They are already playing Christmas songs on the radio...the trees and other Christmas things have been in the stores since before Halloween.  Usually this bothers me and I just ignore it until the day after Thanksgiving but for some reason this year I am all about the Holiday spirit.

We have come a long way with our decorating since the days of bare studs.

No matter what stage of building we were in I managed to decorate.  I even had a tiny tree in the RV.

We put lights up too.

While the house is still suffering from lack of details like trim, window sills and baseboards we do have drywall and paint and lots more room to decorate.  What do you do with 20' ceilings?  Why you get a 14' Christmas tree.

The big question is how do you decorate a 14' tree when all you have are ornaments for small trees.

I printed out pictures of life sized birds, covered them in contact paper and put them all over the tree.

The birds really give it a nature feel and being in front of those windows really brings the outside in. 

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