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Now I had to dig for this photo of my daughter’s first Christmas. She was born in January so when Christmas came around she was very mobile and almost a year old. We celebrated big by getting her a Step Two Victorian Kitchen that is still used to this day, almost six years and another child later. She’s always been my princess, cuddle buddy and shopping guru.
From the time they were both very little we’ve been shoppers for others at Christmas. We love going to the store to purchase things for others and Babies R Us is a great place to get everything you need for a babies first Christmas.
Another family tradition is that we love to fill photo frames with a family picture and with pictures from the kids together. One year 20 years from now we’ll have a Christmas tree full of family memories.
We love to play with LEGOS
And we spend every December playing with Advent Calendars. We used to just refill this one that you see below, but now we go all out with LEGO Advent Calendars. The LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2013 and the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar 2013 .
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My Christmas memories are of going to my grandparents house. All the cousins used to go out caroling while the adults visited. It was a ton of fun. We also were allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve. My kids have the same tradition of one gift on Christmas Eve.
My family goes to church on Christmas Eve.
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I have a Christmas breakfast with my children,grandchildren, and my mother. We show up in our pj’s. We cook and eat breakfast together. Than we open presents. It’s relaxed and the kids love it.
Well, I guess our tradition is opening gifts on Christmas Eve and waiting for Santa to come!
My Christmas memories include being so excited for Santa to come. Our neighbor would dress up as Santa and us kids would be so happy!! Now, with our kids we always get together with family on Christmas Eve and Christmas and enjoy great food and family time together.
This is my baby’s first Christmas! I hope to make a lot of memories this year!
Some of our traditions are doing an advent calendar to celebrate the days leading up to Christmas. We enjoy putting up our Christmas tree as a family and decorating our home. We always go to my inlaws house for Christmas Eve and stay home with my extended family on Christmas day!
Every year my brother comes over and we watch movies, eat, talk and unwrap gifts.
We always put the tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving and play Christmas music. We also like to drive around and look at the lights. This will be our first year with a real advent calendar since our son is now 3 and understands it more.
We usually open one gift on Christmas Eve and then watch Christmas movies. We also do the Lego Advent calendar each year and this year added an Angry Birds advent calendar to the mix.
We drive around and look at the Christmas light displays.
We drive around on Christmas Eve and look at Christmas lights
We sing Christmas Songs and drink egg nog while decorating the tree 🙂
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One of our traditions is baking cookies as a family for Santa on Christmas Eve.
My family always opens one gift on Christmas Eve. I remember as kids my brother and I would change our minds over and over on what gift we chose to open.
We have a yankee swap every Christmas Eve
I always get each of my boys a new pair of pajamas and they get to open them on christmas eve
We always go around Christmas time and drive around looking at Christmas lights. The kids love it and we get to relax doing it. It is great. Thanks for the chance to enter.
We take family pictures on Christmas and make a photo calendar every year
We say a prayer and all hold hands and that’s pretty much one of our standard traditions
One Christmas tradition of ours is to each open one gift on Christmas Eve!
I remembering spending the night with my family at my grannies and trying to sneak a peek into her front room to see all the presents! 🙂
We always have Christmas Eve with my mom, sister and her family. We also have a get together for extended family a few days before.
Our tradition is driving around looking at all the Christmas lights.
My favorite Christmas memories are Christmas Eve with the entire family at my grandparents house – lots of food, games, music, laughs.. and they always had someone dressed as Santa show up (complete with noises on the roof). Just such a magical time. As I got older I’d spend the days leading up to Christmas Eve baking with my grandma & cousins. We still have a big family gathering like my grandparents would host now that they are gone.
We like to have a big breakfast after we open presents on Christmas morning.
we love to bake cookies
We put up the tree and a ton of lights each year. My fav thing is to driving around and see everyone’s Xmas lights, especially if there is a nice snow on the ground.
We get to open one present Christmas Eve and then open all the others Christmas morning.
On Christmas eve, my entire family gathers around and exchanges gifts and we eat seafood gumbo. The next morning, the kids wake up to see what santa brought and we all get dressed up and head to church!
We love to open 1 present each on Christmas eve. My mom comes into town to stay with us. We wake up and have a special breakfast before opening presents.
a tradition is that we open all our gifts on Christmas eve!
My Christmas traditions are decorating the tree.
We like to go our and look at Christmas lights in our neighborhood every year as a tradition.
We have Christmas eve at my aunts house on my dad’s side. Santa comes with small gifts for the little ones. We have Christmas morning at our house then my parents and brother join for a nice breakfast. Then We head to my Grandmothers house on my moms side. My kids are lucky enough to have 4 great grandparents to Celebrate this special holiday with!
we put up the tree o my son’s birthday 12-9
we get together on Christmas Eve to eat, watch movies, and play games
Making Christmas cookies and listening to Christmas music!
