Christmas With Your Friends!

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. (Thanks Aimee!) Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, & try not to be a SCROOGE! Copy this entire post & paste onto your own new post! Change all the answers so they apply to you. Then tag a bunch of people you know....Tis the Season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper!! And not just throwing it together! Oh no, it must be good paper so that you can get a perfect crease... and then top it with ribbon tied just right! Aaaah, you guessed it! I am so incredibly OCD when it comes to wrapping gifts. I know you are saying that no one cares and they will only tear it off, but that doesn't stop me! I can't help it! There is nothing like beautifully wrapped gifts.

2. Real tree or Artificial? I am an artificial girl! I would love to do a real tree, actually! I think I am just scared I would kill it 2 weeks before Christmas! (I have never claimed to have a green thumb) We never had real trees growing up and I have no idea how to maintain one of those suckers!! Also, I won't lie that having one pre-lit saves me a lot of grief!!

3. When do you put up the tree? I try to get it done the day after Thanksgiving. When all the other suckers in the world are braving the stampedes at the stores, I am chillin in the comfort of my home, hanging ornaments...

4. When do you take the tree down?

Usually sometime the first week in January. I am not one to leave it up too long. The outdoor lights are a different story... Since I vote myself out of that job, I won't complain when it happens as long as it is before Mother's Day. Lol. Actually, I think this is the 2nd time we have ever done lights outside!! Thanks to Dylan for begging!!

5. Do you like Egg Nog? Gag, gag! NOOOOOO!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? My mom made us Pound Puppies one year. We knew we were getting them, because she couldn't hide her craftiness... they took too long. I wish I still had it... Just to prove that my mom has actually sewn in her lifetime.

7. Hardest person to buy for? Parents. I swear. They all have everything, and the stuff that I think would be beneficial for them, they don't share the same opinion... I have given up and just try to give updated pics of my kids every year. I know. I am pathetic.

8. Easiest person to buy for? Dylan. This year, all he wants is a jack-in-the-box and a sling to carry his arrows. He is so funny!

9. Do you have a nativity scene? I am still searching for one that is not tacky...

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? this is assuming that I am on top of it enough to send anything in the first place...

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? My Great Grandma used to give us HUGE granny panties every year!!! Oh, how we dreaded getting those... bless her heart... oh, how I miss them now. Funny how the things you despised are the things you miss the most. Funny little Gram.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? #1: Elf. Who doesn't like this movie?? Hilarious. #2: Christmas Story (Aimee, I am dying that you haven't seen this!!)

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Oh, you know... maybe next week?? Uh, when I get around to it...

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No, but sometimes I give Dylan presents he got for his birthday that I put away. He gets so many and forgets about some, so they make a new appearance at Christmas or as someone else's birthday gift... I know. That is horrible!

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Sausage Rolls and Fin and Hatti... I don't even know if I spelled that right. It is smoked cod. I know you are probably sicked out right now, but it is really good and its one of those OLD family traditions...

16. Lights on the tree? Yep!! Pre-lit, Baby

17. Favorite Christmas song? Bare Naked Ladies and Sarah McLaughlin God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel everywhere possible with in the Salt Lake Valley. I wish we could stay home!! We did last year, cuz everyone left town but us! IT WAS HEAVEN!!

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

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Neither. I have a bunch of flowers and twigs and crap up there... slightly more nontraditional.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning!! That's the point, isn't it??

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? People who are stingy. I used to work at ZCMI. They used to do the Angel Tree there. (I don't know if they still do now that it has been so many other stores) At any rate, I used to try to help them generate a little business for the tree when I was slow at my counter. You would not believe most of the people!! They would be walking around with over a thousand dollars of merchandise just purchased and they would tell me they didn't have the money to do it!! What the EFF?? Most of those people only needed like $15-$20. BAH!!! SCROOGES!! #2 most annoying thing is people who go way overboard with tacky lights and decor outside. Come on, people!!! There is a tasteful way to go about this and make your home look beautiful!!

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? What I have right now is not my favorite (red and gold), but since I spent so freaking much on my tree when this was my favorite, it is going to stay for a couple more years!! I really want to do a turquoise tree.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? We don't really have a huge tradition for Christmas dinner. Breakfast is more our thing... We do like to have clam chowder on Christmas Eve.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? I would like a live in "do all the shiz that I hate" person. Is there such a thing?? Some one who will do laundry, clean toilets, do dishes, and homework with the kids with out expecting a massive paycheck?? I don't want the basic, I want the super deluxe Model (you know, the one that does baseboards, dusting and windows as well!)!!

...been an awful good girl, Santa Baby! So, hurry down the chimney tonight!!!! (this is what I posted on Tiff's blog. I went back and did a little copy/paste action...)

TAG: Jessie, Michelle, Erin, Kallie, and Ashlii (and anyone else who feels so inclined...)