Monthly Archives: December 2010

Dinosaur Christmas Tree & a Cat in a Christmas Sweater?

People have told Chris and I that we look a like.  Do you think it’s pos­sible for two people to start looking alike just because they’re together all the time? Take a look at an old couple. Do you think so?

Here’s a photo of my parents.

Photo by Chris Beauchamp (www.beauchampphotography.ca)

Um? Well, at least my mother doesn’t have a beard.

Earlier in November, with the help of a volun­teer and my mother (who sent the blue ribbon) I designed ideas for dec­or­at­ing a “Dinosaur Christmas Tree” for a fest­ival called “Festival of Trees” in Grande Prairie. I decided to do the tree to help raise aware­ness about the new dino­saur museum we are trying to raise the funds to build in Wembley, Alberta. Check out the future museums website!

Our little 3-foot tree was sold for $100. It made me so happy to see “SOLD” on it, and even happier to see how many people were enjoy­ing it at the festival.

Laura’s “Dinosaur Christmas Tree”, rep­res­ent­ing the museum that will soon be built just outside of Grande Prairie, Alberta. As it stands right now, the museum will be called the, “River of Death & Discovery Dinosaur Museum”. How do you feel about that name? Like it? Don’t? Please let me know your opinion.

Our volun­teer con­struc­ted this crate. We had designed it to have a pile of sand sur­round­ing the base but the people organ­iz­ing the fest­ival wouldn’t put it there. Honestly! How hard is it to clean up some sand?

I hand painted the museums name onto the blue Christmas balls, and found dino­saur bones to hang from the tree!

On Saturday December 11, 2010 Chris and I hosted a grand Christmas Party. We had Christmas crakers, pot-luck, rockin’ Christmas songs and a Chinese gift exchange. It was a mar­velous time. We also had man­dat­ory UGLY Christmas sweat­ers. We made our own ugly Christmas invit­a­tions for our party, so we decided to stick Zappa, our cat, into a Christmas sweater.

Ah, Christmas cheer and spirit even in a cat. Don’t worry we gave him a treat after this humiliation.

He look’s pretty fat.

The gang who made up our Christmas party!

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