CHRISTMAS SURVEY

I’d love to hear about your Holiday traditions, too.
Here are the answers for our family:

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper

2. Real tree or Artificial? REAL! We like to go and cut it ourselves!

3. When do you put up the tree? Hopefully early December--or when we get around to it....We just went and cut down our tree for Family Home Evening this week. It's up but not decorated yet.

4. When do you take the tree down? New Year's Day....or when we get around to it.....one year it was up until almost Valentine's day--but it was okay because it was a small artificial tree with red ornaments and bows...LOL

5. Do you like eggnog? YES!!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Esther--Easy Bake Oven, Bryan--???, Catherine--my first bicycle, Amy--last year she loved boxes and wrapping paper!

7. Hardest person to buy for? Bryan because he buys the stuff he wants for himself and doesn't leave anything on his list for us to buy for him...

8. Easiest person to buy for? Anyone under the age of 3 or AMY

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, several 1- Avon Porcelain collectible Nativity @- Avon Children's plastic Nativity set, and 3- Fisher Price Children's Nativity set

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail (in January)

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Can't think of a single one!

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Mr. Krueger's Christmas with Jimmy Stewart

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Day after Thanksgiving

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? yes... usually for Uncle Itu's present game on Christmas day--it's Hilarious!!

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Cookies and chocolate

16. Lights, clear, all one color, or multi on the tree? Usually white or multi, but I think this year we will do all blue!

17. Favorite Christmas song? Anything by Harry Connick Jr. or Johnny Mathis

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay at home except the year when Amy was born. We traveled to Utah for her baby blessing so that more family could attend.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Absolutely! Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph!!

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? On Christmas Eve, everyone gets new pajamas, (Esther's tradition) and opens one gift (Bryan's tradition). Christmas morning look in our Christmas stockings first, eat the cereal and juice from the stocking and then open all the rest of the presents!

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Children who say they want something for months and months and then change their mind at the last minute when talking to Santa on Christmas Eve at Henry Ford Museum!?!?!

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Patriotic--Red, White and Blue ornaments with iridescent stars on the lights

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham with all the fixin's

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? New Plasma HDTV!! (We've been saving for this one!!)