Cast your vote!!!

I was not going to let us get up to 50 comments. I think we needed a fresh new picture to get us excited about Christmas! Okay, we need to make a decision... duh. Read the last few comments on the previous post and then let's have everyone respond and have it all finalized by 9 p.m. Friday (tomorrow).

CHRISTMAS continued...

So... some Christmas traditions are worth keeping around and others are meant to be changed from time to time. There has been a lot of discussion about how we are going to do things this year and it is time we finalize our plan. It would be nice to do a big conference call and have everyone share their opinions but I figured that is what the BLOG is for... right? Okay, the cruise thing is out of the question at this point (maybe we can do it later in the year or something) and Jen and Ryan have a connection with a condo through Launa... but that is looking like it might not happen. So I think we need to answer these few questions...

Do we want to do a gift exchange? Do we want to go somewhere? What do we want to do Christmas morning? Do we want to start any new traditions?

David and I were talking the other day and we came up with some different ideas. We could do a stocking exchange and stuff each others stockings, we could include mom and the little ones in on a stocking/gift exchange. We can bag the whole gift thing. We could still go to Disneyland.

Really, we need to decide if we want a gift exchange or not now that we are not going on a cruise and even if we spend our money on something smaller, let's have a plan for Christmas morning!

My ideas... I think we should do a bunch of little things throughout the week. We could go to Newport and take a gondola ride and see all the Christmas lights on Newport harbor. We could all go to Toys-R-Us and buy a toy to take to an orphanage. We could have a bake-off and see who can make a tastiest treat. We could go caroling at a nursing home. We could ding-dong-ditch a gift to someone we know. Anyway... we can still do an exchange Christmas morning and we can just be creative about what we give.

Please post your thoughts and opinions...