Tag! I'm It!

Hi friendly reader!  Last Week Tabitha from over at Wandering Java Lover tagged me in a Christmas Questionnaire and since I didn't want to miss out on the fun (and because the questions were almost ALL different from last week's post) I just had to participate! 

1) What do you love most about Christmas time?  I love all of the gatherings, which probably sounds crazy if you know me personally.  During the week of Christmas Aaron and I typically visit 5 homes within seventy-two hours, 3 of which are all on the same day.  It’s madness but every celebration is so much fun we wouldn’t want to miss any of them!

2) Do you celebrate the holiday in style or is it Bah-Humbug for you?  We celebrate in style.  Decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving and come down around New Year’s Day.

Are you leaving anything out for Santa this year so he remembers to leave your presents?  Probably not.  Odds are Marley would try to eat whatever we left out and then we’d spend Christmas at the emergency vet.  Hopefully Santa understands!

3) What is the one gift you are most looking forward to giving?  Probably the gift we got for our youngest niece.  She’s getting to the age where she understands more of what is going on and she tends to get very excited about things which is really fun to watch.

4) What is your all-time favourite Christmas movie? I really can’t pick one but my top five are : Christmas Vacation, A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch, Elf and Miracle on 34^th Street

5) What is your all-time favourite Christmas song? It Came Upon A Midnight Clear by Josh Groban

6) If given the opportunity, would you participate in an "Ugly Sweater" party and what sweater would you wear?   We usually go to at least one ugly sweater party a year but sadly we missed ours this year because we were buying Aaron a new truck (more on that another day).  If I went, and had to buy a sweater to wear,  I think I’d sport this one:

{Via}

7) Have you started any Christmas traditions this year that you plan on carrying forward?I  We haven’t started any traditions this year but we’ve carried a few on.  When I started dating Aaron I learned about his Christmas Tree tradition.  Every year his family would go to the lot and Aaron would just pick a tree.  You don’t unwrap it from the netting, you just pick it and get what you get.  Giant hole in the back and all.  Well, we’ve carried that tradition into our home for the last four years and this Christmas was no different.  Amazingly enough we’ve never ended up with a really terrible tree!  We also make it a point to give our niece (now nieces) and nephew at least one book with their gifts. I'm always so worried that in this technological world paper books will go extinct, especially for their generation, so it's our little attempt at keeping them alive.

8) It's Christmas morning...what does it look like outside where you live?  It will most likely be sunny and 75*.  Ugh, so annoying.  I’m probably only one of a few Southern Californian’s who say this but come on people, it’s Christmas!  It should be at least cold enough to wear appropriate winter attire.  Really.

9) You just found yourself under the mistletoe...who comes up to give you a kiss first? Probably our oldest lab, Maya.  She has this compulsive liking that I don’t think we’ll ever be able to train her to stop doing.  She needs water, she licks you.  Needs to go outside, she licks you.  It’s a half hour until dinner time….well you get the idea.  So, odds are she’d be right there trying to lick my hand for something.

And on a final note, remember last week when I said I was waiting for our Christmas cards to arrive from the printer so I could send them out?  Well......they finally sent them to me.  Only they did not send the seventy-five I ordered. They sent 2! 2?!  Who orders 2 Christmas cards?!!!  So, since I have to order new cards from somewhere else in order to get them in the mail in time for Christmas, I figured I'd share with you what our original cards would have looked like:

Word to the wise,  avoid ordering custom products from a company whose name rhymes with Frazzle. 

Happy Tuesday!