This month has been crazy busy for me so far. I'm hoping it will start to slow down a bit now. We always celebrate Thanksgiving early, which has become our family's new tradition. We call our gathering "Fall Fest," and all my family members travel here from out of state and stay for at least a few days.

What do you do to celebrate New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? We don’t usually do anything too major, but I kind of enjoy that. Our big focus is mostly on having good food to eat. lol! Since New Year’s is just a few days way, it seems like a good day for a blog post all about how to make New Year’s celebration fun and memorable!

I’m going to be taking this week off from blogging so I can have a little extra holiday time. I’ll be back on December 27th and I have lots of great stuff planned for the new year. I hope you have a happy holiday season!

I have an annual tradition of sharing our Christmas tree here each year. I’ve been doing this since 2013, which was the first year I started changing the theme of our tree each year. If you want to peek at the previous years, here are the links:

I love the traditions that come with the holiday season. December has lots of memory making opportunities and this new collection will help you document all of the special moments that make this time of year extra special.

My favorite thing about surfing online is finding funny little gems that make me laugh. Here are some humorous holiday goodies to start your day off right!

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday all take place over the next few days. There are also a lot of shortages this year and slower mail delivery so I believe this will be a very big weekend for shopping. I’m not heading out anywhere, but I will be working my mouse and keyboard to get my shopping done.

I thought I would share a few of my favorite ideas here in case you are looking for inspiration.

No matter what your Thanksgiving celebration will look like this year, it’s worth documenting. Make sure you have your camera and take photos of everyone you spend the day with. Document where you ate the Thanksgiving feast and who was there to celebrate with you. We already had our Thanksgiving feast in October so we are planning to order takeout Chinese food, and watch some shows and movies. That’s worth documenting also!

I’ve never done a full December Daily album or made it through a daily documenting of the month of December. I have definitely created a lot of holiday layouts with plenty of December pages. I’m honestly happy with the approach I’ve taken over the years and I’m grateful for all of the December memories I have taken the time to document. Even if I don’t totally follow along with the full December Daily idea, I get a TON of inspiration from watching what others are doing.