Friday Favorites - Christmas Village Edition

Happy, Happy Friday!! Oh, it's the best Friday Favorites of the year - Christmas Village Edition. 🎄✨ This is the weekend where all the lines get blurred in our house between our Thanksgiving Thankfulness Turkey, our fall art that is still up, and the Christmas lights that we are all so ready to have on. It's our "Opening Ceremony" so to speak for Christmas, and we so ready for that cozy Christmas feel in our home. If you're in Nashville this weekend, Christmas Village is here today, tomorrow, and Sunday! But wherever you are, I hope you are cozied up with something warm and enjoy a little Christmas post this morning whether there's fall or Christmas around you! Sending lots of love on this Friday!!

Oh, Christmas Village. Just a forever favorite. I have been going to Christmas Village since I was in college, and I still love it just as much as I did the first time I went. When I found out there was one here in Nashville, I took Pierce the first year we were married, and we've been going back ever since... He laughs at my explanation of Etsy meets Hallmark, but that's what it feels like to me. There is Christmas music, there are SO many booths with homemade goodies, crafts and gifts, there is a Santa to take pictures with, there are lights and trees and decorations, and I just couldn't love it more. 

From that first year of marriage... 

To last year with two littles in tow... 

He's a good sport about the whole thing... (please note even his Christmas sweatshirt hahaha)

But I dare might even say that he *looks forward* to the weekend these days too... 😉 My parents came with us last year and my dad said, "I can't believe this is the place that you love and aways talk about... This is not what I was expecting..." Hahhaa yes, there are crowds, there are people, there are a lot of booths, but there is a whole lot of holiday joy, and for that reason, I just love it. 

This is Jane's fifth year to go, and she has been *counting down* to this weekend. My little Christmas girl! I couldn't love it more. 

Little Andy has been the best sport about pretty much everything since he was born and is currently in love with anything and everything that Jane is into, so he is very much looking forward to the weekend as well haha

Just so merry, so homemade, so local, and I love it so very much. 

Almost as much as I love coming home and trying my very best to turn our home into our very own Christmas Village!! We have been tempted to get the Christmas things out earlier this year, but with Pierce out of town last weekend, and the temperatures dropping this weekend, it feels like the perfect time to welcome in Christmas. 

Cozied up in this little space is a favorite for us every season. 

Another favorite... Christmas sheets. That first year we were married, we were on such a tight budget, but I saved up a little throughout the month and tutored a little extra, and splurged on a pair of Christmas sheets, and they are still just so special. They just signal Christmas, and we are ready for them!! 

And last year, the two littles in our house got some Christmas cheer themselves! 

We may or may not have put their Christmas sheets on last weekend while Daddy was gone because it's just too fun not to!! A favorite for sure. 

And goodness, just the Christmas JOY that it kicks off with two littles is another forever favorite. 

From pajamas...

To crafts... And Christmas blankets...

First Christmases... 

Painting...

The season of Advent...

New ornaments... 

And just a whole lot of soaking it in with the littles and seeing things through their eyes... 

Three Christmases ago, we were thinking and praying for this little baby who would join us the next year, and now we get to do the same for Baby #3, which is an extra special Christmas blessing as well. ❤️

And lastly, just all of the favorite little things that come along with this weekend and this season...from family ornaments... 

To Christmas sweatshirts... 

Christmas music.... 

Cozy nights... 

Peppermint drinks... 

And soaking it in with this little fam... Christmas 2026, we are ready for you!!! And Christmas Village kicks it all off, so that is where you will find us this weekend. In the midst of all of our very favorites!!  🎄✨🎁

And there you have it - just a little special Christmas Village edition of Friday Favorites! I hope your weekend and season is filled with so many simple joys as well!!! I'll plan to see you back here next week!! Thanks Erika and Andrea for a fun blog link-up! Hope everyone has the merriest weekend! 

Sending lots of love!!
XO

❤️🎄✨Tab