a festivus for the rest of us.

since austin and i were to be heading to virginia for christmas, we decided we would open our presents from each other on thursday night, before we left. that morning, however, we learned that thursday was the official date of festivus {not sure who decides that, though}. so we decided to host festivus. we started with dinner and the "airing of grievances," then moved on to the "feats of strength," all around the aluminum festivus pole. then we opened our festivus gifts {ok, so most of that isn't true}.

here's our pink tree with all our presents underneath.

the first gift given was a special holiday beer to joee, for him and austin to share.

austin's first gift: polo cologne!

copper got a {gigantic} bone.

julie boo got a hedgehog.

joee got a snuggie.

 ok, so it's a "wrappie," but the only snuggies i could find were girlie...

austin got two different drilling tool sets, because i couldn't decide which one he would like best. so he has to choose {and apparently he thought it was funny that i got him both}.

dinger got a new cat nip toy.

guinny got some grit.



austin also got a new wallet and a calendar. joee got us a spice rack and some bar tools. and i got a basket for blankets, a coat and some hello kitty items.

we had a very nice festivus.

copper says "yaaaaaaaay festivus!"