I know it is a little late for christmas, but I wanted everyone to see our first christmas together in Germany. Unfortunately, I left my camera here on our trip to the States...hence, christmas in February.
We did our best to decorate our little apartment and hang our stockings over the mantel, I mean radiator! Our stockings were extra warm on christmas morning!
We also received this smoking Santa Weinachtsman from our landlords, it puffs out scented smoke.
I made our first christmas skirt with inspiration from pinterest.....so addicting. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out and am glad that I can mark that project off for many years to come.
You may recognize some of the material from the lazy-boy....trying to get rid of scraps! |
Now to the good stuff, Christmas Day! We tried to start some Spanjer traditions, but it is extra hard when your husband is a pastor and has to work on Sunday. So we settled for a taco dinner after the christmas eve service (don't be too horrified....that tradition might not stick) and then started christmas around 1pm on Sunday. It was a bit anti-climatic but we did the best we could.
First we opened our stockings and then ate a "breakfast-lunch" so it seemed like christmas morning.
Can you tell who's wrapping is who's? Boys and their camo! |
It was a great 4 hour celebration (we had to take all our decorations down that night before we headed to America the next morning) and did just the trick. I am looking forward to next year.
Such a cute pic of yall in front of the tree!! I def think you should frame that one. And I do LOVE the tree skirt. Make me one please?? I thought about a tree skirt oooh the day we put the tree up. And by then I figured it was too late to make a cute one. I actually emailed Mom last week about a couple of different patterns I found. So that hopefully by Christmas 2012 we will have one. And the burlap bow is so cute. Looks great with the stockings and garland.
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