It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...

Well Thanksgiving is over and you know what that means.......CHRISTMAS DECORATING BEGINS!! haha. The past couple of days we have been working hard decorating our place to get it looking perfect for Christmas. My parents had brought me an entire suitcase full of Christmas decorations from back home. So I was pretty excited to get all my stuff up. Well Tyler decided to surprise me the other day. I was at work on Sunday at DRC and then I had to work at the hotel until 9. He texted me around 1 saying I have a surprise for you when you get home! I knew it had something to do with Christmas but I had no idea what to expect. Come to find out...Tyler and Jeff (our landlord) had spent all day Sunday hanging Christmas lights!! Tyler told Jeff how much I loved lights and he decided to go along with it too. When I pulled up I could not stop smiling! I couldn't believe they did all that for me! So I have spent the past few days just adding a little here and there and making it look magical. Tyler has been so sweet by helping decorate and getting into all the fun with me. Here a few pictures of what have so far!!



Step 1 was to get a tree! Yes, they have a Christmas tree lot here. Notice I said "A" so there is only 1, but the best part about it was that they get their trees shipped from North Carolina!! So our tree has the same heritage as us!



We only have tiny spaces so we needed a pretty small tree. We ended up getting one about 5 feet tall. Its so cute though, I couldn't be upset about it being small. We tied it to the top of the car and headed home!


Step 2 was to put the tree stand together. Tyler and Bear did this part. I forgot about all the "extra" stuff you need with a tree that we didn't have.


Step 3 was to wait...and let the branches fall. I was so excited I wanted to decorate it that night, but Tyler was right. It needed to sit and fall some first.


We also got this pretty wreath to hang outside of our door. The local boy scout troop makes them.


When the family came down, Mom surprised us by giving us our stockings!! So now we can hang them up. Tylers, Triggers, Bears, and then mine! We don't have a fireplace so we had to use the window, but it works. I also added the garland and lights around it too.


This is by far my favorite Christmas purchase, besides "para-trooper" back home, and this one definitely comes close! We found this Christmas pig at K-Mart and just had to buy it!! He is soo cute!


Tyler and Jeff did the lights around the fence and then I added garland and bows :)



I also found these super cute Christmas flamingos! I mean, you can't live in FL and not have Christmas flamingos outside!!



The finished tree!! Tyler and I were very proud of our first Christmas tree together! :) We had such a good time!


And now for the finale.......................................

TA-DA!!!!! All the lights outside under our place!! It's hard to get them all in 1 picture, but you get the point! :) If anyone is around town and wants to come by and look them, let me know!!

So yes, Christmas will be a little different down here in the hot weather, but we are having a blast with it so far!!