A Christmas Survey......

My dear friend and Sugar pie sister Christy over at Petals and Pines tagged me in this Christmas Meme and if you would like to join in just jump right in....and while you are at it hop on over to Christy's blog and say hello....


About the TREE....
1.When do you put up the Christmas tree? In our house we always put the tree up the night of Thanksgiving..
2. Real or fake? We have a fake pre-lit tree that we add red lights too.
3. Lights? What color?clear and red .
4. Garland? yes we use red and green.
5. Theme or no theme? We don't have a particular theme this year.
6. What kind of topper? A red and gold angel
7. What's your favorite ornament? The red Cardinal birds, that is North Carolina state bird : )
8. What does your tree skirt look like? A red velvet one
9. Where do you put your tree? In the corner near the door so it can be seen when someone walks in the house..
10. Who decorates the tree? . The whole family.
11.What's "under" the tree? Nothing yet, I have not wrapped anything as of yet, just been lazy I guess...
12. Do you put candy canes on your tree? Not this year, but years before

About the FOODS....
1. What's your favorite Christmas cookie? Gingerbread
2. Do you bake cookies and give them away? Every year, but this year we are doing something different we are doing the cookies in the jar gifts, it's were we put everything in a mason jar that lets a person bake the cookies when they are ready straight from the jar...
3. Any "special" foods or candy that you only have at Christmas time? My hubby's famous CHEESE BALLS...
4. What do you eat Christmas EVE? Not much, we do sub sandwiches and finger foods, we don't want to get to full and have a belly ache before the Christmas feast the next day.
5. What do you eat on Christmas day? Breakfast: French toast coffee and orange juice...usually lunch we eat on appetizers, like cheese balls and dips and then dinner it's the works, turkey , ham, dressing, and every dessert that we can think of.
6. Do you like Eggnog?? I love eggnog, and especially the eggnog coffee cream flavor that is out now..
7. Do you like candy canes? I love peppermint all year anyway,
1. Where do you hang your stockings? I have not put them up yet, but we hang them near the tree
2. Do you put lights on your house? We do chaser lights
3. Got any outside lawn decorations? We will be putting up a snowman globe along with the two reindeer as soon as my hubby has another day off.....We did the front porch already.
4. Do you put up a nativity (crèche)? Not outside but in the house there are two.
5. Do you hang mistletoe over the door? No , to be honest never through about it.
6. Got a wreath on your front door? No I have a Happy Holidays door cover
7. How long does it take you to decorate? Put it this way I am still putting up decorates on Christmas Eve lol
About the movies/show
1 . Favorite Children's Xmas TV show/cartoon? Charlie brown Christmas, and Holiday in Handcuffs...lol
2. Wonderful Life/Miracle on 34th St/A ChristmasCarol (Scrooge)..Hands down a Christmas Carol
Favorite Christmas movie?? It's a Wonderful Life, we watch it as a family ever single year.
4. Have you ever seen the Nutcracker Suite Ballet live? Yes, here in my state capital Raleigh it was here about three years ago and the women and the little girls of our family went we really enjoyed it.
5. Ever been to the Radio City Music Hall Christmasshow?? No.
6. Ever gone to the movies on Xmas Day? No

Other Christmas things....
1. Favorite Christmas book or story? The story of Jesus birth, and The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2. Do you stuff your stockings with any types of food? For the fur kids? We do little toys and apples and oranges
3. Do you go to church on Christmas or Christmas Eve? We go on Christmas eve and that is when the youth of our church do there Christmas program.
4. Have you ever gone Caroling? When I was little with my church group
5. Favorite Christmas Carol? "Let it snow, Let it snow by Doris Day
6. Do you believe in Santa? Yes
7. Do you leave Santa cookies? Yes I do, but my hubby tells the children that Santa is a diabetic (my hubby is a type 1 diabetic) so he tells them instead of cookies Santa whats cheese balls lol. I know we should not tell them this but we are just been real
8. What about Rudolph...we leave out reindeer food which is just a brown lunch bag which we put in oatmeal and silver glitter and then sparkle it on the lawn for the reindeer.
9. What was your best Christmas gift? My lap top lol
10. What was the worst/most odd gift? Must we go there hehehe.
11. Do you go to a "work" Christmas party? We go to Cedric's every year and his company goes all out.
12. Do you hate going? I love going
13. Do you send Christmas cards? I send a lot every year
14. Do you make a "list"? Yes
15. Do you check it twice? & thrice & etc...Yes,
16.When do you start shopping? In the summer time lol
17.Do you shop on Black Friday? Yes, I love all of the great deals
20. ARE YOU READY FOR CHRISTMAS? I LOVE CHRISTMAS and I am always excited and ready I am like a big kid..

TAG! You're it.
I Tag:

1. SunnySide (Amy) @http://keepnthesunnyside.blogspot.com/
2.Farmhouse County@http://farmhousecountrystyle.blogspot.com/
3.Lauren@http://southernsassafrasblog.blogspot.com/
and to the rest of the sugar pie farmhouse gals...