Oh-no-ments

Isn't that clever?  How I turned the word ornaments into oh-no-ments?
Gumshoe and I have some of the silliest ornaments in existence.  You know those ornaments that are old and silly, but totally sentimental?  We have a lot of those and as I was putting up the Christmas tree the other day, I realized how random our tree is.  I mean, really...

We've got the classic spray-painted macaroni ornament courtesy of me about 24 years ago:

Then there's the upside down ornament:

Everyone loves a good deceased-mouse-pun to hang on their tree...it's also safe for the kids to play with:

Then there's the knit mailbox circa 1981 (my favorite, actually):

It still has a little letter in it that I wrote to my family forever ago (misspelled words and all).  Do you love my free-hand scroll work on the top?  And the poetry...very Robert Frost-esque if I do say so myself:

And who doesn't have two members of a clothespin mariachi band painted with their sisters' names?  What?

We have a leterhosen-wearing teddy bear ornament:

A Hansel and Gretel/Jack and Jill/Apple tree Christmas ornament:

An ornament paying homage to Gumshoe's favorite football team growing up.  And no...neither of us have ever lived anywhere near Michigan.  He loved Barry Sanders and still quotes all of his stats to me as we watch our miserable football team play each Sunday.  Go Chiefs!

And finally, the shrunken elf-head ornament...the dog ate the rest of it and we thought it would be funny to keep this creepy memento:

And just for kicks...after I took all these pics, I looked over to find LG playing with his cars like so:

Someone's getting some smaller pants for Christmas!