Before Christmas
1. Does your family send out Christmas cards? Yes! This year they were out on November 29th!
2. How soon do you start shopping? Usually in November!
3. Who do you shop for? Our Families!
Decorations
4. Do you put up a Christmas tree? Yes! This year it was up a week before Thanksgiving! I think I’m a little excited it’s our first Christmas in this house!
5. If so, is it fake or real? Fake!
6. Do you like tinsel? NO! It is way to messy for me!
7. Do you use homemade or storebought ornaments? Both! would love to have all handmade ornaments!
8. Do you put Christmas lights outside your house? Yes! My husband did a good job this year!
9. Do you put lights on the tree? It is a pre-lit tree with 1300 lights!
10. How about popcorn and cranberries? No, but I would love to do it one year!
11. Is there a wreath hanging on your door? Yes, Thanks to my sister :)
Christmas Eve
12. Do you celebrate it? Christmas Eve has always been my FAVORITE day of the entire year!
13. Do you hang up your stocking? Not on Christmas Eve, they are already hung up!
14. Does your family read "Twas the night before Christmas?" No, but I should get that book and we should start reading it!
Favorite
15. Christmas Movie – When I was little I had so many favorites, and I still do, I love watching all the Christmas Movies on the Hallmark channel! My favorite movies were/are; All I want for Christmas, Prancer, White Christmas, The Santa Claus and HOME ALONE! I like the Christmas Letter too :)
16. Character from any Christmas Movie – Macaulay Culkin – Home Alone!
17. Christmas Song - Oh so many to name, we have really liked Josh Groban's Christmas CD lately!
18. Christmas Memory – Christmas Eve at my Grandma and Grandpa’s when we were little! I remember hearing on the radio that Santa was a couple of towns away! I would get so scared and cry to my parents that we needed to go home and get to sleep so Santa would come to our house and not miss us because we weren’t sleeping! Then on the way home we would go and look at Christmas Lights through all of the neighborhoods, I remember telling my dad, just go home so santa comes!!!!!! I will never forget that, haha I have to laugh about it now!
This or That
19. Give or Receive? Hands down…….GIVE
20. Eggnog or Cider? Both
21. Red or Green? Green
22. Ham or Turkey? ham, but only with my FIL's dressing! or dark meat turkey!
23. Star or Angel? Star
24. White Lights or Colored Lights? white
25. Blinking Lights or Still Lights - Still
26. Were you Naughty or Nice this year? Nice, of course!
Presents
27. What do you want for Christmas this year? An embroidery sewing machine!
28. When do you open your gifts? Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!
29. What's the best gift you've ever gotten? Oh my Lord…So many!
30. What's the worst gift you've ever gotten? Nothing, it’s the thought that counts!
31. Who gives you the most gifts? Our Parents!
32. Have you ever had a secret Santa? Yep, it wasn’t very secret though!
33. Do you like wrapping gifts? I love it!
Random
34. Do you put change in those red buckets? Yes we do! Gavin loves it!
35. Do you burn a yule log? No, we have never started that tradition! I think I may have eated a chocolate yule log :) but never burned one!
36. Can you name all the reindeer? You know dasher and dancer and prance and vixen. Comet and cupid and donner and blitzen, but do you recall the most famour raindeer of all…Rudolf!
37. Do you bake cookies? Not usually, I am not a big sugar cookie girl!
38. Have you ever seen your mommy kissing Santa Clause? Yes I have :)
39. Have you ever gotten a kiss under the mistletoe? Yep, I have!
40. Do you go caroling? No but I would love to start!
41. Do you drive around and look at the Christmas lights? All the time, we have done it twice so far this year!
42. Have you ever left Santa cookies? Yes, and carrots for the raindeer!
43. Have you ever sat on Santa's lap? Yep
44. Who do you celebrate Christmas with? Our Families!
45. Where do you celebrate Christmas? Our Parent’s Houses!
46. Have you ever had a white Christmas? Every Year!
47. What part of Christmas do you look most foward to? Opening gifts with our families!
48. Have you ever had your picture taken with Santa? Yep
49. Does your family always take a picture at Christmas? Every Year!
50. Have you ever heard the song "Thank God For Kids" by The Oakridge Boys? Yes I have!
Enjoy this survey and do it yourself!!!
I thought it was a really cute idea to use pictures for ornaments, so I decided to make some of my own, here is what I came up with;.JPG)
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I think they turned out cute and our tree has a good 25+ different picture ornaments of our little family from our christmas pictures this year!
The dinosaur train candy wrappers we had made for Gavin's 3rd birthday!
Gavin's Dinosaur cake that I made. I was pleased with how it came out!
Presents!
My wonderful, handsome husband! Such a big Help!
My mom, sister, aunt, and Jessie!
Me, Jen and Jessie! Love these girls!
Kristin and Nolan! Getting ready to watch Gavin open his presents!
He Loves this game!
Gavin got his first musical card! He loves it!
Love his soccer goal, ball and cones!
His awesome baseball chair!!
His gifts!
Singing Happy Birthday! What a cutie!
Love this picture!
I have to say I am beyond delighted with it! I turn it on when I wake up and turn it off when we got to bed! I love to enjoy it! my husband may not like the fact that it is on all day long, but hey...it's only for a month! I have had so many people ask me, 'is that a real tree or fake?'. It is fake, but im so glad it looks real!
Haha, I had to laugh because they are real, but...I finally learned how to make these bows this year and now I want to put them on every present! 
And...guess where I learned how to make them.....YOU TUBE! Seriously...you can learn anything on there!
