Making Christmas 2007 Part 1

Being the day after Thanksgiving, Lori and I seem to have a tradition of decorating for Christmas. Last year we got a tree the day after Thanksgiving. This year, since we are in a house it made more sense to use the day to focus on outside decoration, lights. I can remember being a kid and getting excited to put up lights at my parent’s house and then my grandparent’s house, which usually was a HUGE project.

Though it wasn’t as elaborate as i’ve done in the past I think the lights turned out well and there are quite a few more than we’d put up on our balcony at the apartment. I’m still debating if I want to put a net of lights on the big bush tree thing between our house and the neighbors. All of the non icicle lights are LED, and had we not had the icicle lights already I’d have bought those as LEDs also. I really like the look of the LEDs and they use like 3.2 watts per strand!

Big thanks to Timbo for the help. Here are some photos.

Up next will be more interior decorating and then maybe (if I can delay it) in a week or so we’ll get a tree. I will admit I’m a little sad being not as close as we once were from All-(far from)-American Home Center because they really did have the best trees and the most decoration elements. Though, I’m sure we’ll find a decent tree lot around here.