On Christmas Eve, my mom was telling one of her friends, Vicki, about the reindeer incident. Well of course Vicki thought it was hilarious like the rest of us. Fast forward a few hours.....we, myself, Chad and my parents, head to a Christmas Eve service (I was really missing New Hope by the way) and then we return home. While at the service we realize that we have yet to watch "Christmas Vacation." This is a tradition in our home to watch this movie each year prior to Christmas. Seeing that we were about 5 hours away from Christmas, we were cutting it pretty close this year. We eat some yummy taco soup and then settle in around the living room for our movie. It is about 11 pm when the movie is over and we all start to head to bed. My mom goes in her bedroom for a brief moment and then comes flying back out yelling, "They did it again, they did it again. The deer are (doing something not nice) to each other." Well we of course all get up and go look out of the window. I had been saying that it would be a lot funnier to see the deer doing this with them lit up. Well, I got my wish.
At first we thought it was the same neighborhood kids that were doing it, but something just wasn't adding up. We were sitting right there with the blinds open watching the movie and not only did they mess with the deer, but they also unplugged one of the snowmen and brought it up to the front porch. They plugged it in on the porch and had it facing the front door. We thought that if it were the same kids, they were awful brave. At any moment we could have turned around and seen them.
Dad goes out and fixes things back to the way they were. Later, he also said, "You see why I haven't wanted to put up decorations outside." I thought that was pretty funny.
The next day, Christmas, my mom and dad's friends come over for Christmas dinner. These friends would include Vicki, her husband Doug and their three boys (2 of which are teenagers and one that is almost a teenager). We already had our suspicions that they were involved, but didn't know for sure. We found out that night that while they did not mess with the deer the first time, it was indeed them that messed with it the second time. Not only was it them, but Vicki (the mom) was the one that thought it up. Her husband drove the getaway car while her and the boys had their fun. My favorite part is how they choose to let my mom know they had done it. One of my mom's gifts from Vicki was a picture of the indecent reindeer, in a Christmas frame and wrapped up all nice!! We all got a good laugh out of that and now I pity Vicki and her family. My dad does not let pranks go unnoticed!!
By the way, the picture posted above is from the first time. I don't have a copy of the reindeer at night with the lights on yet, but I will!!!
Oh yeah, sorry about the shadow in the pic, my dad couldn't find a way to get a picture without the shadow.
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