La Casa de Burdick: Looking a Lot Like Christmas

I haven't been feeling the whole Christmas thing, but nonetheless, I put up the tree this weekend.

In the process, I learned that a 6.5 foot Walmart tree is fine for an apartment but is seriously lacking in out new cathedral'ed ceiling living room.

I also really hate this particular tree. You can see right through it! It's pretty much shouting, "I'm fake!"

Unfortunately we aren't in the position to go out and buy a bigger, better tree (especially when we're kinda "eh" about Christmas anyway). So we I put the thing on a spare coffee table and called it a day.

The table is great Russell-proofing too. Because since he is still wearing his post-neuter cone, his lack of peripheral vision causes him to bump into everything. Everything.

Here are some more pictures of our mediocre tree:

dwarfed (dwarved?)

pre-lit is the way to go!

Close-ups!

I'm really happy with our jewel-toned theme, Love it.

Kelly, circa 1985:

This was part of a wedding gift package we received.

I got this so there would be a Dustin element to the tree.

Look, it opens in to a comic book!

Russell got a spot on the tree too, to celebrate his first Christmas.

(You eagle-eyed readers may notice that's not Russell. I'm getting around to getting a small picture of him printed out to fit in there.)

And there's perennial favorite, Super D hanging out up top!