Merry Xmas!
*Is it cold or hot in Tulsa at Christmas?*
Zac: Well, every once in a while we get snow. But it's kinda more like slush.
Isaac: (In a weatherman voice) Tulsa has interesting weather cos we're in the middle of the States! We often get cold fronts from Colorado.
Tay: Yeah, then all of a sudden it'll be warm. It's been boiling on Christmas Day Loads of times in Tulsa.
Zac: But, but BUT...
Tay: Yeah, OK Zac, yeah, sometimes it'll be freezing, it's like you'll go out and...
Zac: It's 85 degrees one day but the next day it could be 15!
Isaac: Hey guys , that's a little extreme. Let's just say it generally quite cold!
*Have you ever had a white Christmas?*
Zac: (starts to sing at top of voice) I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...
Isaac: That's what everyone wishes for but I don't think we've had one. It does snow but not
usually on Christmas Day.
*Do you go sledging when it does snow?*
All: YEAH!
Tay: We live on a really big hill so we go sledging all the time. We have the really fast
ones- they're made out of plastic, not like thoes old-fashioned wooden ones.
Zac: Unfortunately we've spilt most of them in haf though. We're like 'Aahh, I'm gonna
fall through!'
Isaac: Luckily, we haven't broken any bones yet- but Tay once broke his arm going
downhill on his bike.
*So, do you Hansons go in for a traditional Christmas?*
Isaac: Oh no, I'd say we have a very untraditional Christmas! But we do really get into
totally decorating the house.
Zac: We have like, massive decorations in our house. They're huge!
Tay: Our living room is right in the middle of the house and it has really high
ceilings. So we get bows and huge greenery and arch them all around.
Zac: Yeah, and last year we had a huge tree. Actually we have a huge tree every
year, at least ten feet high!
*Do you all sing round the piano at Christmas?*
Tay: No, not the piano exactly, but our house is extremely musical so we're almost
blasting music out. Some people have a bit of music in the background but...
Zac: With our house it's, like, if you're watching TV you have to feel like you're
actually in the TV- which means you have to have it on full blast.
Tay: Just like the stereo!
Zac: Everything is loud in the Hanson household, especially at Christmas!
*So, what's for Christmas dinner at the Hanson house, then?*
Tay: Well, it's usually Christmas Eve when we have proper Christmas dinner. We get
together with all our family- we have loads of cousins, aunts and uncles -and have a huge
dinner. We have turkey and stuff.
Zac: But we don't have Christmas puddings like you guys do!! We tried one once when
we finished Snowed In and it was delicious! And you have crackers which are so much
fun! We bought loads to save for Christmas when we go back to Tulsa!
Isaac: We do the whole tradtional thing on Christmas Eve, get that out of the way
and then we have Christmas Day to do our stuff- you know, like concentrate on our
presents!
*You don't have a turkey roast on Christmas Day?*
Isaac: Not usually, we used to go to our Grandma's for Christmas dinner and she would
cook amazing turkey dinners and huge cherry pies.
Tay: But since she died we've celebrated at our house- all our family come round.
Christmas day is just a big party, but we don't eat traditional food.
Zac: We have like pizza and baked beans and stuff!
Tay: One year we even had Chinese food! The most important thing to us is that
we all get together and play with our presents!
*Erm, presents seem to play a large part in the Hanson Christmas? What's on your lists
this year?*
(They each begin to reel off their lists, all at the same time, obv!)
Zac: Motorbikes! Actually all I have on my list this year is a motorcycle! It's for
Christmas and my birthday! That's all I want!!
Tay: Yeah! We want motorcycles! In Oklahoma there's a lot of land where you can go
and ride around in fields. We wanna get dirtbikes!
*Are you always given the gifts you ask for?*
Tay: Last year we got just about everything we wanted!
Zac: But you're always going to get at least one thing you ask for!
