Christmas 2005

We tried again to keep with tradition by getting a tree and baking cookies, only this time, Hexus ruined Christmas!  Or so I like to think.  As soon as we brought in the tree, he was all over it.  At first it was kind of funny, but later when he had some alone time, we came back to the house to find that the bottom half of the ornaments had been scattered all over the house.  After replacing them and seeing the same result the next morning, we decided to move them all to the upper half of the tree…which didn’t work either.  Again, Hexus managed to knock off a great majority of them, so finally I removed all the bulbs and left only our keepsake ornaments at the very crown of the tree. Then, Hexus proceeded to start chewing and yanking on the lights, so after only about 5 days, our tree went from fully decorated to no ornaments and a blob of lights at the very top, which we never turned on for fear the cat would electrocute himself…thus Hexus ruined Christmas!

Maria trimming the tree
Hexus helping out as usual
Hexus spreading some holiday cheer!
Hexus now hiding for fear of Maria's wrath!
Us infront of Hexus' soon-to-be play thing!