Family Christmas Memories (A 2021 Reflection)

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