Christmas Traditions

 I love traditions for anything, but Christmas traditions are some of my favorite! I hope to add more traditions to our future Christmases, though!

Our tree in 2008

2009

2010

First, I'll talk about some of my traditions with my family when I was little.

-We always decorated for Christmas at Thanksgiving.

-My brother and I would always open one gift on Christmas Eve.

-We would always drive around looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve.

-My mom always had Christmas movies on, too. We always watched Home Alone, Christmas in Connecticut, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Miracle on 34th Street, Little Women, All I Want for Christmas (just to name a few!).

-When my brother and I were really little, we would sleep in my bed and talk about how excited we were to wake up in the morning. We always believed we were hearing Santa.

-Again, when we were really little, we would leave cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

-Santa never wrapped his Christmas presents.

-We would wake up early and go get our mom and dad. We opened presents in our pajamas and then ate Christmas lunch.

-After lunch, we would go see a movie.

I have many wonderful memories of past Christmases!

Here are traditions Trey and I have:

-We always get a gingerbread house to decorate, but we only decorated it last year! For several years now, we didn't even open the box. Ha! I plan on decorating one this year, though!

2008

2009

-We always decorate at Thanksgiving! (Either the weekend before or after!)

-Trey got me a pink Christmas tree, so we have two trees. It was our first tree that we owned, so it's special to us! It's now become my birthday tree, since my birthday is New Year's Eve!

the pink tree in 2006

2009

2010

-We usually have "our Christmas" on December 23 or December 24.

-We were engaged on December 24, 2004, so we always celebrate that!

December 24, 2004-just engaged!

-Trey gave me Fiona for Christmas on December 23, 2006 and she is the best gift I have ever and will ever receive!!!

Fiona's first Christmas-2006

-We always make iced sugar cookies on "our Christmas." We always make cookies in the shape of our initials (F, A, T and they unfortunately spell FAT! ha!).

cookies from 2007

cookies from 2008

2009

2010

-We always give each other Toblerone in our stockings.

2008

-We always get something for Fifi and put it in her stocking.

2010

-Since we don't live in the same state as our family, my family usually comes for the weekend before Christmas to celebrate with us.

-We usually go to Trey's family on Christmas day. On Christmas Eve, we usually have appetizers and snacky foods! We have Christmas dinner (turkey, ham, dressing, rolls, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, green salad, fruit salad, trifle, pie) and we usually open presents Christmas night. We usually help wrap the presents whenever we get there (usually Christmas Eve night).

Christmas Eve at Trey's family's house

Trey's family's tree in the past

I love our traditions and cannot wait to start more one day as our family grows (in the future)! We love OKC at Christmastime! It's wonderful!

Merry Christmas!