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!!!