Christmas Beard

We LOVE traditions. We started about a million so-called "traditions" during the year 2010, and only time will confirm whether or not they live on to be actual traditions, but I have been trying to convince Derrald that the "Christmas Beard" should be one of these traditions that live on through the ages.

It would work like this: Every year, on Thanksgiving Day, Derrald will let his beard grow in and keep on growing it until New Year's Day when he will shave it in a grand ceremony symbolic of the incoming new year and starting things fresh with a clean face... I mean, slate. This year he failed to make it to New Years... but we also failed to sit through the entire length of Handel's Messiah (another tradition we are trying to start)... so it's no biggie. I still managed to get a picture.

Think about how much those kiddies (that's right... one day, against all protests the public may wish to make, we will spawn some ninja children) are going to love it every year? And when it goes white? HULLO Santa. Santa Derrald.

It's going to be awesome.

This is what it looked like this year (drinking $4 hot chocolates from a little old hotel in the middle of Danville...)