Our Christmas Trees

Merry Christmas!

Over the years I have simplified Christmas,

and our trees are one of 

those things that have become very

fun and fast.

I sprayed the trees with fake snow

after I put the lights on them.

This a trio of trees, 

I decorate them once every

5 or 6 years, leave them decorated

and then wrap them up at the end of each Christmas

season.  Then when next year comes

I just unwrap and put them in our

bay window, already decorated!!!!

So easy and awesome.

Here they are, 

I did redecorate this year,

taking everything to White, Gold, and Natural,

with a touch of book pages.

I always put our Nativity under the tree.

We don't do presents for each other,

so the Savior is the best part of under the tree.

This year I painted the back of the stable

black and made a stencil 

of the saying and painted on the 

back of the stable.

It turned out so fun.

And gives the finishing touch to our

Nativity that I feeling it was missing.

Perfect!

Our ornaments on the tree are angels,

Nativities, and stars.

A few glitter ornaments of course.

I like the angels in the tree

as I feel like they are singing

Joy to the World,

and rejoicing for the birth of

the Savior.

This ornament we found at the 

Christmas markets in Germany a few years ago.

 Some of our ornaments come from around 

the world, where we have visited and 

where we have lived.  Some of the ones

in these pictures are from Ethiopia.

The Yellow baby Jesus was made by my

Aunt who lives in Germany.

Wax ornaments are a precious and

expensive items at the Christmas Markets.

I feel honored to have such a wonderful

ornament from her.

Baby Doe comes from our years in college,

I worked at a store that used her face for all of their

signing, and huge pictures of her

hanging from the ceilings. 

So when they were all being thrown

away, I salvaged them and made her faces

into ornaments.

We also have a large framed picture of her

that I bring out each 

Christmas Season.

Well, our 3 small trees

are tucked neatly in the bay window.

their white lights glisten 

all day and in the evening.

This is our way of celebrating

Joy to the World.

Centering our tree around

Jesus, the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas!

Robin