A New Christmas Tradition

This year Richard and I decided to do something special to celebrate Christmas so we composed a song to perform at Mom and Dad's.  We were a little off-key and  "pitchy" and we probably didn't get all the words right.  But I think we may have started a new tradition!

Here are the lyrics to our song, (there's no way we were going to post a video, so you'll just have to use your imagination!) to be sung to the music of "My Favorite Things."

"My Geek Tree"
Batman and Robin, and Jedi lightsabers,
Kirk, Spock, Uhura all sporting their phasers,
Small barefoot hobbits obsessed with a ring,
These are the things upon my Christmas Tree.

Millennium Falcon with wee R2D2,
X-men and Buffy and planes you can see through,
Death Stars assaulted by rebel X-wings,
These are the things upon my Christmas tree.

Slave Leia trapped in Jabba’s dark dungeon,
Tribbles that purr with the push of a button,
Green Lantern’s light that all neighbors can see,
These are the things upon my Christmas tree.

When Jar Jar Binks, appears on screen,
I start feeling sad,
I simply remember my geek Christmas tree,
and then I don't feel so bad.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

Merry Christmas!

And for our blast from the past, here's Richard and Buttercup singing a little Christmas carol for you all...

The Trouble with Tribbles...

They taunt the cats....


And impersonate holiday personalities...

Thanks, Tom, for the Tribble! I promise to give it back to Richard eventually...

The Legend of the Funky Llama

Many are familiar with the German tradition of hiding a pickle somewhere on the Christmas tree. Well, not many know about the festive holiday tradition of the Funky Llama. Here's how it works...

First, drink a bottle of Funky Llama wine. Drink the whole bottle (after all, it's the holidays!)

Reserve the cork and turn it into an ornament.

Next, hang it on your tree, or even better, hide on the tree of someone you love.

Once it's found, you earn the privilege of hiding the cork on someone else's tree.

Hmmmm.... I wonder where it's at now? Once it's found, be sure to yell "Llama, Llama" really loud and post a comment to this blog so everyone knows it's been found. Otherwise, the Funky Llama won't know where to deliver the bottle of wine...

Christmas Trees 2009

Okay, we know we're not the White House, but we thought our readers wouldn't mind taking a tour of our Christmas trees now that they are all decorated and lit.

We've scaled back from the day when we had three separate themed trees, but we have a new theme to unveil this year.

First, we have the return of the snowman tree. Last year we invested in a taller (9 ft) pre-lit tree. I'm going to keep my eye out for a taller top hat for next year.



View at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stg8aJUU18Q

Next, is our new tree for this year. It's a bit smaller but works nicely for the corner of the basement where Richard works on his artwork.



View at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lx6ExatGkQ

Kitty Carolers

Who loves Christmas? Kitties love Christmas!!!

It took a little while to get Buttercup warmed up, but she can't resist a little "12 Days of Christmas."



Monkey wasn't about to pass up her 15 minutes of fame... We find her soprano tones to be especially nice this time of year. Enjoy!



Merry Christmas from Richard, Reenie, Buttercup, Monkey, and Scout (who prefers not to sing)!

Kitty Christmas Costumes

Okay, I can't pass up a cute kitty costume, especially when they come with two pieces! Target had a couple cute Christmas options, a reindeer and an elf. The elf costume was a little too hard to keep on the kitties, so we took turns with the reindeer hat.

Buttercup was very cooperative with the hat. Isn't she cute?

Scout is not thrilled with the costume. Doesn't she look like Robin Hood?

Monkey observes the shenanigans from the safety of the tree.

Richard demonstrates the hat for Monkey. She remains unconvinced.

Decorating for Christmas

Last year we got a new pre-lit Christmas tree, which was soooooo much easier than having to string all of those lights! Since this tree was a couple feet taller than our other trees, the snowman decorations didn't seem to fill it up. So this year we decided to combine two trees into one. We now have a snowman / bird tree. I think it looks pretty!

We decided to keep the more delicate ornaments up towards the top, and the softer ornaments on the bottom. Well, it's a good thing we did....

(Scout is in the background, and her "new toys" in the front...)

(Scout wonders, "Why would they put my new toys all the way up here?")