Brownstown family goes all out with Christmas decorations
One Brownstown family members has long gone all out with Christmas decorations this calendar year.
Virtually each inch of accessible room in Nathan and Angie Patman’s residence has getaway accents on it with decorations in 11 of the 15 rooms in their property.
“We have eight entire-dimension trees and 17 more compact types on display screen. I have much more trees but was not able to get them all up this yr,” Angie stated. “We also have 46 Santas, four of which are lifestyle dimensions, and 15 nutcrackers, two of which are life dimension.”

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The Patmans’ dwelling was developed in 1871, and they just moved in about 7 months in the past.
“One of the factors that we wanted this household was to be equipped to beautify it for Christmas,” Angie claimed. “I had a great deal of my have decorations, but I applied a great deal of my mom’s decorations, as well.”
Angie’s father is Kenny Guthrie, and her mother, Linda Guthrie, died Aug. 6, which has built 2020 an specifically tough yr for her.
“Decorating for Christmas was a person detail we often seemed forward to accomplishing with each other each and every calendar year,” she claimed. “I set up her angel tree in our property this yr, but I can under no circumstances make it search as great as she did.”
Angie and her spouse and children are exceptionally delighted to see every little thing cheery and shiny with all of the decorations and colorful Xmas lights at their residence.
“It tends to make me pleased to see folks commenting about our decorations brightening their day when they generate by the residence or see the images on Fb,” she explained.
Angie grew up in Medora and graduated from Medora Substantial School. She is the latest owner of Major Road Manor Flats in Brownstown.
Nathan grew up in Freetown until age 15, and then his family members moved to Starve Hollow. He is an engineering associate at Cummins Inc.
The pair have been married for 22 years and have a 20-year-aged son, Brendan, who also receives into the Xmas spirit.
“Christmas is his beloved time of year, too,” Nathan stated. “Brendan life with us. He likes the decorations and thinks they enable to make the home sense cozy.”
Nathan explained he has constantly beloved Christmastime.
“I genuinely like the magic that the decorations convey to the dwelling,” he mentioned. “My most fond memories of Xmas are when we would all go to my grandma’s household for excellent meals and enjoying with my cousins.”
He explained when he was more youthful, his family members ordinarily embellished a lot more with multicolored lights and leaned far more towards handmade ornaments.
“I was also always fond of my grandma’s Christmas village on the bar amongst the kitchen area and the eating space in her home,” Nathan claimed.
As for this year, he stated they set up a large amount of decorations since they just delight in it, but it’s also nice when folks comment on their Fb site or tell them in human being that they love it or it brightens their working day.
Putting up Christmas decorations previously this calendar year appeared to be widespread for a lot of Jackson County people.
Angie began decorating their house in Oct with some enable from her partner.
“Nathan did all of the lifting and carrying as properly as the exterior lights,” she stated. “But I have performed all of the inside decorating myself.”
The reason they began so early is for the reason that this is the 1st Xmas in their new property, and they have much more decorations this calendar year than they at any time have in advance of.
“We have a range of decorations and hope to be able to incorporate a lot more and much more every 12 months. My goal is to have the full property included in lights,” Angie explained.
“I am much more into tasteful décor on the trees, but we also do some themed rooms with Santas and nutcrackers,” she mentioned. “I’m not certain however how extended we’ll go away the decorations. We joked about just leaving them up year-round.”
Aside from their fast household, the Patmans have two dogs, Hank, a 3-yr-outdated Goldendoodle, and Bentley, a 6-calendar year-old Mini Schnoodle.
“We really don’t have any difficulties with them acquiring into the decorations, but they have knocked down a several Santas functioning down the stairs being rowdy,” Angie stated.
Christmas has always been the most special time of the 12 months for Angie.
“Since I was a very little woman, we generally obtained up actually early on Xmas early morning to open provides,” she stated. “My mother normally did a lot of Christmas decorating. Her decorations were being constantly so rather that they could have gone into a magazine.”
Angie recalled usually shelling out the evening at her parents’ home on Christmas Eve and acquiring up early on Xmas morning to open up provides and try to eat pancakes designed by her papaw.
“We also nonetheless usually leave milk and cookies for Santa,” she said.