Easter glory....Passover peace...

This morning's beauty is brought to us by God, both in the celebration of Easter and the miracle of Passover.  God's blessings on us all....

Five Question Friday on a Saturday

1. What giveaway would you like to do on your blog?

If money were not an object, I would give a way an iPad 3.  I hear its great and I am sure any one would like to win it!

2. If you had to choose between natural artistic ability and natural athletic ability, which would it be?

I would choose natural artistic ability, since it is too easy to lose the athletic ability to an injury or due to age.  Natural artistic ability has more potential and can get better with age.  Not having too much natural athletic ability, I personally don't miss having it.

3. Do you ditch the coat the minute it becomes "spring" or are you a holdout for more cool temps?

I did fall to the trick of Mother Nature, somewhat.  I did pull some items out, but did not do a fully re submerge my family into the spring/summer wardrobe.

4. What would you do if you won the mega millions lotto of 1/2 billion dollars?

Buy a couple of vacation homes, buy a house to live in while construction was done on mine, buy a Mercedes S-class, put away money for all my kid's college educations, all my daughter's weddings, down payments for all their future homes, travel, run a charity in Ecuador, building homes, visit family in Ecuador and buy an estate there, buy new computers, cars for my family members, give to charity. :)  I have no problem filling in all that....I had my fill in one of my blogs, which was an experiment to help my think a LOT bigger than I currently was thinking.  It is a lot of fun and FULL of my "what if I had more money than I could dream of" ideas.

5. You are at a hotel by yourself...what do you do?

Take a very long bath, give myself a mani-pedi, read, play on my iPad, workout.  Love it. :)

Another 5 questions...

Hey there!  In a time crunch today, so in order to save time, I am yet again stealing the 5 questions from none other than Amy!

Here they are:

1. Do you open presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

Depends.  On Christmas Eve, we open our presents from my parents, usually at their home and 

on Christmas Day at our home in the morning, then at Grandpa's in the afternoon.

2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie (or candy)?

I love the cookie cake Christmas cookies that my Sis in law Christina usually makes. They are so yummy!!

3. What’s the worst Christmas gift you’ve ever received?

Probably a grab bag gift of some sort....it was bad enough not to remember.

4. Christmas song that you love?

Oh, my gosh, there are so many....It came upon a midnight clear, Go Tell it on the Mountain, O Holy Night....I can name more, but I will not bore you...

5. How many trees do you put up?

We put up one big one, that has the lights built into it (the best investment, ever!!) and our Jesse Tree, which I will tell you more about in my next entry...hopefully tomorrow~

Loudly yours,

 

Alicia

5 questions....

Here is a fun format I borrowed from my Sister in law, Amy.

1. What’s on the top of your holiday wish list and why?

The thing at the top of my holiday wish list is a flip cam so I could capture the kids and record songs for my Cherubs choir so they could rehearse at home.

2. What is your favorite Christmas gift from the past?

My parents used to be able to find a way to get me most of what I was wishing for at Christmas, so nothing comes to mind as a kid opening  up gifts, but my favorite memory of a Christmas present was the year I started working and could afford to get my family a DVD player with a couple of DVDs.  I think I was more excited to have them open up their gift more than any other gift I have ever opened up, with the exception of my Daughter, Vianne, who was born on Christmas Day.  She was, hands down, my best Christmas gift. :0)

 

3. If you had life to do over, what would you be when you grow up?

If I had life to do over again, I would be a professional singer, singing on Broadway as a young person, then have my family and find a way to blend both my family life and my singing career together.  I am lucky enough to have venues in which to sing on a weekly basis.  Honestly, I did it backwards from what I would have liked.  I have my family and I am singing professionally, but not as big a venue as I'd like, but I am happy just having the chance to share the talent loaned to me from God.

4. When do you put up your tree?

Right after Thanksgiving. It allows us to enjoy the tree longer.  We usually keep it up until our Anniversary in January, in honor of our getting married with the Manger at Church.

5. What is your favorite Holiday?

My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving since it is a time to be grateful, and it is not as stressful as Christmas.  Christmas is a close second, but with all the kids, it can get crazy, so Thanksgiving comes first. :)

 

Loudly yours,

Alicia