We like going or watching movies after christmas festivities
We usually play board or card games after Christmas dinner.
gathering with the family to decorate Christmas cookies 😉
Santa gets a plate of the best cookies… & we have cookies & cocoa/coffee on Christmas Day
We love to watch cartoons, play board or card games after Christmas dinner.
My favorite Christmas memories are baking, and our traditions include decorating for the holidays.
Christmas Brunch at Grammas
We put the tree up the day after Thanksgiving.
My favorite memory is my mom making two special casseroles every Christmas morning and I’ve continued the same tradition with my family
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Our favorite Christmas tradition is to build a gingerbread house as a family.
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Our tradition is baking and decorating cookies together while we listen to Christmas music and most of my memories revolve around that.
Our tradition is to watch a christmas story and I remember going to my grandmother’s after opening presents and playing all night with my cousins and then later that night playing board games
for us we always go and pick out a real tree.
i love going to the tree farm has a family.
Lots of memories of the kids being surprised. We have a tradition that the kids get to empty their stockings in the morning but presents are in the evening. Keeps the excitement going all day.
My favorite memory is of each of the kids when they were just babies laying them in a wicker laundry basket under the tree. They always watched in amazement and feel asleep looking at the lights.
Baking and decorating cookies with my little ones 🙂
The kids always get up early and get their stockings, after everyone gets up we open presents and then have a big family breakfast.
We get together as a family on Christmas morning.
One of our Christmas traditions is that we always watch A Christmas Story as a family on Christmas eve.
Every year we take two family photos. One with everyone looking normal and smiling and one “crazy” photo.
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One of our traditions, we call the Rudolph kiss! During the night on Christmas Eve, we put a little red lipstick circle on each kids hand. Its Rudolph’s kiss! The kids get so excited waking up Christmas morning and looking for their kiss from Rudolph!
Every year before Christmas we go out and look at Christmas lights, then come home for cocoa and cookies.
For years, we go to Christmas eve mass. Usually around 5:00 pm on Christmas eve we’ll go to mass and meet up with my brother & his family and my Dad. After mass everyone comes over to our home and we enjoy dinner together.
I host Christmas dinner for the whole family every year and we watch holiday movies after we eat.
Every year my mom makes us a huge Polish feast for dinner.
Our tradition is to stay home on Christmas day with just our family and not leave the house! We visit with family on other days around the holiday, but the 25th is devoted to just our family.
Our tradition includes opening one gift on Christmas eve…..its always pajamas
We put up the tree the day after Thanksgiving. On Christmas Eve we go to my grandma’s house and Christmas Day my mom’s house.
We give the kids Christmas pajamas on Christmas eve.
we all work together to get CHristmas lights up on the house for the neighborhood Christmas contest
We have beef fondue for dinner on Christmas eve.
My grandparents have had Santa stop by every Christmas Eve after dinner since I was a little girl. Now my sons are enjoying the tradition!
We always set up an advent calendar, too. I loved them as a child!
We always read about Jesus’ birth on Christmas morning.
We go look at Christmas lights as a family and I ready a Christmas story to my kids every night from Thanksgiving until Christmas.
Every year, we decorate and bake sugar cookies together.
My funniest memory is opening the pajamas that Nana made every year for us. They never fit right and were always strange fabrics. My favorite tradition is opening all the “family” gifts on Christmas eve, going to Christmas eve service at church, then opening “Santa” gifts on Christmas morning.
our Christmas tradition is to have cinnamon rolls Christmas morning
Being from Germany, St. Nick always makes an appearance at our house and fills our stockings up with goodies!
We started our traditions last year really. The kids wait at the top of the stairs until everyone arrives and then we let them come down so we can all enoy their expressions!
at my dads we would always light candles and drink egg nog on christmas eve then get up and open all the gifts
My favorite Christmas memories are the cherished ones with loved ones that have since past and can no longer join in future traditions such as caroling, christmas eve get togethers and christmas morning hot cocoa by the tree!
My family’s Christmas tradition is to drive around and look at lights on Christmas Eve and then come home to open presents and enjoy hot cocoa. I remember the first time we opened presents on Christmas Eve and I was in such shock that Santa stopped by early.
Our tradition is every year we buy an ornament for my 2 kids and they help me decorate the tree.
I remember getting up in the middle of the night with my sisters to see what Santa left us! We’d meticulously go through our stockings, laying everything out and putting it all back into the stocking in the same order!
we always string popcorn for the tree and my mom is famous for her Christmas sweaters
I enjoy opening a single present on christmas eve.
My favorite memories are decorating the Christmas tree. It’s so much fun!
