Snowman Wars!

So at the big family Christmas dinner, I was all happy about the snowman my brother and I made (see post below). I told my cousin about it and showed her a picture, suggesting it rivaled the snowman she and her brother had built earlier this year. Well, one day later, I received an email from my cousin with the following picture attached and a message saying... "BRING IT!!!"


(that's my aunt beside the snowman. my cousins made this one on Boxing Day. LOL it's hilarious!)

And so begins the war of the snowmen. Oh I'll bring it. I'll bring it...

Giant Snowman!

I've been out in the BBY since Christmas Eve - it was a treacherous journey on transit from Van to BBY, and it hasn't been nice enough to return comfortably so here I am for now.

On Christmas Eve, I was supposed to do some holiday baking for the big dinner and gift-exchange on Christmas Day, but when my 22-year old brother went outside announcing he was going to make a snowman, I had to follow. I guiltily left my mom to do the baking... heh heh heh... Thanks Mom! *voice fading* *running down stairs* *Slam!* Ah, to be 8 years old again, if only for a moment, trying to make the biggest possible snowman.

Here we are making the base and mid-section.



The base quickly got too heavy to be pushed by one person, so here we are finishing off the base.



The snowman was pretty tall, so we used a step-ladder precariously lodged in the snow to reach the top.



The finished product!



In many ways, snow is a major inconvenience. But the snowman... Totally worth it!

Christmas Tree

I think having a Christmas Tree at Christmas time is important. Now, I don't have a lot of extra space where I am, so I bought this little one, about 3 ft high. I have a lot of ornaments, but they wouldn't all fit :( and some of them are big. And a lot of them are M&M's ornaments... but i put the smaller ornaments up here on this tree.

Now, a closer look at my favourite ornaments:

First up, Dilbert in a Cup. First, Dilbert is AWESOME! And to be inside a generic office coffee mug with his wiggly tie sticking out? Even MORE AWESOME! I'm not too into reading the comic Dilbert, but I love the DVDs of when it was a cartoon on tv. This is like circa 10 years ago, and not a lot of people really get that kind of humour (which is probably why the cartoon went off the air after only a year or 2), but I find it really rings true - all those little office-isms. Plus bonus: Danny Elfman did the opening theme. Does it get better than Danny Elfman!?



Next up, Snoopy. Ok, so a realize it's a little hongged-out be a snoopy fan, but I am!



M&M's I am also a fan of. Not so much the actual candy, but the dudes in the commercials. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange. Here, Red is depicted trimming a gingerbread tree. It's great!



I also like quirky ornaments. Just ask my friend Derek. Every year, I try to get him an outlandish ornament. If it's not a Santa in sunglasses and beach shorts riding a giant sparkly fish with lipstick from Hawaii, it's a glass ornament of a chinese ricebowl, or a mushroom. Anyway, this ornament was a gift from my cousin. Love it!



OK last one. This a Polar Express (the movie) ornament. One of my favourite Christmas movies - it's about how you should always believe in the spirit of Christmas no matter how old you get. No need to become cynical about this Santa stuff. The jingle bell was a key component of the movie, and so this shows the movie scene inside a jingle bell shell.



That's all folks. Still drowning in cards... more to come.