03-Holidays

03-Holidays

 Halloween in a way starts the holiday season, with the big halloween party with costumes and then the Great Feast to get the family together. Big turkey and ham along with everything else, and then the deserts start flooding in, pies, cakes, candies. Then huddle and watch the football game. Soon thats over its shopping for presents.

And so its Christmas in July and the first big snow came in the night of. I have this set on the second day of winter and it gives one some things to do. One is more decorating. With snow things look different.  But first I have to take advantage of foosball time with the family. Having Stephan and Anita going against Morgan and Justin. Looks to be a good game.

 This is upstairs in the 'attic' and is where Stephan's studio is, but off the studio is a big room that is part of the party area that consists of the majority of the space in the attic.  Morgans yoga pad is up here, and with it mirrors. A DJ booth, darts, chess and a bar is in one room.  Morgan isn't too thrill on her lost. I had her change outfit before the game started but that happens after the game.

In actuality, Morgan is going through her monthly ordeal at this time and I'm sure the lost in Foosball is her in her mind right now.

 Christmas kinda snuck up on me, for there is about a week between Feast Day and Christmas, so just after the kids scout meeting it was time to put up the tree. There are a quite a selection of decorations for christmas in build buy.

 The morning of Christmas and the kids still in their PJs are opening up presents while Stephan dances. Doing Christmas in July. I almost didn't want to do it, but

 wanted to see how the house looked. No lights for the ends of the roof. And since the majority of roof is pointing the other way, very little lights, but it still looks good.
With the Santa Clause surf board it looks christmasy.

 No edges, very little lights in the back yard, but the fences are nicely done. It looks like winter.

A view of the backyard from the patio.

Here is Stephan in his artist studio. I have the artist cause one, he makes a lot of money, and two, he has some cool awards stuff to make up a nice artist studio.  He never exercise as you can tell, the tread mill is Morgan's where they can socialize while doing something they like doing. Behind Stephan I have the teleport statue ready for use, with two easels, Stephan is basically a money machine, but every once in a while he has a nice painting that I keep.  The door leads out to a small porch looking out from the front of the house.

Its winter and had to get the kids to build a snowman.  Here Justin gets it started out in the front yard. 

 Anita joins in. I have three levels of winter gear for each, a light, medium, and heavy coats.  Anita is wearing her heavy set while Justin is in his medium set. I like Anita's hat there and she is wearing her gloves, while Justin isn't.  Note the foot prints.


 Since we are talking about kids, here is Justin's room, showing his two completed school projects which are so cool. There's a easter egg on the shelf, not know much else except Justin got that when he was a toddler. I force him to do his homework on his desk.

Anita gets the bigger room since it was the nursery and Justin defaulted to the smaller room, but she ends up with the doll house and the closet which eat up some space and intrusion into her room.

Its looks like winter. And I can't find my mouse pointer.