Dec
29
Okay, I promise this will be the last time I mention Christmas around here until the next time I mention Christmas for a very long time. But in my ongoing efforts to completely humiliate myself via the internet, I have to present you with our Christmas pictures. Now if you live in a household where Christmas is celebrated, you know how atrocious Christmas pictures can be. In fact, anytime during the year when a photo is taken and we look a bit (how shall I say?) unsavory, one of us will undoubtedly say “Ugh, Christmas morning picture.” because it has become a codeword for any picture where we look horrendous. But luckily for you, we have lots of adorable kids in our family, so I’ll try and keep them in as many as I can.
First we have my nieces Emily and Jillian down in Atlanta who used their genius noggins to make Santa’s sleigh out of a rocking horse and a futon:
Here’s Emily on Christmas morning standing in front of the tree:
Jillian on Christmas morning. I love their matching pajamas!
Jillian very thoroughly examining the contents of her stocking:
Me and Amanda hanging our new ornament, a cruise ship, to celebrate the cruise to Bermuda we went on over the Summer:
Me, going to my company Christmas party. I don’t know why my eyes look wonky. They didn’t look that way until the end of the Christmas party.
Amanda and Ralphie by the tree over at her house on Christmas Eve. Check out that argyle!
Amanda, Ralphie, Mom, and Dad:
Amanda got a shirt that said: “Wine improves with age. I improve with wine.” which is debatable.
My cousin Michelle got my Dad one that said: “Yet, despite the look on my face, you’re still talking.” which if you know my dad, you’ll know it’s perfect.
Now this is Christmas morning. I got this head massager in my stocking. It gives me chills anytime I use it because it feels that good. My Mom would call this picture a Corkboard Picture. Because every time a bad or embarrassing picture of her is taken, she says: “This better not end up on the corkboard at my wake!” because when you’re dead, you have no control over what pictures your family puts on the corkboard next to your casket.
Then we went to John and Barbara’s in Pennsylvania. Here is Barbara showing off the latest fashions. It’s called Pregnant Reindeer Chic. And there’s argyle! It’s all the rage in Milan.
Here is my brother John showing off what Santa gave my nephew Jack for Christmas, but I think we all know who Santa really bought this for:
Here are Jack and Matthew playing Uncle Craig’s favorite board game. Yes, I let them win! Maybe.
I like this picture of me and Mom:
Mom got Jack and Matthew matching chairs, but Matthew is a bit too small for it, so his legs stick right up when he sits in it.
Me and Dad playing Pass-the-Baby:
Me and Jack playing with the rockets I got him. Note to self: Get indoor presents next year.
Matthew and his Aunt Amanda:
Back home trying out the new video game sound chair John and Barbara got me. Don’t mock it till you try it! If you pump up the bass all the way, it vibrates. Just sayin’!
Here I am slaughtering Wookies. Don’t judge me!
Well there we have it. Christmas is over, I’m back at work, and life sucks again. What’s left to look forward to anymore? New Years? “Happy New Years! Okay, goodnight.” That’s only if I even manage to stay up that late. Midnight is exhausting! Well there is the Battlestar Galactica premiere coming up. That should be a national holiday.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Thanks for sharing the photos. I think you look great in all of them. That rocket looks neat. I bet your nephew will have lots of fun with it. I got my sister a vacuum food sealer. I am headed over to her house tonight to show her how to use it.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Those head massagers give me the creeps. I can’t use them – the feeling sets my teeth on edge. I have an awful picture from Christmas morning which I may or may not share, when James gave me a framed, restored version of me and my uni housemates when we superimposed our heads onto S Club 7’s bodies. I look horrendous. Glad you had a great Christmas!
(PS: Not too heavy on the BSG – I don’t think I get it over here till July. BitTorrent here I come!)
December 29th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Looks like you had a real family Christmas with lots of kids and those are the best ones.
Great pics all round, especially the one with you and that massage thing on your head, made me laugh!
December 29th, 2008 at 7:47 am
OMG. You could barely see that tree with all the presents. No wonder you Christians get so attached to this holiday. I think I’d be all “yay Christmas” too, if I’d had that as a kid.
Love your dad’s new t-shirt.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:56 am
That head massager is hilarious. Glad you had a great Christmas!
December 29th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Love the PA pictures. Thanks for posting them. I totally love the shirt your Dad got – it’s perfect for him! I wonder how long it will be before the argyle fairy makes it to Atlanta?
December 29th, 2008 at 9:15 am
The head massager just freaks me out…looks like an alien spider or something. And Matthew in the chair with his legs up is perhaps THE funniest Christmas photo I have seen in quite some time. A striped tie to the Christmas party, not an argyle one? What’s going on with that?
