Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy Holidays

Just wanted to post a few of our highlights from our Christmas festivities this year.

Scavenger hunt


Jenna being sneaky

Little Miss Rolly Polly

Morgan's First Christmas (momma forgot her hairbow...oops!)


An attempt to get a family pic

Santa Came!

Me and my sisters

The Potts Clan (yeah, so what if we're hillbilly and have a deer with a santa hat on in the background! You just wish you were this cool!)


All in all we had a wonderful Christmas and great fellowship with our family, even though we all had a nasty stomach bug.

I'm actually kind of sad its over, but I'm really looking forward to the Spring now!!!

Friday, December 19, 2008

Christmas Time Is Here

Egg nog or hot chocolate? Hot chocolate, but egg nog is good too!

Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa puts presents under the tree. What fun would it be if you couldnt try to sneak a peak of what he left?

Colored lights on tree/house or white? I think the white lights are more traditional but having kids, the colored lights are more fun! However, we still hang the white lights at our house.

Do you hang mistletoe? Actually, no. I have never even thought about it!

When do you put your decorations up? Right after Thanksgiving, or soon after. I love Christmas music and decor!

Favorite holiday memory as a child? Sneaking into the living room to see what Santa brought us in the middle of the night. One year, (mom and dad knew us too well), me and my sisters tried to sneak a peak only to find that Santa had wrapped all the gifts and put color codes on them! Nobody knew what gift was theirs b/c Santa only left the code with Mom and Dad!

When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I guess I figured it out on my own, I was prob around 10 or so.

How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Mostly red and gold with some silver. Jenna got to help decorate this year and that was so much fun! So if you're at my house and see this one spot that the tree limb swags way low and has about 20 ornaments on, just smile and carry on. Jenna was so proud of herself! I wouldnt dare change it!

Snow! Love it or dread it? I love it but hate getting out in it. I'd love to have a white Christmas, but I guess that's unlikely to happen. We're more likely to get ice than snow anyhow.

Do you remember your favorite gift? As a child, my favorite gift was probably our trampoline! I loved that thing! And since marriage? That's hard. I love all the gifts I recieve and its so much more than recieving gifts now. I truely understand and try to live in the reason/meaning of Christmas now. But just to say one gift, I'd have to say my fuzzy blanket!

What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you? Getting together with the family to worship Him and celebrate his birth. That's most important always! Then comes the food and gifts, lol!

What is your favorite holiday dessert? Oh, let's see...well, I can't just pick one. I love ALL deserts! Did someone say fudge? Oh yeah baby! I need some fudge, buckeyes, mounds balls, brittle...

What is your favorite holiday tradition? Christmas shopping on Black Friday with Mom and my sisters, Christmas Eve with my grandparents, Waking up at 6am sharp on Christmas morning, and I hope to start new traditions now that we have two small kiddos. One is that we will have an "Elf" that will magically appear in different places in the house until Christmas. His objective is to watch the girls and report back to Santa whether they've been bad or good. It will be fun to see where all "Elf" will choose to hide, lol! (yeah, I kinda stole that idea from Angie Smith).

Which do you prefer, giving or receiving? I love giving. Shopping for other's is so much fun and the reward of seeing them so surprised is so great!

What is your favorite Christmas song? I love Silent Night, but Jenna's favorite is "you better watch out" or whatever it is called. I hear that about a million times a day now!

Candy canes? Are yummy!

Favorite Christmas movie? I'm a weirdo and get freaked out by "antiques" such as Frosty and Rudolph so I'd have to say my favorite is...don't laugh...Home Alone! (seriously, I HATE the Wizard of Oz and Willy Woka)

What do you leave for Santa? Usually cookies and milk. This year Santa, or his reindeer actually, may leave something for us. Reindeer poop! (its actually no-bake cookies)

Well, Merry Christmas everybody!!!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

My Poor Blog

Man, I feel awful! My poor blog page has totally gotten the shaft lately. Its been neglected for way too long. So here I am...writing another blog. The Lee household has just been way too busy lately for much of anything known as free time. Free time? What is that?! Seriously, with the holidays and the food and the shopping and the food and family gatherings...and did I mention the food??? I love the holidays! Let's see, I haven't even updated this thing for Halloween! It was great. We did the usual: rush home from work, set the candy bowl on the sofa table and try very hard to keep Jenna from eating everything in it, Chris pass out candy to our neighbors while I frantically try to get out of my work clothes and dress the girls, then we head out to the church fall fest where we eat hot dogs and popcorn and mingle with friends and family. Jenna was dressed as a nurse and Morgan, well, I'm not too sure what she was. She wore a black and orange tutu, black tights, and had a big Halloween decorated bow in her hair. Oh, and she had a black kitty cat bib on. Jenna said her sister was a kitty cat, so I guess she was a kitty cat. Morgan ended up winning a cosume contest in the outfit so I guess she was cute enough! Morgan also started eating cereal lately (as of November 2nd) and some fruits and veggies. She's a ham! Such a happy baby! She's rolling all over the place and trying to crawl. Why oh why can't she just stay a baby forever?! She's even saying "momma" now! And Jenna's such a little smarty pants. I'm so proud of her in so many ways. She's learned to draw people and let me tell ya. She does a pretty darn good job to just be three years old. Its cute, she has a big ol circle for a head and the arms and legs come out of the head. No body, lol! She even draws fingers and toes. Mind you, her people have about 50 fingers and maybe 3 toes sometimes but you get the idea. On to Thanksgiving. We ate way too much. As usual. I had a great time with my family. Its a tradition every year that me and my sister Donna and Mom all go shopping the day after Thanksgiving to hit the Black Friday deals. We got up Friday morn. at 4 am and off we went. Got great deals and had loads of fun. What girl doesn't love a whole day of shopping with her husband's credit card?!! Shoot, my Christmas shopping was just about done in one day! Speaking of Christmas, that's just around the corner and I'm sooo looking forward to it this year. Its Morgan's first Christmas and I plan to make it special for her and Jenna. Jenna's finally old enough to understand the meaning a little better and she even helped decorate the tree this year. It may not be perfect like the way I would do it, but I find myself smiling inside and thinking of how proud my Jenna was of herself when I see the one branch that has...oh, about 5 ornaments all bundled together. But it's pretty, nonetheless. Now we're looking forward to our annual Christmas party which will also be paired with my little sis's birthday this year. On the 13th, we'll all (friends and family) gather at my house to do a scavenger hunt around town. This should be fun! And then we'll come back for some good eating and Christmas movies. Yeah, we love the Griswalds! So, that about covers it. I have good intentions of not ever neglecting my poor blog again. We'll see if I can stick to it.

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