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Christmas Decorating

I love to decorate for Christmas, and I love to share my home with everyone, so come on in and see the magic...

 The front entryway. The boy's current Christmas card always ends up on that snowflake frame once I get them made.

 The boys love to help me decorate so this year they each got a handful of our Nutcrackers to place where they wanted them.  Wyatt was cracking me up because he kept asking, "can I climb the LETTER to place the GRAHAM CRACKERS."

 Jack has always loved to help me with the decorating. I'm glad that he wants to share this special time with me.

 Our finished fireplace.

 A quick move over to the family room mantel.

 A close up of one side of the formal living room mantel. I found those stacking Nutcrackers at our local Kroger and fell in love. They are so cute and so different.



 I had been using our light up greenery outside but this year decided to add it to the banister to make it easier to hold the metal ornaments and to give the room a bit more Christmasy lights.




 My all-time favorite Christmas decoration -- my babies footprints!




 Our Santa pictures -- sadly, this year everyone decided they were too old. I think I could have gotten Wyatt and Ethan there if I pushed, but I didn't.


 I had a very different front porch this year and I LOVED it!

 I love this big ornament tucked into the poinsettia's.

 I moved the tiered basket over into the corner as it felt too crowded by the front door.

 This was the final front porch look.

 I also changed up my countertop look. I HATE the clutter that accumulates in this part of the kitchen counter so I decided to decorate it to help keep me on top of clearing the clutter.

 It gives it a bit of a focal point.

 Nothing much changes in the formal dining room. I've been happy with the look for a couple years now so I haven't changed too much.

 Well, I take that back. I normally have the greenery snaking the table on top of the runner with the bowl filled with the santa ornaments (you can see a tiny one in the bow). But this year, not five minutes after I had it all decorated I heard a big crash and came in to find that Bandit had pulled on the runner and knocked everything off the table. All the glass ornaments broke except one. Thankfully with all that glass everywhere no one was in the room. I spent quite a bit of time cleaning it up since we walk around the house barefoot most of the time and twice this past year I stepped on the tiniest shard of glass that I had to have cut out of my foot. I couldn't bear to have the kids go through that...

 So that bit changed and I added a couple new ornaments hanging from my light fixture.



 The pressure of living in a big southern house finally got to me and we added a second tree to the house. This one is a fake tree in the family room that I will now decorate with all the kids handmade ornaments from school. I love it. And since we spend most of our time in the family room and kitchen, it made sense.

 This is a new outside decoration that I made this year and I love it! Big enough to see from the street.

 And very welcoming.

 The Cornwell boys wish you a very Merry Christmas!

I love this view from the upstairs landing, all aglow!

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