And really, I didn’t see anything embarassing, just a lot of family and fun…and those two words don’t always go together….
HUGS…
December 29th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Great pics. Your family looks great although I have to think Emily, when she’s about 13, is going to kill her parents for giving her red prison striped pjs and taking pics of it.
You look fierce slaughtering wookies, well, you look happy anyway.
Chris: I’d love one of those food sealers. Not because I need it just because it looks like fun. I’d be sealing up everything in my house just because I can.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:37 am
those are all great photos! my family photos show everyone opening cartons of cigarettes and bottles whiskey….I’ll take your family any day…
December 29th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Loved your earlier post with pictures of your newest argyle acquisitions! You, my man, are stylin’!
By the by. Saw your younger, argyle-wearing twin in Atlanta this past weekend. He was taking in the Chinese terra-cotta soldiers (from the first emperor’s tomb) exhibit. I almost tapped him on the shoulder and called him Craig. SPOOKY!
December 29th, 2008 at 10:59 am
It looks like you all had a great Christmas. Your nieces and nephews are adorable! The picture of you and your mom is really nice and I agree with Polt, that picture of Matthew in the chair is awesome! I also love how cute Jillian looks with the stocking on her head.
Two things I always forget: that you wear glasses and how tall you are. You are as tall as the tree.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I still say Jack looks like his Uncle Craig. And how Cool a gift. I would have been fighting for my turn to play, you’re a better uncle than me.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Thanks. =) You’re sweet. And cute.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
You are hysterical! Who knew you were a Hungy Hungry Hippos pro?!? Enjoy the video game chair
December 29th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I would just like to say that your christmas and my christmas could be twins. here are the things they have in common.
1.) Argyle for DAAAAAYS
2.) hungry hungry hippos
3.) mario kart
4.) That damn nerf gun that my nephew continually shot at my head.
5.) hilarious t-shirts (Mine says “I’m so excited, I’m so scared” with a bottle of caffeine pills on it)
6.) matching pj’s for all the kids.
I think we were at the same house and just didn’t know it. Did you get really really wasted and play rock band wii with your mom on drums and you on vocals? if so, we’re twins.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Tam: When the girls are 13, surely they will have other things to complain about. Isn’t that what 13 year old girls do?
Coal Miner’s Granddaughter: That IS spooky! Who knew there were so many devastatingly handsome argyle aficionados around?
Jomoe: If we were in the same house at the same time, surely you would know it. Oh yes, you would know it.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Craig: When you are a 13 year old girl, anything that does not portray you as a cool sophisticated orphan (because god knows admitting you have living breathing parents is cringe inducing) will throw you into a vortex of death by embarrassment. So cute pics from your youth (like at the ripe old age of 10) are not a good thing. Although I can’t complain, mine lets me comment on her Facebook page and on some poll thing actually said “My Mom is nice” so I am pretty lucky so far.
We had argyle too, my daughter actually bought herself an argyle shirt. Considering how much she hassles me about my “freaky argyle loving friends”, she’s getting hooked.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Craig: How would I know….because of the HUGE gift you would give me!?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Joemo: Exactamundo! HUGE
December 29th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Craig & Jomo: Way to ruin a perfectly family-friendly post!!!
December 29th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
LOL. What? I got him one of those nerf guns.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Yeah seriously adam get your mind out of the gutter. Everyone knows I’m WAAAAY into nerf.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Joemo is a scruffy looking nerf herder.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Oh Craig.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I would just like to say before I leave work for the day…..that craig totally started the dirtiness….i’m simply followed suit.
I’m going to play rock band and drink a bacardi and caffeine free diet coke, because I’m hardcore like that.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Way to throw me under the bus Joemo!
And you forgot to say “Who are you calling scruffy looking?!” Geez! Don’t you know a Star Wars reference when you see one?
December 29th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Love the Where’s Waldo jammies. And Matthew, in that chair… too cute.
Hmmm… how can I infiltrate Craig’s fun family? I’ll need argyle or a message t, maybe a pair of those Groucho glasses…
December 29th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I just wanna tell you that I mentioned to mom today about some of the things in this post and she wanted to see Matthew in the chair. And while we were persuing the photos she said, “Well, this Craig of yours is certainly a tall drink of water, isn’t he?”
And I just smiled knowlingly cause just from seeing you once in a photo, she knew you were mine.
HUGS…
December 29th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Polt: Your mom is awesome. I love that description.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Looks like a fun time! Merry Christmas … one last time!
December 29th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Michelle M: Are you saying we have big noses?
Polt: I love that story!
December 30th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Craig: I have to come out of the closet to you. I’ve only seen 2 Star Wars Movies…..and I was probably 8 years old when I did.
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