This year I signed up for the Secret Santa gift exchange sponsored by Georgie and Amy over at Decisionally Challenged one of my most favorite blogs. I held off from joining until Georgie invited me so what the heck I went for it. It looked to be almost all women, which is not a problem for me. I like women, I love hanging around with them. I think they are great and have always gotten along well with them. I like hanging around with guys also but women just add that little extra zing to things. Especially my wife Sweetie, she puts the Z in zing.

Anyways after I signed up then the anxiety starts. What am I going to buy for the exchange? I’m just no good at picking out scented candles and other smelly items or useless little soaps and stuff like that. The person I’m going to buy for is going to be so disappointed in  rolls of camo duct tape, tshirts,  fishing cap led lights and stuff like that. Luckily I got paired with somebody who would I think appreciate stuff like that. She was very gracious about it when she blogged about it. The stuff probably ended up in a dirty santa exchange but hey that’s life.

So, then I waited for my little soaps, pot pourri, and candles, maybe a book mark or a bodice ripper romance novel. Hey, I was ready for anything and then Sweetie called me and said my Secret Santa gift had arrived. I got home and sure enough I had a package waiting for me.

I opened it up and guess what?

It is a Guppie Multi-Tool!

Its has a knife, a multi-bit screw driver, wrench, flashlight, and a beer bottle opener.

This tool is going to get used a lot. It’ll be perfect for repairing geocaches and stuff around the house and office. I’m going to carry it wherever I go. It’s wonderful.

Thank you Secret Santa. Your gift is very thoughtful and generous. I appreciate it very much.

Thank you Georgie and Amy.

Can I joing again next year?

Big Secret in town. Tulsa is having a Winterfest in downtown Tulsa right next to the BOK center. No lie, go check it out here.

I had to go check this out. Its not a rumor, its true! They have a Christmas tree and an ice rink.  It was pretty lonely the day I was there. But I don’t think they counted on much happening during the workday anyway.

Here is the ice rink.

Hey who has the Christmas Spirit yet?

Hey SuperPizzaBoy!! You feeling it!!

LJ? What about you?!

Ginger, the Christmas Dog?

Well, I’m into it!!

Lets leave all those grouchy ones and go look at some lights!

Then lets watch “White Christmas” with Bing and the gang.

Lets go do a little shopping. Sometimes you find find out about your kids when you go shopping. Sometimes you find about your friends also. Sometimes … (you get the picture) For example, son SPB spent some time with his friend Michael. Michael’s mother is my friend Baloney. You remember her right? The Cheater.

Well SPB and I were in his most hated store, Kohls, when we walked by the Snuggie counter. They are like a throw with arms made into them. Well, SuperPizzaBoy picks one up and says:

Baloney, what are exposing my child to??!! I mean besides sentences ending in prepositions?

What do you do to get in the Christmas Spirit? I mean for those who celebrate Christmas.

Time to make some gingerbread cookies! SuperPizzaBoy turns into SuperGingerBreadCookieBoy this time of year. Gramps is checking out the action. You know there is kind of a resemblance between pizza dough and gingerbread cookie dough. Kind of, I don’t think pizza sauce would work to well on the cookies though.

You can tell the kid knows what he is doing.

They look very pretty in the pan, but you know, the proof is in the eating.

Now, the tree. We got a new high tech, pre-lighted, narrow model this year. But you still have to decorate it.

Everything has to be placed with care.

I hope that you are having half as much fun as we are!