The Johnson Family: Deck the halls...

I wanted to put up pictures of the house all decorated for Christmas. We've had a lot of fun getting it all out and finding a new place for everything. Since we seem to move every year, we are always finding new places to display our Christmas stuff. I'll warn you, there are a LOT of pictures in this post (I think I counted 23). There are also pictures of the upstairs and kids bathroom since I haven't put them on here yet. I just re-did the kids bathroom to take out all of the palm tree stuff and make it more fun. I can't paint the walls, but the things that I added, help to make it fun. So without further ado (sp?) here is our home tour...

R put all of the lights on the house. It looks so nice at night. We were the first house done in our part of the neighborhood:)

Here is a little village I have in the guest room. I love villages and have them all over. This one got a little banged up in the move to Houston when a box of my Christmas stuff was dropped on it's way up to the attic. But, these houses made it with only minor chunking, so I think they are ok to put out.

Here is the kids bathroom. I choose to go with teal and dark brown. Their shower curtain has green and grey in it as well.

Here is the other side of the bathroom.

This is C's dresser. My mom just got the kids these small nativities. The kids love them and play with them. As you can see, we also finally got his shelf fixed from the move!!

Each of the kids have a tree in their room. This year I let them decorate them alone. Most of the ornaments are in one location, but they look good. This is C's.

Here is M's tree and nativity.

We put some other decorations on her bookshelf. The kids love the little people with mommy, daddy, and Chases pictures in them.

Here is her nightstand with some Island of Misfit toys.

This was our first tree when we got married. We had it on a table in our apartment. When we got "big" and bought our house a year later, we upgraded the tree. But I still put it out. This year it's in the entry hallway by the door, so you can see it outside. I think next year I'll have to put colored lights on it because the kids really want colored lights on something, and this is the only thing I'm willing to put them on. It has a lot of our older ornaments on it as well as ornaments that the kids have made us over the years.

Like I said, I LOVE villages. Here is my Dept. 56 How the Grinch Stole Christmas village. I love this village and it is always on this table in the hallway. It's so colorful, fun, and whimsical.

Here is our dinning room. Since we don't actually eat at the dinning room table - EVER - I put our good nativity on it. We also have our big village in here, so no little hands touch it.

My mom got us the Willow Tree nativity a few years ago and has been adding the new pices since. I really like this nativity. She also found the "stable" that we have and I think that it all looks so good together. R's grandmother from Germany (Omi) gave us the hand made cloth that is under it as well.

Here is one end of the village. I have it on a long couch table, and could not fit it all in the picture. Most of the houses are Dep. 56 snow village from R's grandma (Mimi) and the rest are some small houses that I've acquired over time. I believe, when I put them up, I counted 33 houses on this table.

Here is the other end of the table. It's fun to look at and get lost in pretending that you live in the little village. I love how it turned out this year!

Here is our living room. We rearranged the furniture to fit the tree into the corner.

This is the hall with the niche leading into our bedroom. I put my angel, small nativity (I guess I have a lot of these as well) and reindeer here.

These reindeer were my mom's when I was little. The legs and antlers come off of them so they are easy to store and I have always loved them. I'm so glad that they get to represent in my house :)

Here is an angel my dad gave me a few years ago. I thought that she went great here becuase the light from the niche lit her up like an angel should be :)

Here is my small nativity. I love how small and cute it is!

My entertainment center is the home of my nutcracker collection as well as our stockings.

Here is my nutcracker collection. I belive that I counted 23 of them.

Closer of our tree. It's a faux pre-lit one. We've had it for 5 years now and still love it. More this year since we got it to light the first time we tried ;)

Our kitchenette table. This is where we eat every meal. I got the center peace a few years ago, from R's work Christmas party. It's fun and sparkly.

And the kitchen. I have my carosel on one end and light up snow man on the other end with other random items throughout the rest of the bar.

This is what the upstairs looks like. I didn't decorate it much since we don't come up here all that often. Plus I wanted to really do up the downstairs. If we stay here for a longer period of time, I'll have to get more Christmas stuff to put up here. We also don't have the walls full of things, we may put our shelves with family pictures on the wall with the windows. The first door that you see on the right (the open one) is the full bathroom. The second door is the closet full of toys, believe me you don't want to see in there! We have all of our video games hooked up up here (except the PS 2). We have the first Nintendo, Sega, the kids V-motion game, VHS, DVD players, and bumpin sound system. R can actually make the house move when this thing is really going! This is also our pull out couch, in the rare case we have lots of people here, they can have their own room and bathroom.

Here is the other end of the room. It is our office area. The lovely rose colored chair was left here by the people before us. We moved it up stairs when we moved in (it was in the master) and the kids really enjoy sitting in it. They also have their desk area up here.