Tis' the Season

For those of you who may or may not know me well, I absolutely love the Thanksgiving and Christmas season! I am not a fan of cold weather, and especially dislike the wind (especially the way it is here, w/o hills or many trees). But I still have an incredible love for Christmas. I truly think if it were up to me, I would take off of work all of December so my house could be over-decorated, full of Christmas-type food, my favorite of which being candy (thanks to my mom for instilling that in me) and singing and dancing to Christmas music everyday.

Now Christmas is really my favorite holiday, to be honest, I think I include Thanksgiving for 2 reasons: 1. It is the day before Black Friday, which in my family is the greater than Thanksgiving and 2. After Thanksgiving has been completed it means we are officially in the Christmas season.

There will be a few new things (hopefully) added unto the Janssen household Christmas this year such as a new tree (we have huge ceilings and thus we need a bigger tree), outdoor decorations, and last but definitely not least, the amazing Christmas villages that are my Nanny's (mom's mom) that I have adored since I was a small child. My Nanny is still alive and well, she just doesn't enjoy decorating as much and apparently I asked her before I was actually tall enough to be eye to eye with the villages if I could have them when she died (sensitive child, I know).

Anyway, as I work all I can think about is wanting to go home and start getting ready to decorate for my favorite holiday that goes way too quickly for my liking.

And for fun here's a list of things I like to do or would like to do this Christmas season!
1. Go to Chickasha to see the lights (Mike proposed to me there, check out the picture) http://http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30241529&l=f7dcbd265e&id=79800937
2. Go Ice Skating & Snow Tubing in Bricktown (I've been saying I would do this for a couple of years and it has yet to happen, this year it will)
3. Drink hot chocolate and sit in with the lights out looking at the tree and various lights.
4. Yukon Christmas in the Park:attend a minimum of 4 times...
5. drive around and see other peoples Christmas lights/decorations.
6. Shop and find great deals on Christmas gifts (I do love Black Friday).
7. Watch Christmas movies, including the old TV specials such as Rudolph.
8. Wear a tacky Christmas sweater to a party (I really want to have a tacky Christmas sweater party).
9. eat lots of great food
11. My favorite: spend time with friends and family rejoicing in the birth of my Savior!