12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Christmas With A Southwestern Twist

I’m giving a digital picture frame to my mother.

I’ve bought Bruce Robison’s latest album for my gradmother.

I gave my kid brother his gift a little early, so he could go on and enjoy himself. I had a little bit of money saved up for nothing in particular, and I gave it to him on Thanksgiving. The next day, he went out and spent it all on an iPod. It really felt great, seeing him so happy as he ran up to me with his iPod in hand, showing me how amazing he was at the games on it, hehe.

All of us grandchildren are getting my grandmother a digital picture frame filled with pictures of all of us. She loves pictures of us and she has a hard time replacing older pictures with newer one, and now she won’t have too.

I’ve been scouring ebay to find cheap and/or used copies of some of my dad’s favorite LPs that are now available on CD. I’m going to load up a CD book with all of those classic albums i remember him playing when I was a kid.

I made my sister a calendar of her trip to Israel. I can’t wait to give it to her.

oh my B day is the 30th too!

I’m getting (have gotten) Mom a digital camera. She’s 74 and my dad is 76 and they got their first computer this summer so I think they need a digital camera. They also have a new (their very first) great-grandchild (in Oct) so they need the camera to capture all the moments and view them right away. My mom seldom takes pictures any more because she always waits forever to develop them (ie: develops Christmas pictures the following Halloween). Now they can take them, view them, and make prints if they want to, all in a day’s time. I’ve got my dad one of those digital picture viewers about the size of a credit card so he can take the baby pics (or other pics) with him in his shirt pocket when he goes to the drugstore to have coffee with the guys every morning.

My friend, Tiffany, and her husband can’t afford to buy gifts for each other this year…only for their kids. So, I am getting them each something. I can’t afford much, but I know some small things that make them really happy.

we’re making my mom shutterfly photo books and giving her a recipe book thats blank so she can fill it with her favorite recipes and ours :)

Bought My sister a Montreal Canadiens book, Her wall is plastered with montreal Canadiens posters so I’m hoping she loves this one.

I’m giving my 83 year old Dad a digital TV converter box so he can continue to watch his favorite old TV out in the garage where he can smoke his cigars in peace. I think the $ 40 discount coupon I got off the internet came directly from Santa! (lol)

i am hoping to find a brand new mac under the christmas tree, i’m just hoping my pc doesn’t bite the dust in the next week.

I already got mine — a new laptop (so I can use the computer downstairs) and a brand new 120GB ipod — what more could a girl want…..i dont think there will be anything under the tree — I might try to find something for my husband but he is impossible to buy for — usually buy him something to do with the OSU Buckeyes, too bad I cannot afford to buy tickets to the Fiesta Bowl –

Oh, and I already got the present that makes me smile the most..an iPhone. Best thing ever for someone who works at a place where most of the net is blocked.

My husband doesn’t know it..I’m getting him an IPod Touch. I’m the music freak, he’s the sitcom freak. He’ll be able to watch shows in his tractor trailer w/o lugging around a tv..

I’m giving my 3-year-old a Disney Princess bike, one what she’s been asking for since about June or so. I can’t wait to see her face on Christmas morning.

I’m most excited about giving my 4 yr old niece the Christmas song books she asked for. It’s a set of those cardboard books and a CD with three Christmas carols — Silent Night, Away in a Manger, and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. My Mom was a former music teacher and died last summer. This grandchild loves music and sings all the time. Can’t help thinking Mom would smile to see her open and love a gift like that. Keeps the music and the faith alive.

I am very excited about giving my Brother a signed copy of Eric Church’s “Sinners Like Me”. I got a copy of the lyrics that he wrote personally, and he signed it. I think my bro will love it, as we are both HUGE Eric Church fans.

Stormy: those are awesome selections.

My brother, sister, and myself are giving our Mom one of those mother’s rings with all 3 of our birthstones in it … I think it will really put a smile on her face.

I gave my son a vacation to Flordia to see his Grandma. He will be spending Christmas with her which will make her happy but I will miss him not hear with me.