Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree...

My trees are up. All nine of them. Yes, I said nine. No, I am not crazy. I just really love Christmas trees. (And I'm a super bargain shopper so I buy them on clearance after the season, in fact the two I added this year I bought for like $8 and $12 last year at season end. They are both 7 and 7.5 feet trees so its a super deal :)

As usual each tree has its own theme. I've compiled a collection of photos to show u them. I don't have a picture of each of the girls' trees, but I already posted those on FB some time ago, so you may have seen them there. W's is purple and T's is pink. They are both about 3feet tall and decorated like 5 and 9 year olds would decorate them. Just beautifully!

Here are the rest of the trees, or parts of them because I took close up pictures this time to show some detail of the ornaments.



This is the 'picture' tree. It is covered with ornaments that have pictures in them, primarily of the girls. This shot shows one of my favorites, its a fat reindeer with W's adorable baby face in it. You can also see the equally cute fat snowman with T's sweet smile in it.




There are even pictures of our pets (no cats yet, but I'm sure those will come eventually). Lucy is cute in her red dog house, and my lovely Alexus is remembered always in several decorations throughout our house. (There's W's school pix from this year- pre K- in the middle of a gingerbread man).




Hard to see with the lighting, but this is T's school pix from this year in this adorable little pig-tailed girl.




The 'picture' tree in full form.




The stockings were hung by the mantle with care :)  The little lighted village is above. P.S. I love these stocking hangers I got from Eddie Bauer or Lands End (forget which) several years ago. They are simple wood, but based on their shape even when the stocking is full and heavy they don't fall off the mantle. They are an engineering masterpiece :) love em!




This is the tree in our bedroom, the last few years I've been doing a gold pinecone theme on it but this year I went back to my country theme. Here is a cute shot (love the lighting) of a country snowman.



This is the top of my 'country' tree. A beautiful metal star overlooking baby Jesus in a bed of straw (lower left corner).





Big fat maroon wooden beads are strung and here you can see some giant metal jingle bells that have snowmen painted on them, all of course with gingham ties to hang them by. Definately country :)




This is my favorite baby ornament for W. It was given to me by my friend, Marlenes and has one of my fave pix of W in it. This tree is the T & W ornament tree. Every year I try to get them a new ornament , preferrably with their names on it -but that is hard to do because W's name is not as common as T's name, so finding both names on matching ornaments is becoming increasingly difficult. Anyway, most of these ornaments are hung here unless the girls have snagged them to hang on their pink and purple trees (which are in their rooms).




These are my two favorite baby ornaments for T. They were given to me by my mom and Dan's mom. One is a beautiful glass binkie and the other is a pair of porcelein (spelling worng) booties.




Here is a family picture I added this year, that was taken last year. This is on our main, big tree, which this year is primarily red, green , and white to match the presents underneath it, which u will see later.




This is my little 'Colorado' tree. Its filled with ornaments I've picked up on our many trips to Colorado over the years to either go skiing or elk hunting, or as is the case this year, from Aspen to celebrate my 40th bday. Most of the ornaments are bears or moose and are really cute. I have lots of favorites here. Love the bear manger scene at the top, and this cute canoeing bear below.




More bears and moose, several 'family' ornaments with a character for each of us.



Every year I decorate our gifts in a theme as well. For several years I have been doing lavish wired ribbon and lots of golds mixed with other colors like silver or red. But this year I went fun and kid-like, with sparkly red and green candycane stripes and sparkly red with green circles, and green with red circles. (I like paper that matches or is opposites, so it still coordinates with the other wrappings). I usually only use 2 to 3 types of paper each year so it stays consistent and 'matchy'. There I said it. :)   I like it that way though and I think it makes it pretty. Instead of lavish wire ribbons, this paper needed simple fun shiny bows and twirly ribbon so that's what I used. It matches the tree its under because that tree is primarily decorated in red, green, and white balls.

Hope you enjoyed my tree tour. There is one more to come, but its my favorite this year so it deserves a post all its own :)