On Christmas Eve, it is our family tradition to watch The Polar Express. Then we leave out Santa's cookies and read Twas' the Night Before Christmas. Then we attempt to try and fall asleep. On Christmas morning we all go open presents and have homemade doughnuts and then we hang out until lunchtime then we go for a walk in the state park. Afer that we go to our grandma's house for dinner and our dad's second cousins (I think) are there too. Then we have dinner blah blah blah. That's basically all we do. Sorry about typos I'm no used to this new laptop.

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On Christmas Eve, we go to my dad's side's grandparents to decorate their tree, open presents, and play games. Then we go home and eat dinner and go to church. Then we put out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Then we tell everyone we're going to sleep, but secretly stay up half the night anticipating, reading, and listening. Then in the morning we all wake up and I wait in my parents' room until Ellie is done in the bathroom trying not to die of I-wanna-open-presents-phobia because that's totally a thing. Then we finally go to the kitchen, open our stockings, and eat breakfast. Then we open our gifts from each other, play some games, and eat lunch. Then we go to my grandparents' (on my mom's side) house to see our cousins who live in California. And by "see" I mean play various video games all day with them. BOOM!

MERRY TWO-DAYS-AFTER-CHRISTMAS!

I know this is late, but I just noticed this thread. This Christmas was absolutely amazing! Our family visits my cousin, aunt, and uncle at their house every Christmas Eve morning, and we all open one gift each. Then we go to church, and lastly we eat a huge feast and bake cookies. Then my family drives back home late at night, and we go right to bed at our house. It isn't a problem for me since I'm always so tired from the three-hour-long car ride! It's a tradition now that Tessa (my younger sister) comes to a "sleepover" in my bedroom that night, and she brings in her sleeping bag and everything. The two of us wake up at around 8:00 am on Christmas, and we dance around in my room listening to Christmas radio stations. Then we run into my parents' room and literally jump on their bed and yell, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Of course, my older sister Eliza wakes up from all the racket, and we run downstairs and open our stockings. Then we eat eggs, bacon, and oranges for breakfast, and around 11:00 to noon we open our real presents under the tree. The rest of the day is cozy, just the five of us watching movies and Tessa playing with all of her toys. I love Christmas. =)

@ Admins: I'm glad y'all took Christmas off! Sounds like a very blessed holiday.

This year on Christmas Eve, I baked Thumbprint Preserves cookies, listened to Christmas music, and watched Christmas movies most of the day (namely A Christmas Carol). Then in the evening, my family gathered in the living room and we watched It's A Wonderful Life. I think watched Frosty the Snowman & The Night Before Christmas in bed, attempting to calm myself and do last minute revisions to Christmas presents. (Then of course I spent half the night reading and lying in bed totally unable to sleep.)

On Christmas Day, it is the one day of the year I will actually willingly get up early for. So I spent at least half an hour sitting on my bedroom floor waiting for my parents to come and get me and tell me it's okay to come down. Once they did, I charged down the stairs, to find the presents stacked under the tree, stockings filled, and gifts from Santa out in the open. We open stockings first, then presents, and have a breakfast of cinnamon rolls while we unwrap. 

After presents, we spend the day getting ready for the Christmas dinner, enjoying our gifts, and relaxing.

Naturally, I got sick this Christmas, so I spent a lot of it resting. Otherwise though it was great! My whole family really enjoyed it, and Christmas dinner was fantastic.

I'm sorry you got sick!

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My dad had to work Christmas Eve , so we opened one present from our grandma . Then we went to bed  . ( I didn't , I stayed up on the computer lol ) & we woke up at about 9  , and opened gifts , then we watched movies , and my friend Marissa and my other friend Ciara came over . We don't really have any cool traditions lol .

I go to a huge family party and eat shrimp and little hot dogs, we also get a bag full of random stuff, everyone takess something, if it's good you where nice if it's bad you where naughty. We also do that the kids  give each other presants.

My holiday season was (and is) kinda spread over a week or so this year. My favorite "Christmas preset" came on Saturday and Sunday in the form of my cousins, some of whom didn't see each other in nie years or so.

Anyways, Christmas eve, we went to my grandparents house on my father's side, and had fun with my step-family. We came home, made cookies, and went to bed early. I then didn't sleep until after my parents went to bed (Which was about four hours after we girls went to bed.)I then woke at around five and waited until wewere allowed to get up, atseven. The moment the clock hit seven, there was a mad stampede (my sisters) to the living room, and I followed, still a bit tired. We opened stockings (DVDs! My sisters and I are most excited over the Waltons, two full seasons plus all of the movies made afterwards. I am excited over the Little Women movie, with Katharine Hempburn)  and woke my parents up (multiple times) and had our morning prayer. Then we opened the presents under the tree. My sisters and I got some awesome gifts (Like a year's worth of Cricket magazines from 1982! It was so different thn! They had multiple contests an issue, with the catagories being 5-8 and 9-12 or something. I couldn't submit to a contest if it were like that now. Wow.) 

We then had a brunch and proceeded with the anual cleaning out the romms to make room for the new things (this year two large bookshelves were the main priority). We only finished the clean up yesterday. The rest of Chistmas was a lazy day, as was Friday. We watched Polar Express, though.I was so excited to learn that there is a French version on our DVD, and the words on the tickets in the French version are changed to French! 

Saturday, we spent a really fun day with my cousins, who I haven't seen in three years. We went to my grandpa's house, and had a lot of fun playing chess, talking, laughing, and just having fun and getting reaquainted. It was one of the best days of the year for me, because family is one of the best things about the holidays in my opinion. 

Note that I said one of the best days. The next day, Sunday, was the best day of the year for me. Not only were the cousins from Saturday still there (three of them) but also, my aunt's family was coming (that's six more cousins. Or, five, because one of them couldn't make it.). We had about twenty people in the house, and it was amazing. I have not laughed so often and so hard in the longest time ever. I think my family was best aquainted with everyone there, because we spent the previous day with one family but we see the other family more often, but after a while, it really didn't matter. Everyone just hit off. 

We, the cousins, played multiple games of chess (out of the eleven cousins, eight of us play chess, and most of us like to watch it.). Shouting matches occured a few times (so much that the adults had to come in and tell us to tone it down) but it was (mostly) in good fun. Then we had two games of Apples to Apples, one with seven people, and another with all eleven. It was the best fun I'd had in a while - really. There was so much laughter and singing (one of the older cousins would just start a tune, and whoever knew the words joined in. When the three older boys did a rendition of Veggie Tales "Oh no, whattcha gonna do" with the background noise and the words, it was amazing. As was when they did "Everything you know is wrong".  You have to be there for somethign like this, but I'll say it again, but yesterday was the ebst day ever yesterday. (And today's Butterfly's BD and on New Years, we might see my cousins (the larger family) again! 

Belated Merry Christmas everyone!