1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Definitely Hot Chocolate. Although on rare occasion I don't mind a swig of Egg Nog.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrapped. Everything was wrapped. Our stocking gifts were wrapped. After we opened everything we had a huge mound of wrappings that our cats used to love playing in.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored. We have white on decorations but outside and on tree definitely colored. More christmasey:)
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No. Humm...where do you get some of that?
5. When do you put up your decorations? The weekend after Thanksgiving.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Well I love ham and potatoes, and homemade anything. I love food!
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? As a family on Christmas eve we would drive to the Layton park and see the lights. While we were driving we would try and find Rudolph's nose. Of course any red blinking light we swore was Rudolph.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Oh sad I still remember this. I wanted to know for sure and my parents told me. I was really sad.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes. We would open one gift from our siblings. That was fun. I still remember one Christmas we gave my little sister Jamie some type of art thing that was supposed to raise when you paint it. Sounds cool right?? but Jamie being 5 or so had the saddest little face. We tried to hype it up but to no avail. I still feel bad...we should have gone with a doll.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We get a real tree every year. My mom loves the smell and I do too. So this year I convinced Daron of the importance of a real tree. I think I've converted him. We decorate with colored lights, thin tinsel, and any ornaments we have. We hide the not so pretty ones in the back.
11. Can you ice skate? Yes. But I get bored. Something about going around in circles doesn't thrill me. Ba humbug!
12. Do you remember your favorite gift? When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up I would answer ...a cashier. I thought they were the coolest. One year I received a toy cashier box with fake food and a scanner and everything. I took out food from our cupboards and started scanning. I loved it.
13. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being surrounded by the people I love. I love attending many holiday festivities with my wonderful husband. We had a blast this year. And Of course the celebration of Jesus Christ. I enjoy singing in the church choir for our Christmas performance.
14. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? So now it's a dessert huh. Well I love my mom's homemade peanut butter cups. Also Daron received some chocolate, Carmel pretzels...so good!
15. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Growing up my sisters and I would wake up at 5:30 or so and go see our presents out by the tree. We would giggle and whisper. Then we go wake my parents up at 6:00 just to find my dad all ready with a camera waiting for us to jump on their bed. Good times!
16. What tops your tree? Well we didn't have anything this year so we had a bit star ornament that we stuck towards the top of the tree. It looks good.
17. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? I'll admit I really like both. Although this year it's been so fun and fulfilling to be the giver.
18. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Carpenters, chipmunks, Faith Hill, Martina McBride. I like all those holiday albums...oh and of course Bing Crosby...I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
19. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? yes, but there is a lot of good too
I tag anyone who would like to do this. It's my first tag and it was kinda fun:)
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
3 Years...already?!!
It's true Daron and I celebrated our 3rd year anniversary last Wednesday. That day was much like our wedding day three years ago. Cold, a little snowy, and...cold. I tried to find some of our wedding pictures to show how truly cold it was, but I can't seem to find them. Uh oh...that will be my project for next week:) I truly am blessed to have a wonderful husband. We have so much fun together and he keeps me smiling. Here's to another 70 years...or more:)
Monday, December 15, 2008
Upside Down Frown
Frown-
Last Saturday we were sad. Our annual BFF Christmas party in Logan was going on without us because of a ginormous snowstorm that left at least a foot of snow on our front yard between Saturday morning and Sunday night, and is continuing today.
Enter friend with tickets
Upside Down Frown-
Yay! We had a friend call and offer us two tickets to the Jon Schmidt Christmas Concert at Kingsbury Hall. So instead of driving to Logan in a snowstorm, or staying home sad, we were able to see Jon Schmidt, who was as amazing as ever.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Wilsons for their generosity :)
Last Saturday we were sad. Our annual BFF Christmas party in Logan was going on without us because of a ginormous snowstorm that left at least a foot of snow on our front yard between Saturday morning and Sunday night, and is continuing today.
