National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is my all time favorite Christmas movie. We watched it the day after Thanksgiving to usher in the season (after naps from shopping at 4am of course). Here’s one of my favorite scenes.

Well, last night we were all sitting around watching Fringe, and Jake starting howling nonstop as he ran across the living room towards the kitchen with his tail between his legs. At first we thought he had gotten in a fight with another dog. Then we realized that he was all alone.

Jaque said, “I bet he was chewing on the Christmas tree.” Sure enough, one of the branches of our new tree was not shining with it’s little white lights. That dumb dog electrocuted himself! After we all determined that he was alright, we laughed! Merry Christmas!