Christmas Trees

This one is from my cousin in Quincy:

" I remember cutting down our Christmas trees!

You guys would come up Thanxgiving and the day after we would all squeeze into our family vehicles and drive up into the mountains to cut down our Christmas Trees.

We would all take turns with that orange saw my dad had, and you would amuse yourself by shoving snow down our collars, throwing snowballs, or shaking the snow off of trees onto us!

Fun times!

This year we're taking our own kids out to cut down a Christmas tree...so the tradition has now made it to another generation!"

Ha!! I remember that!!

Those were the days!!

Cookie Exchange

Thank you Kelly in Chico for sharing this tradition:

"For the past 4 years I have hosted a Cookie Exchange at my house.
The invitations are sent out 4 weeks in advance to give everyone plenty of time to plan.
On the invitation I ask that each attendee mail their recipe to me 2 weeks before the party and I ask them to bring 6 dozen cookies made from their submitted recipe.
I have the recipes compiled into a festive cookbook and printed.

During the party my husband is working behind the scenes to divide all the cookies evenly between all the attendees. (When each attendee leaves they will take with then 6 dozen assorted cookies and a cookbook filled with all the recipes for those cookies)

The ladies snack on veggie trays, deviled eggs, and all manor of NOT sweet treats (to compensate for all those cookies!!!) while we play a variety of Holiday games to win small prizes I purchased and wrapped ahead of time.

It really is a lot of fun and I look forward to doing it each year!"


Now this is what I am talking about!!!

Sure sounds yummy.

Anyone else have a tradition or a recipe they want to share?? Don't be shy!