Family Christmas Memories (A 2021 Reflection)

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