Christmasy Stuffs

Greetings to all of you,

  I know it has been a bit busy since I posted last so it has been some time.  But fear not, there has been much happening.  A lot of it has been work, which just hasn't been all that fun.  Also we finished out scouts for the year.  

Now then, as far as Christmas stuff goes, we have been having our advent dinners.  It has been really nice to get every one together and just get to relax.  As you may have guessed our last one will be tomorrow.  

The tree and inside stuff went up the friday after Thanksgiving.  A week or so later the outside lights went up and had a timer and all.  I should probably put a few pictures of them up so you can all bask.  It is not at the levels of Spud extravaganza, but I do have lights up outside. 

This morning I made Christmas cookies!  There are now happy chocolate chip cookies and not so happy oatmeal raisin cookies.  The oatmeal raisin cookies lack cohesion.  I think that I may need to get a new recipe for them.  But the chocolate chip ones came out quite nicely.  And they are red and green for the holiday spirit.  

Tonight we will be having a Holiday movie marathon.  I am working to watch all of our holiday movies plus a few that we rented.  I have made up a list of Holiday movies that we own (in no particular order):

• Bells of St. Mary's
  
• Muppet Christmas Carol
  
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
  
• The Year without a Santa Claus
  
• White Christmas
  
• Santa Claus is coming to Town
  
• Frosty the Snowman
  
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
  
• Little Drummer Boy
  
• Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
  
• Cricket on the Hearth
  
• Frosty Returns
  
• Christmas with the Simpsons
  
• The Simpson's Christmas 2
  

Now before you ask, I don't really know this Cricket on the Hearth business, it was in a set of Christmas DVDs and I knew all the others.

I need to look into getting Its a Wonderful Life as well and would like to get National Lampon's Christmas Vacation.  Feel free to add your suggestions too.