Holiday Tag

HOLIDAY TAG!
Hey....lets play. Just copy and paste into your own blog and answer the questions.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both
2. Real tree or Artificial? We go and chop it down the Griswald Family Christmas way, except we bring our saw.
3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the day after Thanksgiving, but this year we did it the weekend before Thanksgiving. I hope our tree survives to Christmas (crossing fingers)
4. When do you take the tree down? If I have any say-so, then the day after Christmas or the day after New Year's
5. Do you like eggnog? Love It!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Playstation GameGear (first color hand-held game)
7. Hardest person to buy for? People who won't give me any ideas!
8. Easiest person to buy for? My kids
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, on a the tallest shelf of my bookcase
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, if I'm lucky
11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I'm not at liberty to say
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Christmas Vacation (hence the comment in #2)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Soon after Halloween
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Absolutely!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolate!
16. Favorite Christmas song? I want a Hippoppotomus for Christmas. (I'm embarrased if I spelled that wrong :0)
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home with my Mom, Brother and his G-friend. It's at the top of my favorite list.
18. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? We open jammies on Christmas Eve, but the bulk of the gift giving is on Christmas.
20. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? My bank account draining quickly to $0
21. Favorite ornament theme or color? We collect an ornament every year so it's a tree full of memories
22. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Whatever
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? A new cell phone and a wheat grinder
24. Do you go "Black Friday Shopping"? Yes, and I can't figure out why I keep doing it since I'm mad every year when I go and all the deals are gone.
25.What is your favorite Christmas cookie? All of them!!

Christmas Tree Chopping Day

As tradition goes for the Bevan's, we pile in the car and travel to Bevan Cabin in Toole to hunt for that perfect Christmas Tree. Here we have spotted it. Let's hope it still looks good when we chop it down!

The big strong men take turns sawing at the tree while the women stand back and watch while we complain about the chill and how our hands are cold.

Are you ready for Christmas?

Erica, are you ready for Christmas?

No Mommy, how can we possibly start celebrating Christmas so close after Thanksgiving? I just got done digesting all that dinner. I'm too tired to sing Christmas carols, make Christmas cookies, watch endless Christmas movies, and unwrap all those presents that Santa brings me on Christmas morning. Plus, I don't want to take off my awesome Pilgrim hat!

I'm sorry Erica, Thanksgiving is over. It's time to take off your pilgrim hat and put on your Santa hat.
No! I won't do it!
Celebrating the Holidays is hard work!

Halloween with the Cousins

One Halloween tradition we celebrate is getting together for some yummy food and games with our cousins. Of course it is mandatory that everyone dress up (even the grown-ups). All came together and showed off their unbelieveably awesome costumes. I swear they get better and better every year! Even we put in a little more thought this year as to what we would be for Halloween. It was especially a lot of fun putting Kyle's costume together. After all the dressing up, he now wishes to be addressed as K-Bev. What goes better together than a Gangster with an Aerobicizing wife?

Halloween Fun

As tradition goes, we go get our Punkin, bring it home and start in on painting it up. For the first time in four years, we finally have a painted face on one of our pumpkins! Usually we see a full pumpkin smeared with large amounts of a brown, reddish color from the paints getting all mixed up together. Everyone had their own preferred way of painting their punkins which makes it so much fun to watch.

Erica preferred to tap the painted brush to the pumpkin which made it cute, but we later found lots of paint splattered on our kitchen wall from all that tapping. Oh well, it's all worth it when you see such a happy face as Erica's!

Juice, anyone?

I couldn't resist getting a picture of this little cutie drinking in her big-girl cup today while I was making dinner. Sitting at the counter I could hear loud gulping sounds with a big "HAAHH" then her sprawling her body across the counter with cup in hand saying, "Moe Jshuice, Mama!"

So I got tagged by two of my good friends, Cricket and Leah. You can see thier blog links on the side of my blog to check thier's out. I do consider myself to be extremely ordinary, so I'm sorry I wasted 5 minutes of your internet time when you could be paying bills online or checking your email. :)

Here are the rules:
1. Post a link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag a few blogging friends. Let each person you want to tag know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blog site under the latest posting.
5. Let your tagger know when you have posted the "6 random things about yourself" on your blog.

6 random things about myself:

1. I have an extreme fettish for the smell of fabric softener and bleach in my clothes and bedsheets. When I fold my clothes, I have to press every other garment to my face and take in a deep breath. Yes, I even do it to underwear, that way I know if they are truly clean, ya know? I will also try to go outside and do some yard work after just putting my clothes in the dryer so I can work and get whiffs of my laundry from the vent blowing outside.

2. When I have unexpected visitors, I have small panic attacks while they are visiting because I start seeing everything in my house that I have neglected to clean and tidy. I don't consider myself the best housekeeper, and it sticks out like a sore thumb when I have visitors. It even happens when I have scheduled visitors, but not as bad because I've had at least some time to tidy up.

3. I love to sing as loud as I can in the car, but not when my husband is driving with me. Don't ask me why, I just can't. Maybe because he does enough loud singing for the both of us, but even when I try, I just can't get it out. I will sing with him in church and anywhere else that requires me to sing, but I cannot sing in the car with Kyle.

4. I love my church calling. My husband and I are Nursery leaders in our ward and I love going every week. What's better than entering a room full of happy smiling faces that are meant for you? When you sit on the floor and they all come swarming over to give you a big hug, and that accidental "Mom" when a child needs help. I love it. I feel that there is nothing much better than recieving love from a child. (Don't tell my husband I said that part about loving my calling)

5. I can make myself cry on demand. I'm usually a cry baby as it is, but if I give myself enough time to think about something to cry about, the tears will start flowing. So if you need anybody to sympathize with you, invite a bawlbaby to make you feel better.

6. I love my Husband's ears. I can't get enough of them. I love to rub them between my thumb and finger. They are warm and squishy, and it gives me tingles just thinking about them. Unfortunately, they are the best when he's tired and his ears are hot, but that's usually at the time when he's grumpy... and I forgot to say that he hates having his ears touched, tired or not. It makes him mad when I touch them. What do I do???

Alright, that was embarrassing, probably more for those that I wrote about, but there it is. Now, tag, you're it!!!