SVP Elf
Vince Budd, aka Blinky Bed-Head
Favorite Holiday Movie? Christmas Vacation
Favorite Holiday Treat? Pumpkin Pie
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Playing Santa
How do you Trim your Tree? Wife's favorite scissors
Favorite Reindeer? Rudolph
Healthcare Group Elves
Andy Cuykendall, aka Peppy Mistletoe
Favorite Holiday Movie? It's a Wonderful Life
Favorite Holiday Treat? Pizelle Italian Cookies
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Decorating the tree to Frank Sinatra
How do you Trim your Tree? Lights and ornaments - No tinsel or garland
Favorite Reindeer? Blitzen
Bill Purdy, aka Peppermiz Bingaling
Favorite Holiday Movie? A Christmas Story
Favorite Holiday Treat? Bourbon Eggnog
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Fondue on Christmas Eve
How do you Trim your Tree? Generations of hand-made ornaments. NO TINSEL!
Favorite Reindeer? Vixen
Marketing Elves
Ninh Nguyen, aka Bijou Mistletoe
Favorite Holiday Movie? Home Alone
Favorite Holiday Treat? Pumpkin Pie
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Ice skating outside at the uptown rink
How do you Trim your Tree? I'm eco friendly -- I have a plastic one
Favorite Reindeer? Dancer-- since I like the show "So you think you can dance"
Brooke Sanders, aka Nipper Tum-Tums
Favorite Holiday Movie? Elf
Favorite Holiday Treat? Chocolate Peanut Squares, Breakfast Casserole
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Sitting in front of the fire, reading a book, and drinking hot chocolate with the Christmas tree lit up and Christmas music playing in the background
How do you Trim your Tree? Christmas ornaments that my mom has bought me--one every year since I was born
Favorite Reindeer? Rudolph
Verbal Branding Elves
Ashley Hollingsworth, aka Zippy Angel-Pants
Favorite Movie: Elf
Favorite Treat: Chocolate covered cherries…sometimes I think I might be the only one that feels this way.
How do you trim your tree? Balls, lights, a big giant star and strings of little red beads.
Favorite Tradition: Baking cookies for Santa
Favorite Reindeer: Comet
Maghan Cook, aka Batty Bing-a-Ling
Favorite Movie: A Very Brady Christmas
Favorite Treat: Chocolate Covered Pretzels
How do you trim your tree? Colored lights (LED, of course), and a flimsy, too-small, slightly crooked star on top because it makes me laugh
Favorite Tradition: Cinnamon rolls first thing Christmas morning
Favorite Reindeer: Donner and Blitzen (because, NERD ALERT, I learned recently mean Thunder and Lightning in German)
Jenna Wise, aka Bouncy Candy-Lips
Favorite Movie: A Christmas Story
Favorite Treat: Moms Fruit Cocktail / Dream Whip Salad
Favorite Tradition: 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TNT, I watch the movie once on Christmas Eve and NO LESS than four times on Christmas Day (what?)
What do you trim your tree with? Colors for the last few years have been silver, dark blue and teal plus the introduction of a new ornament every year.
Favorite Reindeer: Vixen, duh. And Dancer. It's too hard to choose!
Joanne Lee, aka Cheerful Tum-Tums
Favorite Movie: The Year Without Santa Claus
Favorite Treat: White Trash
Favorite Tradition: Egg hunt! ... no, that's not right... Fireworks! ... no, no, doesn't sound right either ... Drinking green beer! Yes, that's it.
What do you trim your tree with? Hedge Clippers :)
Favorite Reindeer: Blitzen-- cuz he must drink lots of eggnog (and green beer) with a nickname like that.
Paula Weigel, aka Dingy Twinkle-Toes
Favorite Movie: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Favorite Treat: Philly Cheese Balls & Brie Bites (no way I can pick just one)
Favorite Tradition: Decorating the day after Thanksgiving.
What do you trim your tree with? Hand-made ornaments from my childhood
Favorite Reindeer: Donner ... or Donder ... whatever his name is, I like it!
Verbal Branding Director Elf
Amy Baynard, aka Lucky Sugar-Socks
Favorite Holiday Movie? White Christmas. The scene where Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye lip-sync “Sisters” with their pant legs rolled up and whack each other with huge, blue-feathered fans always makes me laugh.
Favorite Holiday Treat? Chipped Beef Cheese Ball. I know it sounds very sketchy but is delish. Mom makes it because – in her words – it’s “christmasy” (red chipped beef and green onions encasing a lump of cream cheese)
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Stockings first! Even though my brother and I are in our 30s, Santa still fills our stockings and we always open them first.
How do you trim your Tree? That's kind of personal, don't you think? :)
Favorite Reindeer? Blitzen. Just sounds like someone who knows how to have a good time.
Admin Elf
Becky Leonard, aka Zippy Twinkle-Toes
Favorite Holiday Movie? A Christmas Carol and Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Favorite Holiday Treat? Christmas Cookies
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Cooking Christmas Eve dinner for my family, at my brother's house, and watching the kids open presents
How do you Trim your Tree? with sentimental ornaments while listening to Johnny Mathis Christmas songs
Favorite Reindeer? Rudolph, of course, because he remembers those heartbreaking tears of the misfit toys, and he leads Santa's sleigh to stop at the Island of Misfit Toys so those poor little toys can find homes!
Visual Branding Elves
Nick Irwin, aka Happy Bedhead
Favorite Holiday Movie? It's a Wonderful Life, Elf, and Bad Santa
Favorite Holiday Treat? Eggnog (the good kind)
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Giving Gifts
How do you Trim your Tree? With my bare hands!
Favorite Reindeer? Blitzen
Cathleen Foley, aka Merry Mistletoe
Favorite Holiday Movie? Charlie Brown's Christmas
Favorite Holiday Treat? Pumpkin Cake
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Getting together at the same beach house we rent every year with our entire extended family!
How do you Trim your Tree? Ornaments my family has collected from travels over the years
Favorite Reindeer? Vixen
Visual Branding Manager Elf
Kristin Everidge, aka Beaker Twinkle-Toes
Favorite Holiday Movie? Elf
Favorite Holiday Treat? Ham Delights
Favorite Holiday Tradition? Drinking wassail (hot spiced punch) at my grandmothers on Christmas Eve. I only get to have it once a year
What do you trim your tree with? Ornaments collected over the years.
Favorite Reindeer? Rudolph!
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Beagle on a Mission
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Watch your heads as the Flying Ace glides down the parade route! That’s right, fans, in honor of the PEANUTS® 60th Anniversary, Snoopy™ returns to the Macy’s Parade making a record 34th appearance. Donning binoculars, an aviator’s cap, a pair of goggles and his signature red scarf, the Flying Ace is geared up for yet another face-off with the elusive Red Baron. The Flying Ace is the sixth helium-filled iteration of the canine Peanuts gang member, preceded by Millennium Snoopy, Snoopy & Woodstock, Skating Snoopy, Astronaut Snoopy and Aviator Snoopy.
Accompanying the pilot pooch from the ground will be his dog house, festooned as the air traffic control tower, and Woodstock as the air traffic control chief who guides the whooshing tail-wagger down the avenue. On the float, surveying the fantastic battle between the aviating hound and the evasive Red Baron, will be Charlie Brown, Lucy and Linus.
Fun Facts: United Feature Syndicate’s Snoopy the Flying Ace stands at 52 feet high, 25 feet wide and 49.5 feet long. He is filled with 15,000 cubic feet of helium. That’s a dog I wouldn’t want to be standing under on Thanksgiving Day. Just sayin'.