Decorating Williams Manor For Christmas
Part 2
November 18th, 2008

Today we present part two of the multi-week process of decorating for the holidays at Williams Manor. We always have the house decked out by Thanksgiving with full Christmas regalia (because, after all, Thanksgiving is the official start of the Christmas holiday and Thanksgiving decorations kinda suck). This week, we dove into the garage and got everything inside the house with the goal of having the interior fully decorated by the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Here we are back in the garage where our Christmas decorations live most of the year. As you can see, I had a little, um, accident with some of the boxes and they came tumbling down. Nothing broke, though, thank you very much.

Having caused an avalanche of boxes, now is a good time to get out the ladder and start carefully bringing down boxes one by one.

Here is a classic pose; standing, staring, scratching, thinking “what the hell do I do next?”

Uh-oh…my cheap ass, plastic garage shelves have been bent and look ready to tumble. Obviously, I should probably address this first.

I carefully removed all of the boxes on the shelving unit and bags from behind it which had pushed the shelves and caused it to warp. Crisis was averted.

And while I was back there I was able to grab the long anticipated photo album of ALF pictures I took with my stuffed ALF doll when I was a kid. We’ll be getting those pictures up on our membership website someday.

Back to work. Time to get our giant Santa out of the box and see how he looks…

I love this picture. Give it to the kids and scare them.

Oh dear, Santa is missing a finger.

I found it, and then I turned into an 8 year old child. How immature.

Here I am giving birth to our new 5 foot tall snowman.

Still more larger than life figurines are to be unpacked including our 6 foot tall nutcracker.

Here we have the Cristi pile. Producer Cristi wants any Christmas decorations we don’t want or can’t use so here ya go, babe! A centerpiece with broken glass and a wreath with chipped balls! Awesome.

Nothing says “Merry Christmas,” like unpacking a tree from a box.

Once the tree is standing I can begin working inside, including hanging our 2 dozen oversized ornaments from the ceiling.

Friday evening ended with decorating our tree, which has no theme at all, it’s just everything we love and that matters to us that’s related to Christmas. Even my wife’s silly designer shoe and purse ornaments.

We have 75% of the inside of the house done and decorated now. Next week, we’ll finish up the inside and do the backyard and we’ll be all ready for the holidays!

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