The Kirk's Deck the Halls

The Saturday after Thanksgiving started the decorating process in our house.

First stop: The Christmas tree farm. Brandon insists we have a real tree every year. He does have a good point with the awesome smell it leaves behind, but the mess is just disastrous for the next six months. We got ourselves a beautiful 7 foot tree......that turned out being a bit tall for our ceilings :/!

Once we got the tree in the house is when we realized we got it a little too big. It scraped the ceiling as we put it up.

After a million fights with my cousin about what colors he wanted to use on my tree, we had an agreement and it turned out great. Nathan's specialty is the topper and he did a great job!

On to the next two trees.....

This is our small one in the front room that we set on top of a barrel. From the outside it looks like a 6 foot tree.

Our stair banister is all decked out too.....

Every year for the past 4 years we have had a wine themed tree, but since we bought our house a year ago Brandon requested that our "man cave" tree be sports themed. For once, he gets what he asked for ;).

The tree topper is so cool with the mini baseball bats, but, I know, I need to get more.

The best part of this tree is the Welker jersey tree skirt.

As most of you know, we rival each other in professional football. Brandon and Brady (the dog) are New England Patriots fans, hence the dogs name, and me and Zeke are Denver Broncos fans (he is going to kill me for saying that). This Welker jersey covers all our bases since it is a Patriots jersey (that Brandon refuses to wear) of a now Broncos player.....muahahahah!

Now that our house is all decorated for the season, we are ready to enjoy the season and all the festiveness it has to offer.

Happy holidays.......20 more days until Christmas!

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Cruisin'

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