Our Christmas home :)

I am so excited about Christmas, I think more then I have been for years and years (probably since I was a young child). 

This is our first year as a family with 2 children and Pebble's first Christmas so it just feels really special. Nemo was only 4 months for his first Christmas so he didn't really appreciate it and last year I was very very pregnant and I was working up to Christmas so I didn't have much energy and time to put into Christmas. I thinks when you get married you both come with different experiences of Christmas but being our 6th married Christmas it feels like we're getting our own little customs and way of doing things. My husband's family's would have gammon for breakfast which was amazing but I don't think I could manage cooking and eating that on top of cooking and eating Christmas dinner! We do however have several beautiful Christmas decorations from Hubby's childhood, here are these little children's Christmas books that hang on a tree. 

His family loved in several different countries during his childhood including Germany and Norway so they had lots of beautiful Christmas decorations. 

Nemo certainly enjoyed decorating our Christmas tree. He took an unusual approach to the process

Very modern of him... :) Nemo also added his own preferred decorations...

But after a little help from Daddy here is the final result 

However weirdly the tree seems to have become a bit disheveled since then, I have no idea why? 

 We moved the books from the fake fireplace with an air heater in to make room for Santa to arrive! 

We had home made stockings with our name on as a child and I wanted to make some for the children however my list of crafts was too long so I will have to do this next year! 

Albeit a few days late I did manage to finish making Hubby's advent calandar 

It has chocolate or a sweet in every stocking and 24 reasons I love him, he is pretty amazing! (Top romantic marks?) 

Nemo has his own calandar

It's a cute felt hanging which his Nanny got him as a Christmas present last year so this is it's first use. It's really sweet. In Nemo's it has a chocolate or sweet and a part of the story of Jesus' birth in every section. 

The children both have little Christmas trees in their rooms

So here are some the Christmas happenings in the rest of the house

My crochet stars on their twig home! 

Nemo's Christmas pictures, some from last year some from this year. 

My crochet wreath. 

I love this moose!!! We got it from bath Christmas market the first year we were married! 

I made this bunting several years ago

I love this handmade bunting we got from a craft center a month ago or so

Part of this years crocheted Christmas bunting 

We bought this bunting very cheaply last year from Home Bargains I think....

I have to admit I'm not a massive fan of those red, blue green multicolour Christmas lights however my husband is more keen. We take it in turns having them on the tree for compromise and this year put them on the stairs for for festive cheer that's not too intrusive!! I have to admit I quite like them like this, it makes going upstairs in the dark feel a bit epic to be honest :-p

Hubby's away at the moment but I was very nicely invited for dinner with the children from a family at church. I decided to spend yesterday afternoon making biscuits with Nemo whilst Pebble was asleep and Nemo decorated them (can you tell?) we had Christmas trees, stars and snowflakes. The problem was that kitchen was a distasteful by the time we finished and when I put the children to bed it took me till almost 10pm to clean up the kitchen and do the usual chores. This meant I didn't get to bed until past 11. Now typically the children wake around 7am- very respectful but of course today of all days Pebble decided to wake at 5.45am :-/ 

In their defence they have been very well behaved this morning and have been playing very nicely together whilst I've written this!

Nemo took himself into the kitchen at one point I went to see what he was up to to find him in the washing basket doing his flash cards! 

They are both getting so big now and are both so gorgeous 

Here's Pebble doing some reading :) 

And here is my hansome little man! It's hard to get a picture of him at the moment as he's always on the move!