Christmas Decorations Around the Strange House

This my little tree in the front living room. This room always stay so messing. Right now...it's the catch all room. I hope to some day get those things out of there and start putting getting some furniture in there. BUT...Darin bought a BowFlex for Christmas...and it's in that room now. It takes up almost half the room. I may not get my furniture in there after all.

This is our nativity set. Ann gave this to Allison (my ex-sister n law) and me a long time ago. I've had this set since Darin and I married almost 15 years ago. It's a nativity set from Avon. It is so beautiful.
Our family Christmas tree in our family room. It's not as put together as it usually is every year. This year...we were so busy that I just let the kids decorate it. The ribbon's a little out of sort and uneven. But they did a fabulous job with it. There's usually a huge bow on top...but I didn't have time to redo my bow....it gets smashed in the box every year. I was just doing good to everything out and up this year. The ornaments on the tree consist of some that I have bought, some that I have gotten from ornament exchanges, some that the kids have made at school or church, everyone gets a new ornament every Christmas, and then while Darin played baseball back when he was in high school....his baseball team exchanged ornaments every year. So I still have those ornaments. Some are dated back in the 70's. Because all of those are dated....I began dating all the others that go on the tree so that we can see how old they are. So this is our tree of memories and toys. It's a playful tree that will be in our family room for years to come.
Our mantel is getting full. We have 7 stockings up there...Darin's, mine, Dalton's, one for Jesus (it's one in the middle), Cole's, Cambre's and Malachi's. And they are all in order. I think it is so incredible that with them being all in other...that they lay in the same direction. I didn't plan it that way....it just happened.
My Christmas Village that Darin bought me last Christmas. This year he added a huge church to the collection. I'll have to put up another table next for it. There was just enough room on this dresser we have in the front hall way for this year's collection.