Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you and your family. May the spirit of the season be in your hearts and we hope that you share the real reason for the season with those around you. May God Bless you and yours during the holidays and always! Merry Christmas! Love, The Fountains

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

D and I decided not to put a Christmas Tree up this year. Mainly because we are so darn busy that we won't even be home to see it. I mean, the only free time we have is this weekend and we have about a million things on our to-do list... grocery shopping, Christmas shopping, wrapping, etc. so we won't really be able to enjoy it then either.

Another reason is because I just have a small 4' Christmas tree (I somehow managed to accidentally give my big one away). So, I want a new tree but I don't really want to spend the money right now, so D told me just to wait and that when we start having children, he would buy me a new one and we'd start from scratch.

The very next day, my Ballard Designs catalog came in the mail and I saw this...

Christmas Tree perfection!

Isn't it gorgeous? I would love for my living room to look like that. I don't think it ever will. I would need a little more color. And then you'd have to add the mess D makes, and all the bugs that Coco brings in. I don't think it would be quite the same, do you? Happy Decorating!