Not long now!!!

TOMH&R are getting so very excited about Christmas coming up soon!  They've all been very busy getting ready and trying to keep themselves occupied so the time flies by faster.  

There was a new character around a few days ago who showed up again last night.  He's a yellow labrador puppy named Pupparazzi.  He loves to take pictures and be in pictures.  The other day he was following the gang around snapping pics of everyone.  Last night he was busy working on a toilet paper commercial, he was auditioning for the part of the puppy who runs into the stack of toilet paper.  He had a very busy day with all the retakes and was very tired by the time they were finished.  Ed & Ted giggled every time anyone said "toilet paper".  

Ned has been very busy calculating the proper cookie to milk ratio for Santa.  He's been baking lots and lots of cookies .... chocolate chip, oatmeal, raisin, molasses, sugar, shortbread and even bought some fig newtons and oreos ... to make sure he has exactly what Santa likes.  The fig newtons kept disappearing though, Al loves fig newtons.    He needed the extra energy after running around on the Telus commercial all day, that was a lot of work ... he was all tired out.

Ed & Ted were very diligent in testing each batch of cookies Ned made.  They weren't very helpful for input though, they love cookies of all kinds and just filled their faces.  They kept singing "That's amoré", thinking it meant "give us more cookies".  They were on such a sugar high that they were bouncing around all over the place.  Guerrero was practicing his ninja moves so they tried to copy him but they weren't very successful, too much sugar.  Guerrero kept muttering under his breath "lack of discipline" and shaking his head until he finally just gave up and went to sleep in the sun.

Finally Ned had to whip up a batch of eggnog with rum in it for the twins so it would put them to sleep a while and give everyone a bit of peace and quiet.  They were driving him crazy with their antics.

Everybody loved Ned's cookies and were quite eager to test them with milk ... all went around with a milk mustache.  Alphonso had chocolate milk so he ended up with a brown mustache stained on his face ... the others laughed and kept saying "hi hitler" (they didn't know it's "heil", not "hi") to him.

Fred's been on vacation all week with no home hockey games, he'll be back on the zamboni soon but is enjoying his time off.

They're all so very excited for Christmas.  Gustave has been reading "The Night Before Christmas" to Ted & Ed every night, they're just waiting for the night it comes true.  Not much longer now!