Finally! An update on my winter break festivities. It's my latest blog update: Christmas edition!

12/11/2010

He's going to kill me for this haha...we were watching tv and I was just about to leave his house when I realized I needed a picture for the day so I snapped this. This is the intense-tv-watching face.

12/12/2010

If you haven't seen How to Train Your Dragon...SEE IT NOW. I've seen it two times now and it is the cutest, sweetest, most clever movie I've seen in awhile. I am absolutely in love with the main dragon in the movie, a night fury dragon named Toothless. He's the cutest creature ever. I think he looks like a cat, actually. The bottom right picture on this t-shirt I found at Wal-Mart is my favorite - he is attempting to smile and he looks kind of crazy but the effort is sweet. <3

12/13/2010

Another picture of Fred...are you surprised? Didn't think so. :) He was lying on my bed and kneading his paws so I snapped this and managed to catch him doing it. Awww!

12/14/2010

This is my little artificial Christmas tree I always keep in my room. It has all of my dance-themed ornaments I've gotten over the years on it.

And the real tree! We got it for only $20 at a local tree farm...and it's a blue spruce. Great deal. This year we decorated it in all red and gold ornaments. I think the result is really pretty!

I went to my Dad's house after decorating the tree that day. It was an extremely cold day and this is a picture I took of the sunset over the lake he lives on. Gorgeous. You can almost see how cold it was.

12/15/2010

Merry Christmas! Every year my Mom puts out her Christmas-themed dollhouse she made many years ago. If you click the picture you can see the full-sized version and all the cute little details she put into every room. :)

12/16/2010

The door decoration my Mom made this year - I love it (and it smelled great - mmm, pine).

12/17/2010

Unfortunately, I forgot to snap a picture this day. I don't remember all that happened but I do know that I worked a long shift that day (back at good old Marc's). Only the second day so far I've skipped in four months. Cut me some slack!

12/18/2010

Wild turkeys!! Out at my grandparents' house in Copley they have a flock of turkeys that live in the woods surrounding their house. They always come up to the big windows in the living room so say hi to us when we visit. This is the male turkey (because of his beard).

Sooo many cookies. Closest to the camera are the delicious shortbread cookies and on the smaller table are the sugar cookies. Every year before Christmas, my mom, Aunt, Grandma and I spend a day making and decorating all of these - it's fun, but pretty exhausting.

One of my pride and joys - a cute little teddy bear cookie I decorated myself. I try and make the decorations fun when I can.

12/19/2010

I think this is one of the only pictures I have of all four kitties together! Isabel is top left and Ginger is bottom left, Fred is in the middle and Henri(etta) is far right. They are so cute. :)

12/20/2010

Ocean made his first bubble nest! Apparently male bettas do this to hold eggs when they are ready to mate. (No, Ocean, I am NOT getting you a female companion. Nice effort though.)

12/21/2010

Oh, Isabel...there are no words. She is so huge. She looks like hulk-kitteh.

12/22/2010

My Dad and I went ice skating that day at Lock 3 in downtown Akron. The rink down there is great - it's free to skate unless you rent skates. We skated for not quite an hour and I had so much fun. I thought I would be sore but I guess I'm not as out of shape as I thought.

12/23/2010

I painted my nails to look like candy canes for Christmas. Success? I think so. :)

12/24/2010

Merry Christmas Eve! Fatso was just nibbling on the tree needles before I snapped this. Of course, she looks innocent now.

Fred was getting his Christmas cuddles from Mom but he did not seem too happy about it...

12/25/2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The tree and the presents. :)

Meant to post a picture of this earlier - this is the wreath my Mom made this year. I love it!

My grandparents' kitty, John, not-so-politely asking my Grandma for a piece of ham.

As punishment, I put a bow on his head.

Definitely not happy.

Another turkey shot I couldn't resist - peering right in the window to wish us a Merry Christmas.

12/26/2010

The aftermath.

12/27/2010

It's hard to see unless you click the picture, but I woke up to the prettiest snow on Monday. I love when it snows big chunky flakes. My backyard looked so pretty! :)

Will post the last couple of days' photos tomorrow.