Enter friend with tickets
Upside Down Frown-
Yay! We had a friend call and offer us two tickets to the Jon Schmidt Christmas Concert at Kingsbury Hall. So instead of driving to Logan in a snowstorm, or staying home sad, we were able to see Jon Schmidt, who was as amazing as ever.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Wilsons for their generosity :)
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Dates and Nuts
For the past two Fridays, my wonderful wife has taken me on two fantastic dates.
Date #1
This one was a secret, which was a lot of fun because we got to explore Salt Lake City on foot, which is something we haven't done before. Come to find out it was all just to take up some time because we had a couple hours to kill before...The JAZZ game! Yes everyone, my wife got some tickets from a fellow teacher, and took me to the Jazz game. I haven't been to a game in a long time, and it's been even longer since I've been to a game and not sat in the nosebleed section.
Oh, but before the game we were looking for a place to eat. We are not what you would call "connoisseurs of cuisine", so we were just looking for someplace new that looked good. We must've been on the wrong side of town though because every menu we looked at was at least $25/person, unless you wanted to be cheap and pay $15/person for a hamburger. No Thank You! So we found our way back to The Gateway and took whoever had the shortest wait possible, which was Applebee's, and we enjoyed our meal, then the Jazz game!
And the nuts...
We rode trax for the first time that night, and it appeared that some Jazz fans don't hold their booze (not to be confused with Boozer, the guy who sits out because of a sore earlobe) very well. Let's just say it was a very interesting experience, and we'll leave it at that.
Date#2
Yesterday, once again, my wife took me on a date. And once again, she got tickets from a fellow teacher. And once again...ok, we didn't go to a Jazz game this time, but our date was more fitting for the season. We went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Christmas concert. It's amazing how they turn the Conference Center into a performance hall, full of fancy decorations, a stage for dancers, and they even had our own Davis High bell choir (along with some other bell choirs). The decorations were beautiful and the music was incredible! The Choir sang with Brian Stokes Mitchell, whom we've seen twice now this year (last time was at A Capitol 4th concert in Washington DC), and they had Edward Herrmann share Longfellow's Christmas (the story behind "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day") and the Christmas story from Luke 2. I recommend that if any of you have a chance to see Motab's Christmas concert that you take the opportunity. It's worth it!
Date #1
This one was a secret, which was a lot of fun because we got to explore Salt Lake City on foot, which is something we haven't done before. Come to find out it was all just to take up some time because we had a couple hours to kill before...The JAZZ game! Yes everyone, my wife got some tickets from a fellow teacher, and took me to the Jazz game. I haven't been to a game in a long time, and it's been even longer since I've been to a game and not sat in the nosebleed section.
Oh, but before the game we were looking for a place to eat. We are not what you would call "connoisseurs of cuisine", so we were just looking for someplace new that looked good. We must've been on the wrong side of town though because every menu we looked at was at least $25/person, unless you wanted to be cheap and pay $15/person for a hamburger. No Thank You! So we found our way back to The Gateway and took whoever had the shortest wait possible, which was Applebee's, and we enjoyed our meal, then the Jazz game!
And the nuts...
We rode trax for the first time that night, and it appeared that some Jazz fans don't hold their booze (not to be confused with Boozer, the guy who sits out because of a sore earlobe) very well. Let's just say it was a very interesting experience, and we'll leave it at that.
Date#2
Yesterday, once again, my wife took me on a date. And once again, she got tickets from a fellow teacher. And once again...ok, we didn't go to a Jazz game this time, but our date was more fitting for the season. We went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Christmas concert. It's amazing how they turn the Conference Center into a performance hall, full of fancy decorations, a stage for dancers, and they even had our own Davis High bell choir (along with some other bell choirs). The decorations were beautiful and the music was incredible! The Choir sang with Brian Stokes Mitchell, whom we've seen twice now this year (last time was at A Capitol 4th concert in Washington DC), and they had Edward Herrmann share Longfellow's Christmas (the story behind "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day") and the Christmas story from Luke 2. I recommend that if any of you have a chance to see Motab's Christmas concert that you take the opportunity. It's worth it!
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