This year the Christmas holiday conveniently falls on a Thursday giving us a four day weekend, so we decided to take off the rest of the days that week to give us a little time at home before doing all the family visits.
After our failure to get a cute picture of Buddy at my mom's party, we tried again at home.
The ones of Buddy and Firenze worked out pretty well, but adding Ginger was a problem because Firenze kept attacking her and she wouldn't let us put her on the couch anywhere near them. Finally we managed to get this one:
I rewarded Ginger for her forbearance by sticking Buddy's bow on her head. Good kitty!
'Good Kitty' is not appreciative.
Then I thought it would be fun to get a picture of Firenze in a present bag with some of the presents. Unfortunately I hadn't realized that he was almost too big to fit in the bag, and that sitting in a bag wasn't his idea of fun.
We then moved on to building our gingerbread train. Last year we got a gingerbread house and Clint came over to help us with that one. This year we decided to switch things up a little and chose the train option.
When we were trying to decide if not getting a gingerbread house was a good way to mitigate the blooming Costco bill, Todd said "Couldn't we just make gingerbread?" To which I replied "Do we want to actually build a house out of it?" Because making home made gingerbread to build a house out of sounds like a good idea, but it requires more time and planning than most people probably realize. And you have to make a specific kind of gingerbread to do it with. So that has been added to our to do list for the weekend after Thanksgiving in 2009, along with buying a tree and sending out Christmas cards. I know I have a reputation for being a little bit of an uber-planner and being a little over ambitious, but seriously, the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas just evaporates.
Since we were at home and there was lots of lovely snow outside we thought it'd be fun to take Buddy the mini-snow bear out for a romp. There is a nice big park on the other side of town - which unfortunately has a track, but not a dog run - so we went there.
Buddy was in his element! He even got to meet a snowman. Um, unfortunately, this is what Buddy thought of him.
And of course, Buddy came back to take a nap with his best bud.
Here is our lovely Christmas tree with handmade tree skirt (by Todd's mom).
And this is what happened with we tried to add Firenze to the picture.
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