Silent night. Holy night. All is calm. All is bright... There are few things that bring me as much joy as singing Silent Night by candlelight every Christmas Eve with a couple thousand people at our church. The glow and glisten of 2,500 candles in the Hope worship center hits me square in the soul. Every dang time. Probably why I try to emulate that in our home every year over the holidays. So on this Christmas night, before we bounce into a new year of projects, we're shari

Growing up, I loved seeing different snowy Christmas Village displays at people's houses and knew I always wanted one. When I first brought this up to Kiersten as something we should start collecting, she was immediately against this. She's against "collecting" most things in general if it means "stuff" will accumulate. I think she pictured random buildings and houses lit up all over the place. And I think at one point she said collecting porcelain houses was for 80 year old

Confession: I bought another Christmas tree. That makes 4. I just can't help it! There's nothing more magical than sitting by the glow of twinkling Christmas lights and I want every space we spend time in to have that special feeling this time of year. Our sunroom has peaked ceilings and it was just begging for a tree of its own. It has a direct line of sight from the front door and I knew I could go taller with the tree than our others. While measuring and thinking about my

Our front porch has been a rather sad sight since we took down all the fall decor and cleaned up the freeze burned plants so I was glad to finally find some time to give it a little love and decorate for winter! We got a couple really nice days this week so I thought I'd go all out and create my own DIY holiday planters this year. What a fun blog post that would be! But that was "55 degrees me"... two days and a serious cold front later, "10 degrees me" lost her jolly and too