It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Christmas!! We’ve been counting down until the first of December for the past few weeks, {im}patiently waiting to be able to start the Christmas decorating! I’ve really been looking forward to it this year, as it’s Vega’s first Christmas and also I was so pregnant and grumpy last year that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I usually do!

One of the things I was most looking forward to was having a real tree. Our last house was teeny tiny, and we had a super slim artificial tree, which was lovely, but not quite the same. We ordered our Christmas tree weeks ago – an 8ft Nordmann Fir from Pines and Needles. The tree arrived on Friday last week, and Mr G put it up in the stand and we left it to settle for a few days – we gave it a slight hair cut as I hadn’t factored in the width of the tree and it was gloriously huge! It looks and smells amazing though! Vega is highly amused that we have a tree in the house….!

We spent Tuesday {the first} decorating the tree, I’d bought some new decorations as the tree was so much bigger than ones we’ve had previously. We have a few that come out every year, and I try and buy one special ornament each year to add to our collection. This year I picked up these personalised baubles from Cheryl Rawlings

The girls activity advent calendar is hung, and we’ve started decorating the rest of the house too. I love how cosy the house feels when it’s decorated for Christmas – it seems to make everyone a hundred times more excited for the big day too!