Merry Christmas from the Trojacek's

Christmas was so much brighter this year getting to share it with Eli. We always decorate the house for Christmas and even though most of our decorations are ones we've had for years - it just felt more magical this year! I'm sad that Christmas is over and we have to take down all of the decorations - especially the Christmas tree - because it calms Eli down at night when he's fussy! I had so much fun decorating this year and adding a few new decorations to our little collection! It will be interesting to see what our house looks like next Christmas with a 14 month old - ahh! We definitely made sure to enjoy the full blown decorations this year :)

Our Christmas Village!

My new and improved Owl tree!

A little Christmas cheer in the kitchen

I think we need 2 more cabinets for Christmas cards next year!

One of the many pairs of Christmas PJs!

Mommy's little Elf

I'm on the left and Eli is on the right

Before Justin's Christmas party

Santa butt!

We now call this his "Santa face"

Christmas Card pic!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

"Check out all my gifts!"

The dogs usually don't care when we open presents but this year they were VERY interested!

Christmas sure is exhausting when you're this little!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from the Trojacek's!!

Merry Christmas...Cards!

Our sweet friend Magan took our Christmas pictures for the 3rd year in a row back in November. She is a seriously AMAZING photographer (and friend) and I am so thankful for the great pictures she captured of our little family. I'm going to do a separate post with more of the pictures because I love them ALL but I had to narrow it down for our Christmas cards! Here are the 2 cards we sent out this year!

Merry Christmas...it's only 6 days away!

P.S. Check out Magan's website for some crazy gorgeous pictures!

Christmas Time @ The Trojacek's!

Life has been crazy busy in the Trojacek household these last few months! As much as I loved our fall decorations we were so ready to decorate the new house for Christmas! We started decorating the weekend before Thanksgiving and finished up the weekend after. We realized that more square feet = more room for Christmas decorations = happy Katie & Justin! Here's a little tour of our festive house.

I made this wreath on a whim since I usually have a fresh one but didn't order one this year. The happy holidays is a throwback from our Christmas card pictures 2 years ago!

Our Christmas tree!!

So many fun ornaments. Decorating the tree is so fun, I love to see all the ornaments we've collected from places we've been and things we love. It's a little walk down memory lane each year!

My nesting dolls I got in Russia! They were too cute to pass up

Loving all of the vintage signs we found

A glimpse of our new 70" tv :)

This silly strand of lights in the powder room is one of my favorite holiday touches around the house!

Christmas Village is back and has a new home!!

I'm very excited we decided to buy these new cabinets before Christmas because it's the perfect place for our Christmas village and fits them perfectly!

I was so excited to hang my owl canvas I got last year

I finally have an owl tree!! All my owl ornaments contained in one place :)

New dining room table set :)

This is probably my favorite "new" decoration in the house this year. I was trying to think of a creative way to display all of the Christmas cards we get and thought of "wrapping" the cabinets. I'd love to put ribbon on all of the cabinets but I think it would be a pain on ones we use often.

So there you have it! The Trojacek house all decked out for Christmas!