Say Cheese... Now Smile!

After reading the first few chapters about a month or so ago, I FINALLY finished The DaVinci Code early this morning. Argh. I did it again. I started reading on page 36 at 1am and I kept on saying "one more chapter" until I one more chaptered to the end of the book, page 452, several hours later with birds chirping outside my window. But WOW. There was NO WAY I was putting that book down... What a read! :)

Well worth the sleepless night.

Not really. That's just straight up NERDY.

But its still a really good book. :)

Anyways, since we finished throwing up Christmas in the house... we decided that today we'll take care of the outside. What first started as a simple strand of twinkle lights on the fence has blown up into this winterwonderland of crack. But its a nice winterwonderland of crack. :) Carlene and I remembered today that the neighborhood has a yearly Christmas Light Decorating contest... and we're determined to win. We even went so far to drive up and down the street to scope out the competition... HAHA. Actually, we're not THAT crazy and not mean-spirited at all. (But really, we drove up and down the street.)

It's gonna be hard this year, one of our neighbors across the street has a semi-huge inflatable snowman family (think MACY'S balloon) on their lawn AND twinkle lights on the second floor of their roof. DAMMIT! We don't have a ladder to compete with that! What we DO have is the green spiral modern interpretation of a tree, an itty bitty reindeer by it with flashing legs to make it look like its walking and our parol (see Filipino Christmas star). I really don't know what else we can do besides getting a lifesize manger scene and adding some Christmas lobsters and octopus.

Actually, we're having a terrific time working together decorating and getting those lights up... so even if we lose, its ok.

Wow. Talk about cheesy. :)