#christmas queue

What are their favourite winter activities?

So, first off, I do believe that all of the boys do know how to ski or snowboard. I really do see Reid, Tyler, Pogue, and Caleb all heading to a local ski place to snowboard together, really making a day of it. It’s something they all enjoy, especially since there’s always a little bit of competition to it between them all.

Pogue’s the one who likes winter the least. He’s not a big fan of the cold and he’s especially not a fan of the ice and snow. It means putting away his bike for the season and it’s something he dreads every year. However, there is one perk that does come with the snowy winter season and that’s snowmobiles. They’re not as good as his bike but they’re almost there. He loves heading out, either with friends or by himself, often spending hours out snowmobiling, seeing just how fast he can go. If he’s driving by himself, he might take a lot more risks in his driving, finding fun in the thrill of near misses, than he will with someone with him.

Caleb’s favourite winter activity is something he’d be a little embarrassed to admit. He really likes building snowmen and playing in the snow. He kind of misses when they were all young enough to still want to build snowmen, to have snowball fights, and to just dick around out in the snow. Now the winters seem colder, no one has snow pants, making snowmen is considered uncool. Still, he builds one himself up by his parents, since the boys don’t go up there often except for Pogue, who won’t really make fun of Caleb for having built one like Reid would do. He does, however, manage to instigate a snowball fight with the others every year, despite them claiming they hate them. He’s got a great arm and once one of the others get hit by a well-timed snowball in the back of their head or to their butt, Caleb knows they just can’t resist.

Tyler has a weird one, but since he’s started driving, he really finds that he likes long winter drives. He doesn’t want to drive in a full white-out blizzard or anything, though he knows he could, but a drive on a quiet winter day, with light snow coming down? It’s wonderful to him. There’s something calming and beautiful, in his mind, with the white flakes hitting the windshield, hearing the sound of the car’s tire’s crunching over the snow, heated seat nice against his legs, maybe some low Christmas music coming from the radio, just driving to nowhere in particular as he watches the world slowly get coated in white. Top it up to a stop at some random diner he discovers for a meal and he’s in heaven.

Reid’s parents have a hot tub that they maintain all year long and one of his favourite things in winter is to get in the hot tub. While it is protected by a roof and two walls (there’s sliding glass doors leading from the house to this enclosure that make up the back wall), he likes the contrast of the hot water and jets relaxing his muscles and warming him up with the cool air outside. It’s even better if he can manage to sneak a drink or two from the family’s well-stocked bar. Enjoying the hot tub with a stiff drink in hand, watching the snow fall and just relaxing? There’s nothing better.

Every year, I post Christmas Music leading up to the holiday.

I have done it different ways over the years. I've had one a day, two a day, I have done times where I just FILLED a post with videos.

This year, a lot going on, so I have decided to go Quality over Quantity: if you've been following me a while, you've seen most of my playlists. So instead of dragging them out all over again?

I am going to do an Advent Calendar of my Favorites. A video a day, December 1 through December 24, with one of my favorite Christmas videos, and a discussion of why that one is so important to me.

As always, I will be tagging with #Christmas Queue so those who just don't want to see it can filter it out.

I'll probably reblog this a couple times this month, and then start on December 1.