Decorating for Christmas

I decorate our house for Christmas early.  Don't judge, all you "let the turkey have it's day" people.  We are usually gone for a week to Indiana over Thanksgiving, then I come back to the last week or two of the semester before Final Exams - which generally means A LOT of grading (and really whiny, suddenly motivated students).  We then leave as soon as Finals are over for Colorado for Christmas, so to enjoy it more than 3 days - I put the tree up around the 2nd week of November.

This year I had a little helper...