Decorations in Review

Though the holiday season is a thing of the past, I couldn't resist a chance to document our decorations for the blog--and for my own reference--before I took them down last weekend. Each year with the encouragement of our little ones, we keep upping the game. This year, we brought out all our normal favorites and added a few sets of lights as well. We stuck to our candy cane and ornament theme, adding some hand-me-down candy cane ornaments to our crepe myrtle and lighting up our path with little candy canes. Larger candy canes that used to light up but no longer do edge our front garden. We have all-weather large ornaments in a bunch of trees and on our lamppost. Finally, our matching wreathes (along with a matching door wreath that I'd already swapped for our standard winter snowflake) are holding up pretty well too. D went up on the ladder to string up our icicles, making that the most time-consuming part of decorating.

I failed to manage a night picture this year but imagine last year's look but with the addition of three more sets of lights. And because I struggle every year to remember what I bought the previous year, I took a picture of this year's new light (as our holiday collection continues to grow). I'm always surprised how a new set of lights will look totally different despite my best efforts at matching. I'm sure that the same set won't exist next year, but hopefully I'll be able to find something similar if we decide yet again that we want to add more.

Indoors looked much the same as always, though we went for silver rather than red garland on the tree (I know, we are SUCH rebels).

The only thing missing was some winter weather, but there are a couple more months to remedy that. I hope you had a happy everything, whatever your chosen holiday.