Christmas re-cap

Not many pictures from Christmas that Luke and I hosted but it was great.  We moved Christmas to a few days later and ordered pizza and wings from Pontillo's. Amazing idea since I did not have to play with the oven and store a bunch of food in my fridge.  Here are some pictures from before people came over of our decorations.  Some family did have to work that evening, but overall most were able to make it.  6 pizzas and 8 dozen wings later (only 2 slices of pizza left over!)

Our fireplace area (family room) all decorated for Christmas.  We have Jen's dorm room tree there as well.  No photo of our "upstairs" tree since it is sideways and blurry.  The tree was in our living room though.  

clothes line of cards

I mod podged clothes pins with scrap book paper and hot glued buttons on the top of them to use as a display for all the holiday cards we received.  Most of the family doesn't mail cards to family since we see each other (it's not that we don't have friends for the "lack" of cards).

all the shoes in the hall

In the basement we had our other tree set up for the kids gift exchange and grab bag.  The basement is the only room large enough for all to be in.  It is not a finished basement but some paint on the walls and lots of area rugs help warm it up a bit.

the bar area...make your own

downstairs tree