My favorite recipe - Meet Mic Chambers, Colfax

Christmas isn’t Christmas for Mic Chambers and her husband Tom without a collection of Santas, Christmas Bears and grandchildren.

Mic collects Santa figures, then decorates her home and Christmas tree with them. Tom collects Christmas bears, specially designed bears that come out every year with the year embroidered on each one’s foot.

“We’ve bought them every year since 79,” Tom said. The collection of bears fills two spare rooms in the house.

Mic and Tom were both born in Butte, Mont. When she was five, Mic’s family moved to southern California and she lived there until graduating from schoo...