Oh Christmas Trees....

Since we were not home last year and didn't put up any decorations, I was really wanting to go all out this year.  It will be our first ever Christmas at home, and we inherited some great trees from some friends that moved and needed to downsize.  We actually didn't even put up the only tree we had prior to last year...it's a little old school and really takes an effort to put together!


I'll call this our "formal" tree....simple red and gold decorations in our foyer (since it's so tall it looks best here.)  I may gaudy it up a little more in the future if I can get some good decorations on clearance, but wanted to work with what we had this year.

Our little rustic forest of trees in the dining room.  We bought all new decorations for these this year, but found some pretty good deals. Also note my new Christmas dishes which was a gift from my parents....love them!

Our basement tree-- it'll be the "tacky" tree with multicolor lights and kid ornaments.  For now it just has a set of small Sesame Street ornaments that Nate busted into while we were shopping at Garden Ridge and a few other bright colored ornaments.

And our "real" tree that houses our family ornaments.  We didn't load it up too much, but picked our favorites.  Also, a round tablecloth doubles pretty well as a treeskirt (and very affordable!)