Christmas Tree Extravaganza '07

Last week Saturday we went to cut down our Christmas tree. We got to go on a sweet bumpy wagon ride. It was a fun day with only one minor setback. We bought a Christmas ornament for Faith's nephew but we immediately lost it. We think we lost it even before we got the tree packed into the car.

Once again, our little Nissan Sentra came through with flying colors. It's two years in a row now that we've gotten a six foot tree in the trunk of the car.





Some random little kid wandered up and joined the fun!

Anna and Faith are marking their territory!



Amy did the actual cutting down of the tree. It seemed to go easier this year. She didn't have any problems getting through the trunk. The rest of us were too busy goofing around we didn't even notice she was done right away.



Since Amy actually did all the work, Anna and Faith took the opportunity to kick her while she was down.


Amy, the Victorious Conquerer!



Haw! Amy stuck her head up a horse's butt!

We got a new cat!

We took in Amy's cat Bob because her dad and his new wife just had a baby. We felt bad that they would have to give the cat away and Amy wouldn't see him anymore.




We gave him a new name to go with his new home. He is now Todd or Toddy-Boy named after radio superstar Todd Hillier.

Someone isn't very happy about having a new roommate.

Haha! You've been replaced!

Kitty's having a hard time adjusting. She's all cranky and hissing at Todd whenever he gets near her. He couldn't care less. He's too busy sniffing at things and already getting into trouble. Earlier this morning he knocked down our garbage can in the bathroom and got stuck in the bag. Good thing for him I just replaced the bag last night. Still, he was meowing like mad man trying to free himself. He totally lost it. So much so that he ended up wetting himself. In the bag. I had to clean him up and handle a bag filled with cat pee. Sick!

Three days in and he's already a burden!!

Amy's birthday trip to New York.

Yeesh, there's a lot of catching up to do. On the weekend of December 7, we went up to New York to celebrate Amy's birthday. Friday night we went to the Kinokuniya bookstore by Rockefeller Center because we heard they were having a close-out sale with discounts of up to 75% because they were moving to a new location. Amy is big on manga and anime so she was able to get a few things there.



We didn't feel like fighting the rest of the tourists to get to the tree. That's as close as we got.

Saturday was the real reason we were up. The American Museum of Natural History has an exhibition called Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids. Rachel, Michael and Gaby went with us to the museum. We got there around eleven in the morning and spent a few hours altogether. We spent most of the time at the dinosaur exhibits and the actual Mythic Creatures room.


Hurray, we have our tickets!!


Amy with her new best friend.


We can't tell if The Little Lord is looking at the dinosaur or if she's enraptured by her own reflection.


Michael also made a new friend.


It's Gamera!! Yay!! Unfortunately, he is no longer filled with meat.


Onil and Faith going all MSTie under Gamera.


Onil with horns.


Anna with horns.


Rachel just couldn't quite get it together to properly sit in front of the horns.


Amy, Anna and Gaby are gonna need a bigger boat!


It's a Jim Henson Chupacabra Baby.


Here's Rachel, The Little Lord, and Gaby in front of a unicorn. It's too bad the unicorn's most important feature did not make the picture. Free tip: Frame your subjects properly.


DRAGON!!


MONKEY!!


Amy and Pegasus.


I forget what that bird is supposed to be.


St. George and three buttbags.

After the museum, we went to Strawberry Fields so Anna could commemorate John Lennon's death.


The Imagine mural as a shrine.


Just to give you a sense of the size of the crowd.


We also got our Christmas pictures taken while we were there.

Later that night, we had a party for Amy. Pretty much all her presents from us and my family were bought at the museum. We had Michael distract her while Rachel and I were paying for things.





So that was our fun birthday weekend. We drove back down that Saturday night.


Happy birthday, Amy! The end.

Christmas Lights! Wow!

This past weekend we hung up our Christmas lights (and by "we" I mean "Onil and Amy"). When Onil was in NYC last week he went to the Phil-Am store in Queens and found an inexpensive parol, so he got one for us. We have a larger, more expensive parol that we hang inside, but we figured that for $15 we could hang this one outside. Here are our pictures:

As usual, the Littlest Lord of All contributed NOTHING to the procedure other than to sit on the stepladder and play her guitar for the cars passing by. Hmmm... I seem to remember this happening before....
















Here she is, pretending like she's actually working:




This is a good shot of the parol, by the way:




I was upstairs folding laundry while this was going on, and I came out and saw the Little Lord playing guitar for the passing cars, so I shook my booty like she was a rock star or something. Amy eventually joined in. Please ignore my glasses and lack of make-up. I usually try to look better than this. NOTE: Torrk, if you take any of these pictures and do rude stuff to them I will totally kill you.








At one poin during my dance a car pulled over to laugh and watch. Good times!




And here's what our house looks like, all lit up! Yay!!!





The one with Amy is all fuzzy because we suck at taking night pictures but you get the idea.