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A Tour For Christmas

I always think it's fun to see how other people decorate their homes for Christmas. Everyone's home is at it's most beautiful at Christmastime, isn't it? Everything is warm and cozy and bright. It's a chance to get some ideas and soak in all the sparkle of the season.

After seeing the tour on this blog, I thought I'd do a quick Christmas tour of our home too! We don't decorate every room for Christmas, but many of our rooms have one or two Christmasy touches. Not pictured - the kids' little Christmas trees, and the bathrooms. Their rooms were too messy, and I didn't feel like cleaning them before taking these photos, and who really wants to see pictures of the bathroom anyway? On to the photos!

Living Room

We have alot of greens and blues in our living room, so our living room tree has alot of green, blue, and brown ornaments, along with white! We got new tree lights this year that switch from colorful to white, but I like them on the colorful setting best.

Kitchen And School Room

I don't decorate very much in the kitchen or school room, just a table centerpiece, a wreath on the door, and our Thanksgiving-turned-Christmas birch tree. And incidental gingerbread houses.

Front Room/Playroom

The front room (and the master bedroom) have mostly blue-colored furniture/walls, so this is where I bring in the touches of red!

Master Bedroom

I found a few Christmas throw pillows that I loved right after we moved here a few years ago, so now I bring them out each Christmas to add a little bit of Christmas to our room. We also have white lights stringed around the top of the walls in our room, but it's hard to get them in photos. I'm contemplating adding a little tree in our room too, but I'm trying to decide if that's too many decorations for me to manage!

And that's it for the Christmas tour! If you came over to my house for a Christmas party, it would look like this, with a few kid shoes and toys and books thrown around for good measure. If you share any Christmas decorations on your blog, let me know! I want to see!

Where My Babies Slept (Nursery Tour)

T-minus 8 days until we close on our new house! I wanted to show you the last corner of our first home before we leave it.

This room is one of the harder ones to leave. It's gone through many transformations over the years, from blue airplanes, to pink and purple flower garden, to orange and turquoise ocean-themed, to coral and mint florals. Each of my babies have slept in here at one point or another. This is how it looks right now, how I decorated it for our last baby, Georgie. It's hard to leave it, especially since she turns one year old in a couple weeks. I labored over that quilt when my belly was so big I couldn't pick up the needle when I dropped it. I rocked her when she was only as big as a loaf of bread, right in that chair.

The only thing missing is the rows of family photos that were on the wall right above the bookshelf - I took pictures of it before I took them down for showings, but I accidentally deleted the photos, so aside from one photo from my phone, you'll have to use your imagination. Still, I'm glad I found time to snap a few more shots of this room amidst all the packing that is happening this week. I want to remember the place where each of my babies slept.

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That's it, guys! Our whole house, all the rooms in our first home. We've had so many milestones here, so many good memories, and a few tears. This house has been good to us, and the Lord saw us through it all and blessed us here.

Goodbye, First House.

You can click the button below to see the entire home tour. Now, on to our next place! I'll share "before" pictures of our new house in about a week or so!

The "Master" Bedroom (Before We Move)

This house will officially no longer be ours on Friday. I thought I better get a move on and show you the last couple rooms!

This is our "master" bedroom. I put "master" in quotes because it doesn't have a bathroom actually attached, but it's the biggest bedroom in the house. It's gone through a few transformations over the years, and this is what it looks like now, right before we are about to leave it.

This wall color is a good example of how a color can be scary until it's finished, just like our house color. When we painted the outside of the house gray, we were afraid we made a mistake until we added the white trim. When I painted this room "Ice Cube" by Behr, I was afraid I had made a mistake! I wanted something that could feel airy, but could also feel cozy, and when I got this color on the wall it just felt...chilly. But I persevered, and once I added all the furniture and wall decorations back in, it hit that balance of airy and cozy and colorful that I was going for.

I'll probably go with a different color in our new master bedroom, because it's much bigger and I think this color would actually feel cold in that room. But here, I've enjoyed it!