Coming home from vacation feels like the day after Christmas.  You know…you get so excited for it, then it actually comes and goes…and then it’s over.  It’s kind of sad!  Luckily, we had a lot to look forward to when we returned home and we didn’t waste any time.  The day after we returned home from New York – I put up our “Christmas Trees”.  Technically, one is not an actual tree, but let’s just pretend… 

This year, we tried something a little different.  I suspended the branches of last year’s “tree” from the ceiling using fishing line [thanks, Dad – good thing you don’t like to fish] and hooks.  Zach calls it our floating tree.

I also got to decorate a table at the RS Christmas Dinner this week – so much fun!  I love this tradition we have created over the last couple of years.  Every table is so different, and it’s so fun to see what the ladies come up with.  Zach also nicknamed this table, the “Boy Scout Table”.

I guess he’s right.  I am a bit overboard with the flannel and plaid lately.  Little does he know, I have big plans for that little plaid scrap of fabric.

Also, since being home we have:  been to Trader Joe’s twice [aka Crazy Town USA], the girls and I saw the newest installment of the Twilight Saga, our entire family purchased tickets to Les Miserables for the day after Christmas, washed and folded over 10,000 loads of post-trip laundry, and slept in our own bed.  It’s good to be back!