Swurvey Sways...

EMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Favorite Reindeer:BLITZEN!!! (stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff-something something)

2. Favorite Gift from Twelve Days of Christmas: FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOOOOOOOLDEN RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGS!!

3. Colorful or White Lights? YES!

4. Favorite Sweet Holiday Treat: My sweet treat is two weeks off of work!!!!! YYAAAAAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

5. Favorite Christmas Movie: White Christmas

6. Red or Green? Green

7. Favorite Christmas Song: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (that is the one that has been playing over and over and over in my head all day so I can’t even think of any other songsJ and then I think of that back-to-school staples commercial where they play that song as parents are joyfully skipping down the aisles throwing school supplies in the basket and the kids are sad and then I laugh and laugh and then I write the longest run on sentence about it)

8. Favorite Christmas Villain (Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, etc.): The Abominable Snowman is a Christmas villain? The burglars from home alone

9. Snowman or Snow Angel? Sand Angel

10. Favorite Christmassy Beverage: Christmassy….probable some yummy winter latte at coffee bean and tea leaf…but really bailey’s and coffee!

11. Favorite Winter Sports (skiing, sledding, hockey, etc.): Hiking up a snow covered volcano!!!

12. A favorite Christmas memory: Pinjo’s first Christmas, getting my star studio (O.G. karaoke tape deck for all you youngins), singing/laughing/cracking up with sisters at x-mas eve, Katie getting soooooooooooo excited about the holiday, Wibby and Wibby dancing to Joyce’s Lady of Spain,Lucy’s poem last year, DEFINETLY G-Pa and Hal at the piano, the whole tradition of it all, oh and Lucy winking at Bernice!

Binky

1. Favorite Reindeer: Rudolph of course. I like Comet too.
   
2. Favorite Gift from Twelve Days of Christmas: Seven Swans a Swimmin!
   
3. Colorful or White Lights? White lights - Lucy and I put up a million of them outside my mom's house and now they are covered in snow!
   
4. Favorite Sweet Holiday Treat: hot chocolate with little baby marshmallows! or treacle pudding for the british people
   
5. Favorite Christmas Movie: Miracle on 34th Street; Love Actually; Muppets Christmas Carol!!!
   
6. Red or Green? Red!
   
7. Favorite Christmas Song: ALL of them - how can you even choose!? o holy night; chestnuts roasting on an open fire; little drummer boy; the list goes on!
   
8. Favorite Christmas Villain (Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, etc.): Scrooge in the muppets christmas carol!
   
9. Snowman or Snow Angel? snowMAN! I think I witnessed Lucy make her first of both, so I am attached to both!
   
10. Favorite Christmassy Beverage: hot chocolate again!
    
11. Favorite Winter Sports (skiing, sledding, hockey, etc.): SLEDDING, but in the UK we grew up as kids calling it "sledging" which is much more fun.
12. A favorite Christmas memory: getting a pony for christmas!

Courtney

1. Favorite Reindeer: Dancer, because I'm a dancer!!!
2. Favorite Gift from Twelve Days of Christmas: Fivvvveee gooooold ringgggs
3. Colorful or White Lights? white, it makes the ornaments pop out on the tree
4. Favorite Sweet Holiday Treat: ginger bread cookies!!!
5. Favorite Christmas Movie: A Christmas Story because of the fancy leg lamp
6. Red or Green? Red
7. Favorite Christmas Song: Chestnuts roasting on a open fireeee......
   
8. Favorite Christmas Villain (Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, etc.): The Abominable Snowman!!!!
9. Snowman or Snow Angel? I've never built a snowman or a snow angel, but I can imagine the snowman being super fun!
10. Favorite Christmassy Beverage: mulled hot cider
11. Favorite Winter Sports (skiing, sledding, hockey, etc.): definitely skiing
12. A favorite Christmas memory: When all of the kids in the family (including me) get matching pajamas and slippers to wear Christmas eve and we all put them on and go look for Santa and do the traditional Christmas dance!!!

Lucy

1. Favorite Reindeer: Comet - he's always overlooked for his boring cleaning supply name
2. Favorite Gift from Twelve Days of Christmas: 12 drummers drumming! I love drums - and I'm awesome at them
3. Colorful or White Lights? White lights - classic
4. Favorite Sweet Holiday Treat: jerrrr's ballllz!!!!!!!!
5. Favorite Christmas Movie: Love Actually, the weird claymation frosty the snowman one too, miracle on 34th street
6. Red or Green? Red!
7. Favorite Christmas Song: All I want for Christmas is Youuuuuu
   
8. Favorite Christmas Villain (Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, etc.):Grinch! his heart swells to 3times its size!!!
9. Snowman or Snow Angel? Snow man! way more fun to make
10. Favorite Christmassy Beverage: pumpkin egg nog (with rum?)
11. Favorite Winter Sports (skiing, sledding, hockey, etc.):bobsledding! Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time!!!!!!!!!!!
12. A favorite Christmas memory: One of my favorite Christmas memories is the time I asked for an electric race track and I got it and set it up and played with it all day. Also the time we all got ipods. Also every year dancing to lady of Spain. Also winking at Bernice.

Chris

Favorite Reindeer: Comet

Favorite Gift from Twelve Days of Christmas: Ten pipers piping

Colorful or White Lights? Color

Favorite Sweet Holiday Treat: Fudge

Favorite Christmas Movie: Christmas Vacation

Red or Green? Green

Favorite Christmas Song: The Christmas Song

Favorite Christmas Villain (Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, etc.): The Abomidable Snowman

Snowman or Snow Angel? Snowwwman Grrrr!

Favorite Christmassy Beverage: Egg Nog (with Brandy)

Favorite Winter Sports (skiing, sledding, hockey, etc.): Skiing

A favorite Christmas memory: I remember when I was 8,getting domino rally and setting it up all over the house and playing with it all day and loving it. I don't know if it is my favorite memory but it was great.

Katie

Favorite Reindeer: Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph

Favorite Gift from Twelve Days of Christmas: A Partridge in a Pear Tree

Colorful or White Lights? Color, the more the merrier

Favorite Sweet Holiday Treat: Peppermint Bark Stuff

Favorite Christmas Movie: The Last Holiday, White Christmas, and Love Actually

Red or Green? BOTH

Favorite Christmas Song: Silent Night and All I Want for Christmas Is You and anything by Straight No Chaser

Favorite Christmas Villain (Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, etc.): You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch...

Snowman or Snow Angel? Snowman! I made the awesomest one in Idaho, it was a tiny lil cute one.

Favorite Christmassy Beverage: Egg Nog (with a lil somethin, somethin?)

Favorite Winter Sports (skiing, sledding, hockey, etc.): Skiing the bunny slopes

A favorite Christmas memory: All of us sleeping in the same room, trying to get Dad to wake up so we could run in to the living room, getting tangerines in our stockings, decorating the tree, Grampa and Uncle Hal playing their awesome song on the piano, wearing (matching!) pajamas ALL DAY, potato leek soup, when Dad got a toilet for Mom :) Future favorite Memory: Celebrating my favorite holiday with my husband! Oh my god, I have a husband.