Christmas Tag

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper, but I use gift bags whenever I am lazy or run out of paper.

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial. One day maybe I'll get an artificial tree, but not right now. I'm too cheap and it's too high maintenance for me. It's like pets. I would love one, but with the monkeys I already have to take care of, I don't know if I can keep anything else alive and well - including a tree!

3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the day after Thanksgiving.

4. Do you like eggnog? Yep, but I do thin it down with milk.

5. Favorite gift received as a child? A scooter. Not like the Razors they have today - those scooters that had small bike tires and bike handle bars. I didn't think we would ever get something that cool for Christmas, but we did and I loved it! We rode all through the dirt hills across the street - sometimes in the middle of the night. Ah, the good old days!

6. Hardest person to buy for? Well, we've simplified Christmas and don't exchange names with my siblings any more, but I would say Justin, my brother-in-law. He always wants tools or something super manly that I know nothing about.

7. Easiest person to buy for? Dylan. He has never not liked something he received and has always been very predictable. He loves animals and dinosaurs. It doesn't matter how many he has, that's what he plays with all day every day.

8. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes. One that I bought when I was in Costa Rica that's made of clay and is cute and almost cartoonish with big eyes. The other is new this year. My mom bought all my sisters one last year. It's made of glass and painted. Super cute too!

9. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, but it did not happen this year. Sorry everyone! I'm off my game for some reason.

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Encyclopedia. I would appreciate it now, but didn't as a teenager.

11. Favorite Christmas Movie? Probably A Christmas Story, but I love them all!

12. When do you start shopping? End of November-ish, but I was horrible at getting anything done this year.

13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not real Christmas gifts, but stuff that came from white elephant parties I sometimes give away if I can't use it.

14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Anything sweet : )

15. Lights on the tree? Yes. We bought a tree with the lights all built in last year and it has been fabulous. It saves SO much time.

16. Favorite Christmas song? Little Drummer Boy

17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home. We have family close by so it's easy for us.

18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Yes! Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, and Rudolph!

19. Angel on the tree top or a star? Neither. We've looked and looked and never found one that stays up or that we like.

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Both. Christmas Eve parties are what they have in Argentina so we usually have our Christmas party with Marcos' family Christmas Eve and open those gifts and then have our little family open presents Christmas morning and then go to my mom's for another party and presents Christmas afternoon.

21. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Pressure to do everything and buy everything and forgetting service and celebrating our Savior's birth.

22. Favorite ornament theme or color? I don't know. Right now we have a boring, but pretty tree with blues, silvers and grey colors. In the past we've had one formal tree and one for all the ornaments that are from different things. This year, we can't even keep the bulbs on the one tree from being destroyed. I'm glad we went more simple with the trees this year. Preston's killing me with all the destruction he's causing.

23. Favorite thing for Christmas dinner? Probably funeral potatoes, but I love having chocolate milk or eggnog and a pastry for breakfast that day. Nothing like starting off the chaos with massive amounts of sugar!

24. What do you want for Christmas this year? Kids that mind!

25. Who do I tag? Anyone reading!