Isaac: I'm putting some Nerf guns on my list this year. They're these toy guns
that you fire foam ball and paint from. They're brilliant fun.
Tay: We've been through hundreds of them but they break easily. All our friends
come round and we have massive Nerf wars in the living room.
Ike: (Becoming more and more excited at the thought of Nerf action) Yeah, we pull
all the cushions off the sofa and make barricades! It's brilliant! We cause chaos in
the house!
*What time do all of you get up on Christmas morning?*
Zac: As early as possible!
Tay: (looking glum) Yeah, but our parents are always asleep for ages- until
about nine. they never get up early enough. We have to wait around until they
come downstairs and all the family are before we can open our presents.
Isaac: We have our gifts downstairs round the tree. But the thing is we're really
good at sussing out our presents before Christmas day.
Tay: Generally by the time Christmas comes we know every single thing we've been given!
Zac: We shake the boxes to find out! We can always tell what's what!
*Do you buy presents for each of your brothers and sisters?*
Zac: Generally we'll team up and buy a present from all of us. And we'll write on
the tag that it's from the whole family or from Santa.
Isaac: We often have a much better idea about what eachother wants than mom and dad
do. So, I'll try and find out what Tay would really like then I'll go with my mom and dad
to get it.
Tay: Yeah, and when we're given presents we share them anyway because we share a bedroom.
*Isn't it a bit crowded in your room when you all have your new toys?*
Isaac: Well, our room is pretty small! It does get a bit squashed with all three of us
and our toys, clothes and stuff in it.
Tay: We're going to have to think of a way to rearrange our room because we haven't
been home for about three months- we'll come back and it'll seem really small compared
to hotel rooms.
Zac: We're all squished in there- it's full of Lego castles- and we'll get more Lego
this year too!
Isaac: Yep, we only use our room to sleep and play Lego in! We have a school room
where we keep our TV and computer games. We're either in there or in our stodio downstairs.
Tay: The worst thing is that our baby brother Mackie shares our parents' room but he's
probably gonna move in with us once Mom has her baby.
Zac: Oh no! He'll be like 'YAK lak balak' (Continues to impersonate a robot-like baby bro!)
*What do you consider to be your best ever Christmas presents?*
Zac: Last year was the best year because...
Tay: We asked for these huge remots control cars and a remote control motorcycle. They're
this big! (Stretches arms as wide as Zac's body length)
Isaac: Tay's exaggerating, they weren't that big. We ended up with five remote control
cars and they caused chaos. It was brilliant.
EXTRA!!!!!
IF YOU'RE IN THE HANSON HOUSE AT CHRISTMAS BEWARE OF...
*Taylor stoking the fire*
Taylor: One time I was messing with the fire and I was trying to make the flames bigger so
I hit this log and this huge coal thing flew out onto the carpet! I was trying to get it off
but it burnt a huge hole!
Zac: It's OK though, we have a chair over it now. We couldn't hide it from our parents,
they walked in just as we were trying to get it off the rug!
Isaac: Actaully we're all pyromaniacs!!
*Their remote control cars*
Isaac: We were playing with our cars in a parking lot last year and the battery on mine died.
It started rolling down a slope and then all of a sudden we saw this other remote control car
coming out at speed and it just went CRASH!
Zac: It went, like, CRASHIBUKLIKUKSHARCRASH!!!
Isaac: Hmmm, we actually rebuilt the car and it carried on for about two months but then it
died.
Zac: (Zac goes into hysterical pretend sobbing!) OUR LITTLE CAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!
*Lending them your Barbie Doll*
Tay: Last year we dressed a Barbie doll up as an angel and stuck her on top of the tree! It
Looked painful for her, ha ha!
Isaac: Hey, it wasn't our Barbie you know! It was Avery's!
Zac: We were, like, 'Hey, Avery, Merry Christmas- go try and get your Barbie.'
Isaac: The girls have loads of Barbies so they don't mind us borrowing one. It looked really cool, almost quite creative.