Christmas Throughout the Years!

A couple of blog posts ago I talked about how I love to look back on old photos and as it is the Christmas season I have recently be looking back at old Christmas photos.

December as whole has always been one of my favourite times of the year, for me personally it is a very busy time of the year because as well as Christmas, I also have my birthday, my younger sister’s birthday and now my nephew’s birthday also.

As soon as January 1^st roles around I am immediately on a count down for December 1^st again! I love everything about this time of years, the lights, the colours, the scents, the pyjamas, but particularly I love how it’s the time of year where you get together with everyone you care about and all the business of everyone’s day to day life just disappears for a little bit.

My favourite part of this time of year, is present giving! I absolutely love buying people gifts, wrapping them and watching them open them and hoping that they like what I have got. This year I have gone quite simple with all my loved one’s gifts (maybe I will do a blog post on the presents I have brought this year) but I think it’s the best I have done in terms of gift ever. I can’t wait to give out my gifts… can Christmas day just come quicker already!

To go alongside this small little blog post about Christmas time, I decided to get out some old photos of myself at Christmas time throughout the years!

I hope you are having fun this festive season no matter how you are spending it,

Much Love, Holly x

Christmas 2010!

Christmas 2011!

Christmas 2013!

Christmas 2016!

Christmas 2017 (So Far!)

A Few Christmas Questions

It’s officially December! That means it is time for all things Christmas! I thought I would kick of the festive season with a little set of questions that I have seen some people answer in their blogs. 

What is your favourite Christmas movie?

Definitely Elf, it never quite feels like Christmas until I have watched Elf. As a child, I used to sit with my dad and roll over in fits of laughter when Buddy runs into the toilet stall door, or when he calls Myles Finch a “angry elf.”

Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?

Both! We are allowed to open one present on Christmas Eve, this present is normally either pyjamas or a dressing gown (the reason being, so that we would have nice fresh sleep wear for when my mum took pictures in the morning).

Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?

We would always have Christmas parties at our house when I was younger, and although I can’t remember anything too specific, it was a party tradition to bust out sing-star and guitar hero and watch in hysterics as family members with tone deaf voices sang like their lives depended on it.

Favourite festive food?

Am I going to be judged if I say brussel sprouts? Yes, I really love the brussel sprouts and they always taste best a Christmas! 

Favourite Christmas gift?

I was around 13 years old and I got a remote control Darlek, I was a big Doctor Who nerd and it was probably one of the times I have been most excited about opening a present – I also got a sonic screwdriver that year, so it was a pretty good one on the nerd front.

Favourite Christmas scent?

Cinnamon! Everything around Christmas time smells like Cinnamon! Ahhh it’s just the best!

Do you have any Christmas traditions?

Nothing in particular, other than the present on Christmas Eve. Despite all of me and my siblings probably being too old to believe in Father Christmas, we still continue to put out chocolate (Father Christmas doesn’t like mince pies in my house), milk and carrots, me and my mum will normally sit up a wrap presents and then she will cover the whole house and garden in glitter.

What tops your tree?

Sometimes an angel, sometimes a star, it depends what will match the colour scheme of the baubles best aha!

As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you asked for but never got?

I don’t think I ever asked for something and didn’t get it, I would like to think that even when younger I didn’t ask for anything too extravagant.

What’s the best part about Christmas for you?

The run up to Christmas in the best part. Buying and wrapping presents, blaring out Christmas music, decorating the tree, even the food shopping! With working in a nursery, the lead up to Christmas is made double as fun, with the Christmas party and dinner and play, secret Santa at work and the variety of different Christmas activities. Christmas day itself goes far too quickly!

No matter how you choose to spend your Holidays this year, I hope they are filled with excitement and happiness and everybody gets a well-deserved break.

Much

Love, Holly x

The Importance of Pictures

Do you ever love to take a trip down memory lane? I do, all the time. I keep every picture I can possibly find from my past and I feel like it is something I will forever continue to do. It baffles me how we are able to capture a single moment, literally stop time and have it as something you can always look back on. At times I find it hard to look back on pictures, especially of myself, knowing that I will never be the person I was in those pictures again can sometimes be oddly upsetting. Growing and changing is a part of life and although we may not be the same person we were yesterday, that doesn’t take away from the people we are today.

Out of all the photos I have, looking at ones where it’s me and my family are my favourites to see. In the same way that I have changed a lot from being the young girl in these photos, so have all of the other people in them, I often find a lot of comfort in reminiscing about the all the different versions of themselves that my families have been as well.  

Taking photos is something that I will always value and is a value that runs throughout my family, especially the females. One thing I will always be thankful for is that my parents took photos! I like to think that when I am older, and my memory starts to fade all I will have to do is reach for different scrapbooks and albums (not that I have actually made any of them yet, I keep telling myself that I am getting around to it aha!) and I will be transported back to my younger years.

My advice to anyone and everyone will always be to take pictures, take lots of pictures and treasure them like they have the value of gold!

Lots of Love, Holly x