Christmas 2011 Recap part 1

So Christmas has came and gone already. Of course I have not made a single blog post since. So I figured I should start recapping my Christmas.

I figured I would start with my Christmas decorations (which are already put away :-(.)

Our bathroom

Our Bedroom

Our Living Room

 The Kitchen/Dining room

Our Christmas Tree

 Our new Christmas 2011 Ornaments

We also got a couple new 2011 ornaments from my mom for Christmas. 

Those will be in the new recap post.

 The next recap post will be of the Gingerbread house I made, what we did Christmas Eve, and what we did Christmas day.

Christmas Card

So I did not make a Christmas card in enough time to order and mail out this year. I did buy blank Christmas cards and wrote in them from my family. Then I handed them out to my dad's side of the family at our Christmas party on December 11th. We took some cute pictures that day, so today I decided to play on Photoshop. I played around and made our own photo Christmas card. We don't have big enough photo paper so I can not print them out to give to my family on Christmas :-(.

So here is our Christmas card for this year:

I really like it and of course my boyfriend helped by giving me some points since He knows more about Photoshop then I do.

I may email it to people and post it on Facebook since I don't have big enough photo paper to print it.

Merry Christmas 

Christmas Quiz

I saw the idea for the Christmas Quiz on Meagan's Blog and thought it would be a fun thing to do on my blog.

1. Eggnog or hot chocolate?
Hot Chocolate with whipped cream. I've never had Eggnog.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? 
Santa always wrapped the presents.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
We would go cut down our tree every year as a kid. So my mom would switch between colored and white every year. I like both but white is my favorite. This year I bought a fake pre-lit tree with my boyfriend. I wanted white but the tree in white that I like was sold out. So we bought a tree we liked with colored lights. 

We don't have lights on our house.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Some time after Thanksgiving.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish?
My mom's homemade candy and ham and mashed potatoes.

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
Probably going to my grandma's cabin in the mountains every year when I was little. Or getting that one toy I always wanted.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Oh I still believe of course :-)

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
We would get to open one gift on Christmas Eve when I was little. Usually Christmas pjs to wear.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? 
first lights (unless it is pre-lighted), then ornaments.

11. Snow! Love it or dread it?
Love it, but sadly it hardly ever snows here. I have to go to the mountains to see snow.

12. Can you ice skate?
I've only ice skated once in my life. But I only fell twice so I think I did pretty good.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
When I was a kid probably some Barbie toy. More recently probably my camera.

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Being with family. Celebrating the birth of Jesus. As a kid looking for Santa.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
My mom's homemade candy and cookies: Bon Bons, almond roca, candy walnuts, gingerbread cookies, sugar cookies. 

My grandma's green Christmas tree cookies (which she did not make this year very upsetting lol.)

Pumpkin pie.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Holiday parities with family and friends. 
Reading Twas' The Night Before Christmas every Christmas Eve. Listening to Christmas music as I fall asleep on Christmas Eve. Baking with my mom and decorating the house with my family (and now my boyfriend.)

Driving around town with my family and looking at Christmas lights (we call them pretty pretty pretty.)

Many many more.

17. What tops your tree?
As a kid we had a glass teddy bear in pjs until it broke (I believe.), Then we got a star, and then one year my mom used her grandpa's old vintage glass tree topper.

And this year we are usually my boyfriend's grandma's family old vintage glass tree topper. It is a lot like the old one my mom has.

18. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving?
Really I love both.

19. Candy canes: yuck or yum?
Yum, but I never finish them.

20. Favorite Christmas show?
Home Alone 1 and 2, Santa Claus (with Tim Allen), How The Grinch Stole Christmas (both the original cartoon and the live version.), and all of the old classic ones like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Santa Claus is coming to Town, etc.

21. Saddest Christmas song? 

Do They Know It's Christmas?

22. What’s your favorite Christmas song?
Silver Bells, Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer, and many more.

I love the She and Him Christmas album. 

Next up I am going to post pictures of my Christmas Decorations.