O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree!

One of my favorite traditions growing up was always looking forward to Black Friday.  I didn't love Black Friday because of the shopping (I've actually never been shopping on Black Friday), I loved it because my mom and I would get all of the Christmas decorations set up!  I love my mom's trees and all of the fun Christmas decor she has collected over the years and couldn't wait to finally have a home of my own to decorate!  I was more than ready to get our tree set up as soon as Halloween ended but was able to make myself wait until the day after Thanksgiving.  Logan and I both love how it turned out!

Don't let the color scheme fool you--I am true blue through and through!

Yep, I know the top section of the lights are out!  We got the tree set up and everything was working great and then when we were basically done decorating it the lights went out =(.  We messed with it for a while but were resigned to the fact that they weren't coming back on and there's no way I was going to take everything off.  We'll just have to take it back to Home Depot when Christmas is over!  

Our cute, little apartment is just that--little!  There's not a ton of room to decorate with so we don't have too much set up.  It's perfect for our first Christmas, though, and I'm sure I'll gather much more over the years!

Love my little Christmas corner!

A couple weeks ago Logan and I went with some of our friends to the Festival of Trees and had a great time!  I hadn't been for years and forgot how neat everything is!  Here is the Barton's amazing tree for Brynn!

Their tree looked so neat in person!

I knew I would love all of the trees but I forgot about the awesome gingerbread houses that would be there too!  Here are some of my favorites:

The Burrow!

I think they would have dried their sweaters with magic, though

Tangled

This might have been my favorite one, it was so well done!

D.C. Capitol

Madagascar

The animals were awesome!

Up!

I loved the balloons!

Angry Birds
This one wasn't the most well-done but I loved idea.

There were so many more that I couldn't take a picture of but were just as neat!  Thanks to Annie, Tyler & Joe for the invite and keeping us company!  Maybe one day Logan and I will be in a position to buy one of the trees and we would be donating to the hospital! ;)

Stay tuned for mine and Logan's own gingerbread house bash!  Don't expect it to be anything like what you see above or you will be sorely disappointed!