After managing to finally clear the driveway, we headed out to my parent's to spend with family and of course, eat fabulous food. Thank you to my wonderful neighbor, Jana, her Cafe Rio ranch dip was a hit. (FYI-my food is never a hit. I am always delegated the premade items like butter, soda, Costco Pie, ice cream, etc... because I am a lousy cook!) In fact, I am awaiting the recipe to forward to my family to forever keep in our Ford Family Cookbook.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Christmas Day 2008
Christmas Morning 2008-Little did we know that it snowed all night long and all Christmas morning. We got 18" of the white stuff and it just kept coming. It took Darrin and I over an hour just to shovel out our driveway and sidewalks-good exercise! Needless to say, we definitely had a white Christmas.
The children were so busy enjoying their toys, that eating breakfast would only interfere with their playing time. So instead, Darrin and I sat down to fresh fruit, fruit dip, and toasted egg sandwhiches-yum!! It couldn't have been a more perfect Christmas morning. Well, let me revise, I could have lived with less snow.

Morning shot, definitely not glamour shot material.
You can't see it, but we have yard lights throughout our yard. They are obiviously hidden in all that snow. The "snow drifts" on the sides of our driveway are over 4' tall-no joke.

After managing to finally clear the driveway, we headed out to my parent's to spend with family and of course, eat fabulous food. Thank you to my wonderful neighbor, Jana, her Cafe Rio ranch dip was a hit. (FYI-my food is never a hit. I am always delegated the premade items like butter, soda, Costco Pie, ice cream, etc... because I am a lousy cook!) In fact, I am awaiting the recipe to forward to my family to forever keep in our Ford Family Cookbook.
After managing to finally clear the driveway, we headed out to my parent's to spend with family and of course, eat fabulous food. Thank you to my wonderful neighbor, Jana, her Cafe Rio ranch dip was a hit. (FYI-my food is never a hit. I am always delegated the premade items like butter, soda, Costco Pie, ice cream, etc... because I am a lousy cook!) In fact, I am awaiting the recipe to forward to my family to forever keep in our Ford Family Cookbook.
Christmas Eve Night
Christmas Eve at the Allred's 2008-When I was a little girl, my mom would sew all 7 of us (5 children and 2 adults) new pajama's for Christmas. As we grew older, she sewed less and bought the "Old Navy" version. I have continued with that tradition in the Allred home, with the exception, that I have never attempted the sewing part. Instead, the notorious Santa's Helper (me) has chosen the retail route instead and so starts searching for the perfect PJs weeks (sometimes months, like this year) to find all matching pajama's. Well Santa's Helper didn't have much luck, as hard as she tried; however, each person was more than thrilled with what they got! (OK, it took a little coaxing for Megan to put on her candy cane PJs, as she really wanted to wear her princess nightgown. And Santa's Helper had to branch out to GAP and Target, oh well.)
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve 2008-Afer shoveling, shoveling, and more shoveling, we managed to take the adventurous drive south to Eagle Mountain to spend Christmas Eve with the Ford Family. We enjoyed fabulous food (what would Ford family even be without fabulous food?), talked, and then had a special gathering. We were divided into 4 groups, where we had to rewrite famous Christmas songs. We were given "Frosty the Snowman" and changed it into "Barry the Roadkill" (Barry was our famous roadkill back to the Los Gatos days...) Afterwards, my dad related a story of Rush Limbaugh's childhood of Christmas (I want to get the actual story on paper...) and then my mom passed out ornaments, each with her grandchildren's name on it, and a candy cane. (Ok, for those who have common names, otherwise, you got "Precious Child" something like that. Fortunately, this was one reason why Jack and Megan are Jack and Megan-to get things with their names on it. Never had that growing up.)
Monday, December 01, 2008
My Christmas List
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping Paper
2. Real tree or Artificial? Real
3. When do you put up the tree? The Day after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the Tree down? The Day after Christmas
5. Do you like eggnog? Yes!! 6. Favorite gift received as a child? My tea set.
7. Hardest person to buy for? Darrin or my dad 8. Easiest person to buy for? the kids 9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes
10. email or Christmas cards? Both
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A fleece Christmas vest with bears, deers, trees all over it
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Miracle on 34th Street
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? In the Fall
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not that I can remember
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? everything 16. Lights on the tree? Yes and lots of them 17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night 18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay Home for sure.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolf (Thanks Jana)
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? An Angel
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? we usually open on present (which is PJs) and then the rest in the morning 22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The crowds 23. Favorite ornament theme or color? red, silver and gold 24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Prime Rib
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Well now it's a new computer and Santa already bought it-Merry Christmas!
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