So this is Christmas

This year marks my first ever Christmas as a married woman. For the past week or so we've been taking small steps to make our house ready for a proper Yuletide celebration. We had our lovely friends the Beilers help us with lights

 And, you can't decorate without some tasty treats to go along with it. How about some peanut butter milk shakes.

Then on Saturday Jake and I headed over to his parents house and made Christmas cookies with his mama. They were delicious and really fun to make.

After that, we were inspired by all the white flakes falling from the sky to buy ourselves our first Christmas tree!

The star on the top I made and I also turned the little yellow crocheted circles from my wedding into ornaments. Then, Jake had all of the ornaments that his mom had bought for him every year at Christmas to add to the tree. My favorite one is a disco ball that if you spin it just right all the lights from the tree dance all over the walls and ceiling. I'm excited to spend this time with Jake as a family and feel blessed to also be apart of his family's traditions. This time of year I'm really in the mood to take lots of pictures so I'm sure I'll be posting more.