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!8 radcliff drive1
fatty1
me1
!santa1
!surprise1
!thumbs up1
!xmas1

xmas tree — And even with all the gifts we'd received, there were still more to go! Granta Claus checks out the remainders...

xmas tree — After dinner was over, I hopped on a train back to New York City and headed over to Fatty's house for the big present exchange!

xmas tree — Sunday was Christmas Day for the Battjers! It was kind of quiet this year because my brother was out in Ohio with his girlfriend's family so it was just me and...

xmas tree — Our decoration complete, we put my camera up on Fatty's mantle, set the auto-timer and snapped this pic.

xmas tree — Fatty came home about an hour later and he was totally surprised! Here's happy Fatty in front of his very first Christmas Tree / Hanukkah Bush.

xmas tree — Then we turned down all the lights in the apartment (save for the Christmas lights!) and waited for Fatty to come home so we could yell "SURPRISE!"

xmas tree — Once the stand was finished, it was time to place the tree! Grant tightened the tree into the base and then it was time to...

xmas tree — After the lights were on, we decorated the tree with ornaments and put all the presents we'd wrapped earlier in the evening underneath! The tree looked gorgeous, but it was definitely lacking something. Then it hit us, we didn't have a star or an angel to top the tree off with! So we decided to look around Fatty's apartment and improvise. Grant poked around under Fatty's bed and found...

xmas tree — The condom was funny and all, but it looked a little lonely up there all by itself. So we decided to look around the apartment for something else that we could add to the top of the tree.

xmas tree — ...a condom! Make sure you start at the tip and roll it on down! (Those reservoir tips come in really handy when you're putting them on pine trees!)

xmas tree — ...cut off the wrapping and string some lights! Check out that tree! Quite a looker, eh?

xmas tree — Here's Grant with the tree on our short, 4 block walk to the Fatty's house.

xmas tree — We picked our tree and got it wrapped!

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