Thanks for the tag, Jess!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper is ALWAYS better! Rip & Tear!!
2. Real tree or artificial tree? I have a fake tree and I like it just fine.
3. When do you put up your tree? Usually some time during the Thanksgiving weekend, but this year I was late.
4. When do you take the tree down? New Years Day or that first weekend in January. I have to keep my Christmas decorations up as long as I can!!
5. Do you like eggnog? You know, I really haven’t tried it in a few years. I’m thinking that I will try it again this year… I do love the smell!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I actually can’t think of a specific present. But I’m sure it had something to do with horses. (I have to add this, because my mom reminded me of it -I can't believe that I forgot! My Katie Cabbage Patch doll that I got the Christmas that I was 2 still is my most favorite present. I still have her and sometimes she sleeps in my bed with me.) :)
7. Hardest person to buy for? Mother.
8. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes! My mom gave me the Willow Tree nativity last year for a Christmas present! This is my first year to use it and I LOVE it!
9. Mail or e-mail Christmas cards? Mail of course. It’s so fun to get stuff in the mail! (and I still have a billion cards… if anyone wants one…)
10. Favorite Christmas movie? A Christmas Story will always be my favorite. “Not a Finga’!!!!” (But I really like Elf too. It cracks me up!)
11. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Sometime in November. I hope to be done shopping this weekend! Hooray for me!
12. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Actually yes… those lame co-worker gifts.
13. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Oh man… everything! Especially my mom’s homemade toffee!
14. Lights on the tree? Yes, and they are clear. No icky colored lights for me!
15. Favorite Christmas song? So I love all of Amy Grant’s Christmas albums. But I especially love “Breath of Heaven” (remember when you sang that in seminary, Alicen? You are incredible!). I also love Harry Connick, Jr.’s “When My Heart Finds Christmas” and Don Henley’s “Please Come Home For Christmas”. OH!! And I LOVE “Santa Baby”. I love Christmas music!
16. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Thankfully I have always lived near family, so I always get to “go home” for Christmas.
17. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Yes. Yes I can. (But I’m not naming them for all of you people to cheat off of!) There are 9 reindeer.
18. Angel on the tree top or a star? We’ve never had a star or an angel on the top of our tree…. even growing up.
19. Do you open Presents Christmas Eve or Christmas day? We get to open one present on Christmas Eve (it’s usually the sibling gift) and then the rest wait for Christmas morning!
20. The most annoying thing about this time of year? Psycho shoppers! That’s why I’ve done most of my shopping online.
21. Favorite ornament theme and color? I did a “teddy bear” tree this year and I LOVE it! Clear lights, white ribbon, cranberries and little teddy bears that you get from Costco!
22. Favorite for Christmas dinner? My family has always done a ham/turkey dinner (I hate ham, so I’m grateful for the turkey breast my mom does for me!), homemade rolls and pie.
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? To be surprised… so far I know everything that I am getting and it’s very boring. I would love a Garmin Forerunner 305 too!
24. Favorite Christmas tradition? I love the way that my family does Christmas… any other way just doesn’t feel like Christmas to me. Christmas Eve dinner and then we read the Christmas story out of Luke and then someone shares a special Christmas story that usually makes us cry (last year was the best because we told Audrey and Ben that we had opened an “England Baby” account for them that people had been donating to, to help them to pay for in-vitro), then we open the “sister presents” and go to bed. Christmas morning we usually wake up to my mom yelling at everyone “Santa came! Santa Claus came!!!” and then we all head down and grab our stockings (we can open any present that is in our stocking without waiting for anyone) and then when everyone is finally down, we start handing out presents so that everyone has one… then it’s time to unwrap!!! We see what everyone else got and then get handed a new present and keep going until everyone is out of presents. Then we start making a HUGE breakfast (German pancakes & Belgian waffles). I love Christmas at my parent’s house!
So... I'm tagging everyone!!! This one is fun and I want to see what you all say! Courtney, Mel, Tasha, Brighton, Alicen, Shea, Kateka, Emily, Wendy - everyone! If your name is on my blog, then do it!!!
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5 comments:
Um, of course it was you! The other Whitney is in the hospital. :( Merry Christmas, and hello, cute Christmas card!
Hahaha and I love the Christmas Story tribute in your title.
Should your answer for #6 be "Katie" your cabbage patch doll you received when you were 3 years old?
hey whit, Im not on your blog but I do want to do your tag and if you dont want to look at it its all good. I saw you at Taryns wedding reception but you were running out the door.
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