Family Christmas Memories (A 2021 Reflection)

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Across
  1. 4. TR's "White House of the West" and a Horn family favorite
  2. 5. We scattered these outside for santa's entourage
  3. 7. You plucked one to place on the earth each day of advent
  4. 9. Sung at Messiah, with candles
  5. 13. A sitter who helped us bake Christmas ornaments, and appeared while we were ice skating in 2019
  6. 15. Mom's won "best" at the 2019 EJACCFA Christmas Party
  7. 17. We all got them for Christmas and hid behind them for a picture
  8. 19. You made a nutcracker from these at school
  9. 20. It soiled the couch at a family gathering
  10. 21. He plunged (but lived to tell the tale)last year
  11. 24. Mom refuses to decorate with his grotesque image
  12. 26. Santa perched on a shelf here, at times
  13. 28. he stole from a baby at the Heuser white elephant
  14. 29. You likely donned one of these to liven up segments of a Messiah holiday band/choir concert
  15. 31. Creator of many homemade ornaments
  16. 32. Mom's newest "favorite" decoration
  17. 33. Santa liked these cookies when we were growing up
Down
  1. 1. Mom and Mary's favorite winter activity, to other's disdain
  2. 2. The Colo. Spgs. host
  3. 3. Skiing, hot springs, and KFC
  4. 6. You may be summoned to help mimi hang these on her tree
  5. 8. Christmas __ __ __, a Lee's Summit classic
  6. 10. A big Christmas gift that resided in the basement
  7. 11. We bought out the gift store and were the "fun table" here in 2019
  8. 12. Barbara Heuser treated you to this holiday performance
  9. 14. Many were lost to the pond
  10. 16. Grace passed them out in 2020, (unknowingly) an omen to a rough year
  11. 18. You may have enjoyed pancakes with Santa here
  12. 22. The designated Christmas angel
  13. 23. We lurked around this CO resort in 2019
  14. 25. Christmas eve entree, per mom
  15. 27. You can't beat this Colorado winter wonderland
  16. 30. A favorite Christmas movie