Yuletide is near and this is the December picture place
Those are great pictures, Irina!
But, whoa ...what a coincidence. Those Christmas tree hanging over the roads, are very similar to a project that I've planned to do with the kids at the daycare center.
Kill me.
This is why we can't have nice things.
And you really don't look like a little girl at all like you are always saying. You might be tiny, but you definitely look like a woman.
It's because of the lines around my mouth that I got from smoking, isn't it?
A perk of getting up at 5am is seeing the beautiful sunrise from my house:
Wow! Lucky you. 
I love the last one, Sarah.
man, that´s a good view.
How beautiful Sarah.
Here are some random pics I've taken recently.
I had this for breakfast yesterday
This beer is tasty
I braided my lil cousin's hair and we watched Land Before Time
I went a lil crazy buying toys for the girls.
And my wake up face
Imagine waking up to that. Pretty.
Imagine waking up and looking like that! She's such a belle.
Antlers on bear OP.
Haha yeah and the picture's not even winter.
Bearmoose!
This is why we can't have nice things.
That is a pretty good beer.
It should be against the rules to wake up looking that great.
Jaz, I thought you were a redhead?...Anyhow, you are beautiful in the morning!
Sarah, I want to live where you live. New Zealand has always been one of my dream places to see - way before they started making all those Hobbit movies. Not that I have anything against J.R.R. Tolkin.
you guys are too sweet. Thanks. Yeah that beer is good even with the stupid antlered bear. And I have brown hair newgirl. I want to die it purple though when I get back from my trip though. I want to have money when I go to hawaii and I think my hair is gonna cost me a pretty penny once i get it done.
No christmas mess but Nerd Rage. 
And More JuJu
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
This!
Early St Nicholas gifts! I'll get candy tomorrow and bring some to my friends at school, too.
I love the Klimt notebook and it closes with a magnet.
The books are The Rotters' Club and The Book of Evidence.
That nerd stuff intrigues me but each time I walk into the Nerds store and look at the game they look at me like I'm an alien and I feel weird. Juju is cute and I don't say that about many lil dogs. I love that Klimt notebook Irina.
This!
Oh stop you two. I should get your bf's to take pictures of you when you're sleeping or just wake up. You both are beautiful.
Your all good looking ladies. Morning or not so it works out for everyone.
And Even I feel weird at those stores. I just have a lot of friends who are into a lot of different stuff so I get to taste a little bit of everything.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
I have friends that are into a lot of different things. I did nerd it up a bit playing a game similar to WOW at some internet cafe place. That was fun. I saw a couple playing some card game at my work and it looked like fun too. I just wouldn't know where to start with all the geeky stuff. Oh and the store is called GEEKS not Nerds my bad.
Christmas lights! (Internet pictures)
the base of the tree, our mayor and some highschooler who won international Maths competitions
the tree in front of my University
Okay guys I am going to raid one of your Christmas events.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Irina, Jaz, Hattie, Pepper, Sarah and Pica are all really good at taking pics.
Noah, I want to make a Christmas card from your poochie pic.
Jaz, your hair would look pretty in any color. Except army green. No one pulls that off.
I had green, I loved green. And card away.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Wait, I should put my own kids on a Christmas card. Dur! Maybe photoshop Juju in there. idk hahaa! jk Thanks anyways
But that's a funky cute pup!
I used to wear green lipstick.
Kill me.
She is beautiful. Is that your Christmas angel? You're in trouble. That's perfect form.
I took ballet since I was 3 until teenager. Had audition to NCSA, but was too nervous to do it. So much pressure. Only did film school there one summer.
Yeah, most ballerina are teenagers. By 20, they better have a lead, or part of a major production. If not, pack their bags and move on.
Green hair is good to go. Army green is difficult. Had peacock green, and turquoise in my twenties. That was fun, because the curls were different colors.
My friend had army green and platinum two tone. Like Noah's profile. Didn't work on a girl, everyone thought she was sick all the time, because it cast a jaundice hue on her skin. I would like to see someone pull it off, but haven't as of yet.
I know all about ballerinas already.
Also, I've been corrected. She's sixteen -AND-A-HALF!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*thud*
This is why we can't have nice things.
You should. I'll be in Hawaii and we'll have drugs/alcohol and our very own beach!
Jaz, your hair would look pretty in any color. Except army green. No one pulls that off.
Challenge accepted. Okay maybe not but if I worked in a tattoo shop I totally would die my hair army green. I wear that color almost every day.
Noah heading off to see Jaz on Christmas...
You should. I'll be in Hawaii and we'll have drugs/alcohol and our very own beach!
Jaz, your hair would look pretty in any color. Except army green. No one pulls that off.
Challenge accepted. Okay maybe not but if I worked in a tattoo shop I totally would die my hair army green. I wear that color almost every day.
Jazz, I will sneak into your bag. I can hold up realyl small and you cn just check me, I will pay the fee.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
do it!
Also, I've been corrected. She's sixteen -AND-A-HALF!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*thud*
I've been of the opinion that if you still count your birthdays in halves, you're not old enough to be taken seriously as a person.
What part of this comedy are you not getting?
This is why we can't have nice things.
I'm not getting it.
I'm confused if you are actually crushing on her or if it just hilarious that she came on to you.
It's a cruel joke.
I'm confused if you are actually crushing on her or if it just hilarious that she came on to you.
I was crushing when I thought she was in her twenties and Way Too Young.
Then it elevated to slapstick.
This is why we can't have nice things.
You seem to have very bad luck with women and love, dear.
...
This is why we can't have nice things.
Today was St Nicholas and aside from all the drama I also got a lot of candy from my classmates.
The Kinder Chocolate is from dad, though.
And The Rotters' Club, with Coe's autograph
Why do they give you candy for St. Nicholas when there is a St. Irene that you can celebrate your name day for?
Because here this is the tradition. St Nicholas brings candy.
I get gifts for St Irene and St Marina.
I grew up with St Nicholas but most people I know have never heard of it. I convinced my wife to start the tradition with our kids--we gave each a toy (we always received small toys), candy (this must be legit because you, Irina, receive candy too, and we're bringing back an orange (my father grew up poor-he always said that all he and his brother recived in their stockings when they were little was an orange). Do you know the origins of St Nicholas day? For us, it was always the time to write Santa a letter telling him what we want for Christmas.
I know the origins, I know the story with the old man and his daughters who wanted to sell themselves for the family's well-being, and St Nicholas came that night and left them money in their shoes.
It IS legit. We had the orange thing, too. When we were kids (18-20 years ago) we used to put oranges and walnuts in the tree, because they were very rare, especially during the first years after the Revolution. This is why when I was a year old I called oranges a childspeak variant of 'fir tree'. Because I saw them in the tree.
Our kids always get an orange in their stoking too, but on Christmas day.
James' idea and thing, from growing up so poor he always got one if no other goodies in his stocking and it is just a fond memory thing for him, as well, his grandpa's affinity for oranges. I am glad it us a good memory and not a bad one.
Yes!
And you really don't look like a little girl at all like you are always saying. You might be tiny, but you definitely look like a woman.