Christmas Tree Decorating

My mom and I got our Christmas tree the other day! It's always an exciting thing as it really makes it feel like December. Christmas/Winter is really my favorite time of the year. I love the cold weather and everything just feels cozier because of it. Hot drinks, cuddling in blankets, and sitting in front of the heater or fireplace. Not to mention if you have a pet, cuddling with them as well! My dog Jake is so warm and he loves cuddling which is the best for winter time. So, my mom and I got our tree from Lowe's kind of on a whim. We were just going to look at them, but ended up deciding to get one right there. Luckily we had enough room in the car for it to fit!

It's a good 6 feet and it fits perfectly in the living room. I had to wait for my mom to get home from work to start decorating as we like decorating it together. We started with the lights of course, and ended up having to pick up another box as we didn't quite have enough.

Then ornaments went on next. This is the really fun part as we get to smile over our collection that we got last year. We decided we wanted ornaments with some character instead of the usual round multi colored ones. We got all of ours from either Lowe's, Walmart, or T.J. Maxx. Walmart has a surprisingly good collection for pretty cheap. Maybe $1-$3 each. I saw some of the same ones at Walmart recently so you can still get them this year.

 These are a few of my favorites ones. I especially like the fox and squirrel.

We also got this star at Walmart while we were picking up the lights we needed. It was so pretty and matched everything perfectly! We added ribbon to the tree last and then it was done. I'm really proud of it, and we even put down one of those light show projectors. You can just slightly see some of them in the background. Better yet, Jake sat down in front of it and it showed very well on his butt haha

It was a lot of fun decorating the tree, with Christmas music in the background and having the heater in the room. I'm glad that I can document it this year, it makes me wish I had started a blog long ago so I could've written about this tradition for so many years in the past! Better late than never though as they say. Many memories to be made this season! I hope all of you out there make a lot as well