Christmas Decorations

I just love Christmas lights. Coming home each evening to the Christmas tree all lit up and the house lights on is one of my favorite things! I haven't invested much in Christmas decorations since we got married, mainly because I have no idea what our living situation will be from year to year, but I try my best with what I do have :)

Here is Taylor putting lights up outside. If you ask Taylor he will tell you that he risked his life putting those lights up! Ha. I forgot to take a picture of the outside but you can see my post here from last year and it's the same.

A few decorations on our small table.

And the tree! I really love colored lights on trees and lots of random ornaments that have special meanings, that was how our tree was growing up and I always loved it. We can't wait for this week to be over and head back south to see family! See many of you very soon :)

Better late than never...

I never got around to posting about our lives before Thanksgiving, or really much about the last couples months (sorry about that!), so this is what we had been up to prior to Thanksgiving...

I voted. It was my first time to go to the actual poles since last time I voted I was in college and voted absentee.

We played golf... in November... in Illinois. I don't know if I ever thought that would happen. It was 65 and sunny a couple weeks ago and the perfect day for golf. We played a course about an hour and a half away and which is actually one of the nicest public courses in the state. Since it was late in the season they had VERY reduced rates so our budget could actually handle the cost! Ha. It was a great day and a beautiful course.

We spent the weekend in Chicago to visit some friends. Brittany and Drew recently moved to England and were in the area for the weekend at a conference. It was fun to catch up with them!

For the actual Thanksgiving holiday we spent time with my family in Oklahoma. It was fun to see grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins. I look off Wednesday and we headed to Oklahoma for the Carrie Underwood concert! We got my sister tickets for her birthday and it was so much fun.

Thursday we delivered food to some needy families in the area and that was a real blessing. I look forward to doing that again in the future! That evening we had a wonderful thanksgiving meal with our family friends and then played games that evening. I even went Black Friday shopping, which I had never done before. I'm not sure I'll be doing that every year, but it sure was fun :)

Friday and Saturday we spent time with both sides of my family eating a lot of turkey, stuffing, casseroles, and even smoked ribs and sausage with baked beans (Taylor said that was his kind of Thanksgiving!). It was a wonderful weekend and we can't wait to be back for Christmas!