My favorite memories when I was young I would leave cookies and eggnog out for Santa. Another favorite memory as a child was going with my mom and dad to get a fresh Christmas tree every year.
We always made gingerbread boys and girls and I still make them with my daughter to this day.
My favorite tradition is having our morning christmas and then going to grandmas after
always baking pumpkin bread for gifts
Going to my Grandma’s and spending time with my family!
We always go to church on Christmas Eve and a big family potluck after. Christmas Day is food and football.
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We do a yearly family portrait in front of the tree and then use the picture to make a Christmas ornament!
We always let our children open one present on Christmas eve.
Opening gift’s on Christmas Eve and having some delicious home made egg nog!!!
Every year our whole family gets together for a Christmas Eve party, then we spend Christmas Day with our immediate family.
Each side of the family comes over to bake something different the last week before Christmas
drinking hot chocolate by the christmas tree
Baking Christmas cookies together.
We watch Christmas moves while decorating the tree the day after Thanksgiving. We open One gift n Christmas eve.
My family’s Christmas tradition is to drive around and look at lights on Christmas Eve and then come home to open one present and drink egg nog
This year I started the advent calendar tradition with my girls. I am so excited to do the activities with them! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!
We get a new personalized ornament every year
We take pictures with Santa every year as a family and then shop for ornaments.
We get the family together and every year someone new is in change of coming up with a new game to play as a family.
My kids and I walk the neighborhood every year to look at the lights.
We drive around the neighborhood oohing and aahing over all the pretty decorations.
We bake cookies together, and have a family christmas party on christmas eve
We bake Christmas cookies and make chocolate pretzels.
Every year when we were kids we would go out and pick out a christmas tree. We would decorate as a family and my mom would make us cookies.
My family and I like to celabrate on Christmas Eve. We have a huge dinner that day, we exchange presents at exactly midnight, and then all 8 siblings and our families go to the movies. We’ve been doing for years. It’s awesome!
I don’t celebrate Christmas but one year I saw Titanic with my friend at the movies and I was like the only person there!
Santa used to visit my house and my grandparents house
We do family photos every year and advent calendars. And lots of Christmas baking together!
we always watch a christmas story at least twice and laugh at the same parts year after year
Opening up a gift from grandparents on Christmas Eve
On Christmas morning we put a lit candle in a cupcake, place it in front of the manger and sing Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus.
Baking cookies
Baking LOTS of cookies with my mother & sister.
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The best tradition we have is when all the kids get together to make and decorate cookies.
our newest tradition is the elf on the shelf- that is SO much fun for my daughter!!
We always decorate the tree as a family each year and bake Christmas cookies and candies as a family.
My family always opens one gift on Christmas Eve.
We always play the dice game on Christmas with my family. My son is almost two, so this is the first year he kind of knows what is going on. I definitely am excited to start traditions with him!
My favorite tradition is baking for Santa. My girls and I bake something special for Santa every Christmas Eve. We do something different every year. Thank you!!
I love spending time with my daughters wrapping gifts and watching all the Christmas specials.
We have a tradition of opening one present on Christmas Eve. Its a lot of fun and it’s like a teaser for the next day. Thanks for the awesome giveaway 🙂
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My Christmas tradition is going to a movie and dinner on Christmas eve every year.
we always go to church on Christmas Eve and then when we get home we open one present it’s so much fun. i love Christmas with the fam!
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One Christmas tradition is we have a sleep over every year on christmas eve, and the person whose host the sleep over has to cook for the family
We go out every weekend in December to look at light displays as a family as well as bake a treat (ie cookies,sausage balls,ect)to take with us on our excursions.We always spend Christmas Eve watching movies and just spending quality time together.My oldest will be 16 on Christmas this year and I try to make the most of every day I have with them while they still want to be at home.
One of our Christmas traditions are that the kids get to open one gift on Christmas Eve night! As I was growing up that is one of my memories is being able to open one gift before bed!
Our Christmas traditions are, We come together on Christmas Eve for dinner and a Christmas movie. The next one is that my mom gives us each a new ornament each year.
buy a tree together as family
I always let the kids open one gift Christmas eve night.
making christmas ornaments together
We always watch It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day after all the presents are opened.
Every year we hang up the ornaments together, looking back on ornaments we’ve collected and how we got them. We also always record ourselves opening presents and seeing what we got and celebrate the day with eggs and bacon on Christmas morning.
Our tradition is Secret Santa for the adults in our family to cut down on the cost of having to buy everyone something
We make a nice chili on Christmas eve then on Christmas morning, we open presents, watch the parade and then go to each of the families!
Santa used to come everyday between my birthday and Christmas with a little gift.
We get a live tree at a tree farm, we watch Charlie Brown Christmas, and we string popcorn.
Christmas morning we open up all our gifts and visit families.