Hey everyone! Did you have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend? Mine was filled with food, fun with friends, and lots of holiday cheer. Now it’s time to get back to business. Today is the first day of my new job! Wish me luck! And don’t forget to link up to your weekend snapshots at the bottom of this post!
Thanksgiving Celebrations
After a lazy morning of watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and The National Dog Show, Josh and I dressed up for Thanksgiving dinner and headed over to Molly’s house. She was so sweet to invite us to her family’s celebration.
I was in love with the centerpieces.
All of the amazing food.
My dinner plate. Everything was so delicious. I left with a full belly, and lots of leftovers! I feel so grateful to have the friends I do. They help make Omaha feel like home when we’re away from family for the holidays.
The music of Charlie Brown and Peanuts
After a fun night of Black Friday shopping Josh and I went to the Joslyn Art Museum to see a performance of Charlie Brown and Peanuts music. That music is such a big part of the holidays for me.
We enjoyed our date night and got our only people-focused picture of the weekend. I can’t wait to get my new phone today so I can rejoin the social media world.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
A big project we tackled this weekend was getting the apartment ready for the holidays. We turned our TV into a fireplace, blasted some Christmas tunes, and got to work.
Sprucing up our decor.
Adding ornaments to our wall tree.
Putting up our stockings.
This is where we hang Hanukkah and Christmas cards as they come in.
Oh deer!
Our entryway.
The biggest decoration project was our Christmas tree. We picked out a Fraser fir from Whole Foods, hauled it back to our apartment, and got to work putting up ornaments. I love how a fresh tree smells and the way it brightens up our apartment.
We didn’t finish getting the table decorated, but we wanted to get the menorah out and on display. We ordered a centerpiece plate to put the menorah on that I really think it will help tie the table together.
Gold, silver, blue, and a whole lot of penguin ornaments.
So many lights! This is definitely the most wonderful time of the year. 🙂
Questions of the Day: How was your Thanksgiving? Do you like to decorate for the holidays? What did you do over this long weekend?
looks lovely! the tree looks pretty! 🙂
Thanks girly!
Can your decorations be anymore adorable? I’m in love with your holiday centerpieces! I sure do wish my tree looked as beautiful of yours. Ours is currently naked. Don’t worry, we’ll be decorating it tonight. Hah!
Aww thanks Jessie! I’m in love with Christmas!
All that food looks delicious! Glad you had a good Thanksgiving!
I decorated a couple of weeks ago, but I look forward to having a bigger place when we can do more decorating and have a full sized tree. Your place looks great!
Thanks Lisa! I love having a full sized tree! I’ve always wanted a really big tree growing up! 😀
What a wonderful weekend – and that tree looks so big and beautiful.
Thanksgiving was great for me! I held my first thanksgiving in Australia.. and then had a friendsgiving on the weekend. It was a 3 day cooking event, but I wouldn’t change it for the world! Can’t wait for next year.
Oh fun! I’d love to visit Australia some day!
Your decorations look great! I decorated my apartment for Christmas before I left for Thanksgiving so when I came back it was all done. I only have a few things out but it is just enough to make my apartment feel like the holidays. Thanks for hosting the linkup!
How fun to come home to a decorated house for Christmas!
Can you please come and do up my apartment (and bring the food with you….) what an incredible celebration of the holidays!
I love decorating! I’d be happy to! 😀
I love all of your holiday decor! Your tree looks great! And Molly put together a beautiful Thanksgiving – no surprise there! 🙂
Aw thanks! I’m loving having a real tree! I just wish it wasn’t so much work!
I so want your plate of food!
Can’t wait to put up our Christmas decorations this weekend. Or rather for Lynne to do it as apparently I “do it wrong” 😉
It was such good food!
that is the cutest idea for the cards — stealing it!
It’s such a fun way to display holiday cards!
What a lovely weekend! I am in love with your decorations! The fireplace TV idea is so great!
I got that idea from Joanna at her Friendsgiving party!
Love your decorations! Looks like a fun weekend. Charlie Brown is a big part of this time of year fo rme too.
I love Charlie Brown at Christmas!
It’s so Christmasy! I need to get on it. 🙂
You got it! I love decorating.
How mad would you be if I flew out to Omaha and stole your penguin? I need it! ; )
I would share! haha But I need visitation rights! 😉
Wow thanks for sharing the loveliness with us Erin!!!
Rebecca
http://www.redtagchiclosangeles.com
Thanks for joining the link-up!
Wow, your Thanksgiving spread looks so good, yum! How nice of your friends to host. And your Christmas decorations look so pretty! I really need to get mine up…hopefully that will happen this weekend!
I have awesome friends! I hope you have a great time decorating your place for Christmas!
Oh, this is a new link up I did not know about. I’ll definitely linkup with a link back to your blog next Sunday!
See you next Monday! 🙂
Looks like a fun weekend! Your decorations look great! We need to get our up!
I love decorating for the holidays!
I love the music from Peanuts Christmas! It’s got such a great vibe! Your house is looking lovely!
Thanks Kate! We had so much fun putting it all together! 😀
Sounds like the perfect holiday weekend! So festive!
It was so much fun! I hope you had a good one too!
Vince Guaraldi is my favorite holiday musical artist too! I go crazy for the Peanuts soundtrack this time of year. Beautiful photos – what a lovely spread.
xo
Heather Wyancko
http://thriftstories.me
Thanks Heather! It was a wonderful weekend with beautiful music.
Hi Erin! Thanks for hosting the link-up. Your Christmas decor looks great. I love that you have a real tree. 🙂
I always wanted a real tree growing up. I’m so glad I have one now!
Your decorations are fantastic! Your tree looks HUGE!
It’s the best tree!
Love your Xmas decorations! I also put all my decorations this weekend and my house looks so festive. I love this time of the year!
This is the best time of the year!
Loovee your tree!! So pretty! Can’t wait to decorate mine!
x Kat
http://www.withlovefromkat.com
Aw thanks Kat! We had so much fun decorating.
Looks like you and a great Thanksgiving and weekend! We bought a fake tree last year so our tree is up but not decorated yet – time flies! I do miss having a fresh tree and when I come home from work that smell was so good.
Alice
http://www.happinessatmidlife.com
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I love having a fresh tree! But it is a lot more work!