It is the first day of the 12 days of Christmas blog challenge! Today is all about Traditions...
Christmas in my family comes with lots of tradition (or things we do year after year). It all starts by going to pick out a tree either the first or second weekend in December. We would get the tree home and my brother and I would help my mom and dad decorate. My dad was in charge of the lights and the rest of us were in charge of the decorations.
Then Christmas eve would always start with going out to a family friends house and exchanging gifts and just visiting. Then it was time for Christmas Eve service at our church. My brother and I always loved Christmas eve service because during the last song everyone would get candles and light them. We were fire bugs as children and would always try to get the wax to drip places that it really should not. Then we would ride around our town to look at Christmas lights. The Christmas decorations were pretty impressive in our little town and we enjoyed this every year!
After we got home for the evening we would each get to pick one present to open that night. After that we would put out a Coca Cola and some cookies for Santa. When we were small my mom would then read us the Night Before Christmas book and we would go to sleep.
From as far as I can remember my brother and I always woke up at around 3AM or 4AM on Christmas to go downstairs to see what Santa left for us. After looking at all of our treasures we would wake out parents. After about an hour or so we would head back to bed until the morning.
After breakfast the next morning we would open presents!
This year it is going to be totally different because I am married now. I can not wait to read about all of you guys traditions so I can maybe adopt some of them for ourselves :)
Have a great Monday!
This year it is going to be totally different because I am married now. I can not wait to read about all of you guys traditions so I can maybe adopt some of them for ourselves :)
Have a great Monday!
Hopefully your married holidays and traditions will be fun and stress free unlike mine to come :) haha! I love that you would wake up at 3am for Santa. I could never sleep at night trying to "hear" santa on the roof :)
ReplyDeleteHopefully you'll get some good ideas for life as a married couple with holiday traditions!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining in the challenge!!
I love this!!! It will be bittersweet to make your new traditions this year!
ReplyDeleteOur Christmas Eve service at church always has the candles too! To this day, my brother and I play with the wax LOL
ReplyDeleteLove your childhood traditions! You'll enjoy making new ones with your husband this year :)
ReplyDeleteI would love to be able to pick out a tree someday! We've always had to have fake ones because of allergies and I feel like I'm missing out on part of Christmas
ReplyDeleteI love that yall would wake your parents up so early. Thats awesome :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is our Christmas Eve service too! I love it!
ReplyDeleteHopefully your traditions will stay somewhat the same. I know ours are changing a bit since we're on our own this year, but I think it will still be fun!
I love going to our Christmas Eve service too! I love that your family would pick out a tree together! I want GH and I to do the same once we decide to buy a house!
ReplyDeleteLove your blog so cute and your puppies are presh!! OK so the coca cola idea for santa is awesome I just may have to snag that one LOL love all of your traditions
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Summer
OMG! My parents would kill me if I ever woke them up that early! I swear my mother drugged me! No joke! Haha!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing along :)
Love your traditions!
ReplyDeleteIt seems fairly common among the people I know that they could only pick one present to open on Christmas eve.
I am thinking ours will be a little different since we are married -- congrats on being newlywed -- J and I were married March 13, 2010 =)
I'm not married but I live with my man ... and my biggest advice is to come up with something special just for the two of you --- whether it's breakfast or what, you need something!
ReplyDeleteYAY for new traditions! :)
ReplyDeleteOur Santa always watned Dr. Pepper..when "he" got older he wanted a Diet Pepsie!!
ReplyDeleteWe always got to pick one present out also! It was always new PJ's. Darn I forgot a lot in my post! ha!
It is soo much fun to start your own traditions!!
Sorry..Pepsi. Need to proof before I hit send!!!
ReplyDeletei LOVE going around and checking out everyone's Christmas lights. and It's A Wonderful Life is a great movie.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment! I'm pretty excited for the Flying V :) it's the one time of year these movies leave their cases.
ReplyDeleteToo funny that you guys put out Coke instead of milk! I thought that was cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment! :) and i'm so excited to have a new follower!
I always wanted to wake up early and open presents the day of Christmas. Knowing I'd get presents on Christmas Eve at NIGHT made for a long long day :)
ReplyDeleteI love that you all would have the Night Before Christmas read to you.