-laws

Justin's grandpa and his aunt

My father-in-law received a smoker

Jessica got a Ukulele!

Grandma enjoying her new shawl

Shadow napping

Jessica gave me this lovely lavender bath kit

I turned a gift bow into a hair bow

 

Of course I had to have Justin wear it too!

My sister-in-law with her new Ukulele

Playing "Settlers of Catan"

I believe Justin won the game

I made a short video about our Christmas day!

Love, Rebecca

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