Christmas TAG!!!

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends.
Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!!
Just copy this entire post and paste into a new post on your blog once you are TAGGED. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then TAG 2 people to do the same that have not already been TAGGED!


1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Mostly wrapping paper and a few gift bags.
2. REAL OR FAKE TREE? I have a fake one, but prefer a real one. I haven't had a real one in a few years since it toppled over!
3. When do you put up the tree? It's UP!! Either right before or right after Thanksgiving!
4. When do you take the tree down? Usually no later than 2nd week of january.
5. Do you like eggnog? Nope
6. Favorite gift received as a child? There are several gifts I remember... but the one I remember most was the Farrah Fawcette doll head that you could style the hair and apply makeup to!
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope.. need one.
8. Hardest person to buy for? My dad, hands down!
9. Easiest person to buy for? Me? Ha Ha... actually my sister, cause I know I can always get her a Kohl's gift card. (if you're reading this Leigh, you ain't getting one this year!!! LOL)
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I have no clue...
11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Definitely mail them... and for the past few years MAKE them as well!
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The Grinch... Cartoon and the non animated one!
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Sometimes as early as the day after Christmas! But mostly in December!
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not that I can remember!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?Anything good! I am not picky! Oh and Leigh's Peanut butter fudge!!!
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? I have blue lights on my tree to go with the snowmen!
17. Favorite Christmas song? I love all Christmas music and have been playing the all Christmas music channel for over a week now!
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Christmas Day usually home... this year we are heading to SC on Christmas day.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Umm... SNOWMAN!!! LOL But he is a star shape I think...
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Morning... but this year it will be Christmas Eve Morning!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?Crowds... I hate crowded places!
23. What I love most about Christmas? Everything. Definitely EVERYTHING>.. the music, the decorations, the way I feel... it is all so special. But the most important thing, and the most special to me is the celebration of Jesus' Birth! What a glorious day!

OK, now for my tags... I am tagging CARLA and CATHY! You know who you are!! Get to it, and don't forget to TAG 2 other special folks!!!

Fall

Fall is my favorite season of all! I love the change from Hot to cooler temps. I love it when the kids go back to school... for me that is the signal to bring on fall. I was so afraid this year that we would not have many beautiful leaves because of the serious drought conditions we are in, but I was wrong. I think the leaves are the most gorgeous I have seen them! I snapped a few photos to preserve this memory... The change of the leaves, the change in my life now... it is all wonderful!!! I am so thankful to be able to look out my windows and see this gorgeous site every day. To me this beautiful display of color is every bit if not more gorgeous than the newness of Spring!

Productive Day!!!

yesterday was an awesome day for me!!! I was able to scrap my heart out!! I completed 13 pages. All of which were challenges for the Weekend Crop we had at Scraphappy. Here are a few of my faves!!! The rest are uploaded at ScrapFreak Come on over and check us out!!!

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Kitties don't like baths??? Apparently mine do... or so I thought, but they jumped out before I could get them through the rinse cycle!!! LOL Gotta love them Twins!!

Quite a Day...

Well well well... for those of you that know me well, you know my biggest "home away from home" for awhile has been on Scraplovers.com. Today that all came crashing to an end. I will no longer associate myself with a place that is so full of itself it does not recognize the truth if it hit them in the face. For weeks now, I have been very unhappy there. Things just weren't "right." I didn't have much of a clue as to what wasn't right, then I decided to test it... I backed off, I stayed away for days on end. Noone mentioned it... noone asked where I had been, noone cared I wasn't doing my job. At the point someone finally asked... I came back around and shot off a PM to Mackey Stanley and Christina the owner. I let them know how unhappy I had been and clued them in on just a few things I could pinpoint... Mackey then responded to me... albeit kindly to me, I did not realize she was just trying to sweet talk me to keep me around... and to sweeten the deal, she included how she REALLY felt about the Design Team on Scraplovers. It was not pretty... but being as naive as I was at the time, I clung to her thoughts and agreed... boy was that a HUGE mistake on my part. Today things came crashing down at Scraplovers when some of the DT announced they were leaving. Me in my "dumbness" thought that they were leaving because they had had their hands smacked... well, I learned a whole new lesson on that score. What shocked me the most was to learn the TRUE character of someone I had befriended and thought of as a close friend. MAckey showed her true colors in bashing the DT members who left, but trying to glorify the ones remaining... little did they know how Mackey TRUELY felt! Once I had seen the true nature of this beast, I quickly began to defend these people who I had wrongly associated with being the problem. I laid all my cards on the table and posted what Mackey had said about them... no I probably shouldn't have aired the dirty laundry like that, but I felt they had a right to know she was lying to their faces. After this happened I was BANNED from Scraplovers... apparently on that site if your views do not mesh with one Mackey Stanley or Christina you are not welcome... others have left because of her. Others will leave because of her. What will Christina be left with? And empty site. Sad too, cause I did ALL my shopping there... so who wants my business now? I refuse to do business with folks who operate the way they have been operating. I will not go into more detail here for the world to see, but if you ask me privately I will tell you.... ALL comments welcome...

No Ghosts or Goblins!

We had a great time this Halloween at the Fall Festival at Church! Lots of games, prizes, fellowship, a pie eating contest, hayrides, and of course the all time favorite... Trunk or Treat. this was the first year I did not hand out candy... just wasn't in the cards for this month, but I don't think anyone missed it! The kids came home with plenty!

After much searching for the right items for Katie's costume... she wanted to be Waldo... she settled on being a Princess when she just couldn't find what she wanted! And a gorgeous princess she was....




Timothy on the other hand decided he was too old to dress up for Halloween, and just wasn't gonna do it... until he changed his mind the day before Halloween!!! But, he decided he wanted to be an old man, so the costume was easy! A trip to the Thrift Store, (and Poppy's closet for suspenders and a cane...) and voila... here's my old man!!!