This Time of Year

...just makes me happy.  I love seeing the decorations and cuddling with my two boys because its cold and buying presents for all of my favorite people.  But most of all, I love the feeling this season gives me.  It seems like everyone is so much nicer to each other around this time.  I was at the mall the other night and walked by the Santa area.  The faces on all those children waiting to meet him was so precious.  They were so excited.  It just made me happy. 
I love how our apartment looks all decorated for Christmas.  I know I'm biased, but I'm pretty sure we have the prettiest tree ever :)  Minus the tree topper because we don't have one.  I haven't found any that I love, so the hunt continues. 
Aaron and I worked on a Christmas project together last week.  I had seen an ornament wreath on Pintrest that I thought was really pretty.  On a trip to WalMart, we bought a bunch of shatter proof ornaments to use.  When we got home, I got out the handy dandy hot glue gun, an old wire hanger and the ornaments.  It took us a while to get going, but once we did it went pretty smoothly.  I must say, we did a great job :)  The only thing missing is a big bow to cover up the hook and hang it with.  I tried to make one, but failed.  I am probably going to go have one made at Hobby Lobby.  When it's complete, I will share a picture.
I worked on one other craft this past week.  It was of course another Pintrest find.  All it took was a few pieces of scrapbook paper, paint and some jute (that is string for those of you who didn't know - I just learned that a few weeks ago).  I wanted to recreate a picture I had seen for Aaron and I's Christmas card picture this year.  Yesterday we went out to Grapevine and my friend from school, Lauren, took pictures for us.  She put one on Facebook, so here it is :)

So what do ya think of my craftiness?  Pretty cute huh?  And the guy isn't too bad either :)
I can't wait to see the rest of them! 
Well, one more week of school and them I'm done for 2 whole weeks!  So excited.  I am excited about all of the projects we will be working on in class this week too.  My plan is to take pictures and share them on here....we'll see how that goes!