Weekend Helper, Holiday Decorator

It's December!! Time to get festive!!!

I certainly made an attempt to this weekend when my little helper, aka boyfriend came to town. We don't get to see each other as often as we would like and so when we are together we try and create lots of fun memories.

"What's goin' on guys?"

Since it is my first ever Christmas in my very own house, I decided that we should put up a tree together. I have to say, it turned out pretty darn good. Now, I don't know about you but my tree growing up was covered in memories - those ornaments that mark a certain event or year or experience. I loved unpacking each ornament box by box and deciding where they would go on the tree. But I don't have ornaments like that and I'm not sure if I really want them yet and so we went a bit fancy.

I accidentally bought one string of normal lights and one string of twinkling lights so the boyfriend got a little creative with stringing them so that they looked good and blended well. #beginner.

I am pretty darn happy with our first Christmas Tree

We also headed to the Farmer's Market because the boyfriend wanted to help in the kitchen too!

Farm 52 Farmers Market at Tivoli Village

There are a lot of cool vendors and delicious samples (my favorite part) and these really awesome food sculptors.

Seriously, this is the kind of thing they make. 

Watermelon anyone?

We picked up some fresh squash, avocados, honey, microgreens, bee pollen and fresh dill. Yum. The dill was especially important because we were planning on making potato salad!

I really let him take the reigns on this potato salad because he had a very specific idea of what kind of potato salad he wanted to make. I'm not sure we nailed his vision but it was still delicious and fun to do.

I think we are going to keep working on the recipe [this one was just a blend of recipes/ideas/adding as we went] and when he gets it just how he wants it to taste I will be sure to post it for you !

I am so excited to use the rest of the fresh dill - any suggestions?

How did you tree turn out this year? Did you do a theme?