My wife's side of the family does the Christmas Eve thing where as our family always opened our gifts on Christmas morning.
How can you open gifts on Christmas Eve when Santa hasn't had time to make all his deliveries yet?
So we go over to her family and I allow my kids to open one gift and the rest we open on Christmas day with the fam.
And I love stuffing my pie-hole with tamales on Christmas.
Christmas Vacation, Holiday inn, and Lemon Drop Kid.
Gotta love it!!
We used to go christmas eve to Windcrest and look at all the lights, but now the neighborhood is kinda rundown I guess, and they dont have the contest anymore.
Some of the other traditions,
christmas dinner at about 4 in the afternoon then going to a movie.
other than that, nothing other than the traditional, shop for famly members, and gettin the tree at Papa Noel.
When visiting, we go to my m-i-l's on Christmas Eve and my parents on Christmas. But we stay with them, anyway.
Zak, my dog will be spoiled rotten this year. We are bringing her with us and I'm sure my dad will be loading her up with goodies. Last year, he actually gave us a present to give to her (we flew, so she didn't come) and told me not to tell my sister because he never got anything for her dog!My parents fell in love with her when they saw her for the first time last year.
Growing up in my house with 4 girls and no boys was definitely an interesting place to live. On Christmas morning one sister always got up earlier than the rest of us and went through everyone's Santa stocking to see if she liked what anyone else was getting better than what she got so she could switch things around. It got to be a contest to see if we could beat her to the punch. By the time I was a teenager we were getting up at 3:30am in the morning to claim our stocking and loot. Then we would take the stuff back to bed with with us to protect it from her. She's still evil !!
...2Blonde
Throwing the sweat pants that grandma gives you to the back of the closet!
No! Tell grandma I'm giving you sweat pants this year!
Ah yes Manny! The good 'ol Daisy Air Rifle. How bout his old man's lamp made from a stockinged womans leg!
Red Rider BB Gun??
"youll shoot your eye out"
Fra geee lay.... Must be italian.
Tpark, we went to Windcrest last year to take a walk down Memory Lane and they still have the contest, but it sure isn't as big a deal as it used to be and the decorations sure aren't as awesome as they used to be, but they give out maps and everything telling you were the winner's houses are etc.
Anybody know of the best neighborhoods to go look at lights nowadays??
Braun Station has 2 good streets off of Tezel that go all out every year. I know 2 people that live on one of them and it's a requirement to decorate or all the neighbors will hate you. The streets are right by Braun Satation Elementary. You can't miss them. Just look for the glow.
Hook, if we have a GTG around christmas time I'll bring you some.
Ok, I wasn't reallly thinking when I posted that. I guess I was really saving those all this time.No! Tell grandma I'm giving you sweat pants this year!
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