Thanksgiving & Our First Christmas Tree!

John and I put up our Christmas tree this weekend! It's always been a tradition in my family to put up the Christmas decor the weekend after Thanksgiving, so I decided to keep that tradition because I love Christmas and want to have the decorations up for as long as I can. We don't have a lot of ornaments (thank goodness for Dollar Tree), but I think our tree turned out pretty cute considering what we had to work with! We also decorated the rest of our apartment and put up decorations outside.

Anyway...here's the tree:


And here's the super cute ornament John's mom got for us to commemorate our first Christmas together:



Our Thanksgiving weekend was a lot of fun. We went to the Homestead Resort up in Heber with John's parents for Thanksgiving dinner and then played games and hung out. Then Thursday night my little brother came and stayed with us so we could go Black Friday shopping. We went everywhere...Wal-Mart, Old Navy, Macy's, JC Penney, Famous Footwear, etc., and got some awesome deals. I'm mostly excited about our new vacuum (weird how things you get excited about changes when you get married!) that we only paid $35 for...but it's so nice! We also got John some luggage, new clothes, slippers, a video game, and some movies. John also bought me most of my Christmas, which was clothes and shoes. I desperately needed winter shoes after living in St. George for 4 years and wearing flip flops all winter there!

Anyway, it was a wonderful weekend and we are very grateful for all we have! We got to spend great time with family, each other and get ready for Christmas too! :)