Another Christmas Tag

our cute humble little Christmas Trees :)

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Gift wrap for sure! With lots of pretties :)

2. Real tree or Artificial? We prefer real, we've done artificial, and this year we've gone totally "green" and bought 2 planted trees!

3. When do you put up the tree? As soon as I can convince T to get the stuff down!

4. When do you take the tree down? If I had my choice NEVER! I love Christmas!

5. Do you like eggnog? The thought of drinking something that actually has eggs in it makes me feel sick- yuck! T loves it and is drinking some right now :)

6. Favorite Christmas gift as a child? I really remember being totally baffled by my mom, we got a TV, but she insisted they didn't by it for us (my sisses and I) and I knew Santa wasn't around :) I was totally puzzled. As a teenager, my Letterman's jacket was pretty exciting! T says a stereo that played records, cassettes, AND had a radio!

7. Do you have a nativity scene? At home in a box :( So sad about this one, but I just can't break down and buy another.

8. Hardest person to buy for? Usually T's mom or T himself

9. Easiest person to buy for? Depends, I usually like to give thoughtful gifts so no one is really easy.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail unless I'm a slacker- ps T actually helped this year- make them and everything! But shhh don't tell him I told or it might ruin his man ego :)

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I usually like everything I get so nothing! T says "dollar store junk- probably"

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? DUH!! I love them all! A Christmas Story, the Claymation classics, Elf, Mr. Kruegers Christmas are tops :)

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? If I'm good I shop all year for those bargains, the mad dash to finish homemade gift usually begins in October and ends Christmas eve usually REALLY REALLY late! (can't help it I get too many good ideas!) T usually Christmas eve! :)

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? yes

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Big Christmas Eve dinner at T's parents and a snack all day Christmas day at my parents! I love rolls, ham, and SWEETS!!!! (and may I add it really sucks to have to make everything ourselves this year!

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree ? Clear

17. Favorite Christmas song? Silent Night

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? I wish I was traveling, but will embrace our Christmas at home. ;)

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitsen and Rudolph. (honestly not really, I just copied!)

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Both usually PJ's on Christmas eve and the rest Christmas morning, but last year was different with kiddos- we did T's family Christmas eve and my family Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Usually T being a bah humbug, but he's way more into Christmas this year, reading Christmas stories together... you'd better sit down for this part- shopping together and decorating together!! WOW!!!!

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I love all the glass one's at my mom's and T's mom's Snowman tree, but at home we really like using a wide variety of ornaments. This year T found these sparkly chipboard embellishments at Michael's and we used those- score for me I get to use them for scrapbooking when Christmas is over! (I'm really putting a dent in his man ego!)

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? I totally answered this already!

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? There's a bunch of things I would be happy with, but really being home would be on the top of the list, but realistically on the pocketbook, I'll be happy with a week full of adventures! (and maybe a trip into the country- I'm SO not made for living in a big city!)

the truth hurts

**DISCLAIMER** I am in the middle of a 3 month dejunking process and getting ready for a garage sale and I totally could have waited 2 weeks and shown you my beautiful clean home, but I'm going to be a good girl and doing this fun tag now (cause I'm a procrastinator and hardly ever get around to doing tags) and maybe again in a couple weeks when the chaos is all done and gone I'll do it again! I guess they'll be just like before and after pics, but I'm totally embarrassed to actually post these which is why I haven't posted anything like them yet! So here goes the super fun tag from alisa...

The rules are you have to take ten pictures of the following things. And you have to do it right away. No straightening, cleaning or wiping your child's nose. Then you tag five others

1. The Kitchen sink- it's looked better and honestly worse... nuf said

2. The toilet- I love my husband, I love my husband, I love my husband... ha ha

3. The laundry room- one of the rooms I haven't "dejunked" yet

4. Inside the fridge- it's a good thing i just went shopping cause now you can't see the dirty shelves!

5. What is are your kids/spouse doing right now- ty's workin' hard for the money and Micah and Hallie are sleeping thank goodness! So this is all you get cause I ain't takin' the risk of waking them up with the flash!
6. Favorite shoes- does this count, it's so hard to pick just one! boots- cause i can hike in them, my fav dress shoes, nikes cause i love to run in them, crocs cause they're the coolest (unless your my sisters and you think they are the ugliest thing ever!), my fav cute shoes, and my brown flip flops standing in for my NF black flip flops cause i think they're lost in a suitcase! :(7. Favorite room- Well right now i really like the babies room cause I'm decorating it finally, but i really like what happens in the dungeon, i mean the den- it just looks like a dungeon right now with all the junk!

8. Your closet!- I got rid of 4 bags of clothes today! aren't you proud of me?! but I still haven't organized it. like my location for food storage??? any tips on better places to store all this would be greatly appreciated, unfortunately our garage isn't insulated so it can't go out there :(
9. Dream vacation- a trip around the world! does that about sum it up? Actually there's so many places and things I want to see, but if I could go with my family, shop, sleep, eat, explore, swim, hike, and be outside that would be about perfect.

10. Self-portrait- eating while checking up on blogs, my favorite activity :)

I tag... Kristen, mandy, lis, meagan, and a do-it-later-if-you-want-to-tag for tania since you do have tiny twins! (i have a feeling you all will be a source of inspiration for me now let's see em!)

ps... the house already looks way better, we tag teamed it this morning and WOW it's amazing what you can get done with 2 people!