Happy Holidays!

Abbreviated decorating this year since we're a little busy with baby. But we couldn't let her first Christmas go by without a tree! Rather than move all the furniture away from the living room corner next to the sofa (see our previous decorating pictures), we decided this year to see if the tree would fit next to the door that we never use that leads out to the breezeway. And it did! This is an amazing discovery - much less effort and just as out of the way. Now we don't have to move a lamp, a table, the sofa, and the coffee table just to put up the tree.

 But the real decor theme for our living room this holiday season is this:

Baby things everywhere! The TV area is loaded up with diapers, wipes, toys, etc. and the Pack 'n Play has set up permanent residence in from of the TV.

Unlike other years, we didn't do the outside or all the other little nooks and crannies in our house, but we did still manage to put together a pretty centerpiece, thanks in part to a beautiful flower arrangement that a friend brought by:

And of course this year we were thrilled to get to hang a new stocking on the mantle for our new little addition to the family!