Welcome to the Christmas in July Hop hosted by Sarah's Blog Of Fun. We have some terrific bloggers bringing you some awesome prizes all with the Christmas Spirit in mind!!
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Christmas is my all time favorite holiday. I am not big on getting presents, but I love to give them!!! I also love to decorate!!! We start the weekend after Thanksgiving. Black Friday we buy our tree, and by Cyber Monday, the house is mostly ready to go!!
For my giveaway, I am giving away a $25 Gift Card to The Christmas Tree Shoppes. This is my go to store for decorations!!! If you don't have a Tree Shoppes, then I can substitute the gift card for a store you would like.
I am also giving away a favorite Christmas item that I collect every year!!! As you may know, I am a Disney nut!!! We try to go at least once a year. No matter how long we go for, I make a point to hit Downtown Disney to get my yearly Christmas Ornament, and magnet. This past June when we went, I made a point to get an extra ornament and magnet for this hop.
What I love the most about the ornament is that it is fabric and light weight. I don't have to worry about those horrible tree accidents, where the tree falls over, and my favorite ornaments break (like in past years!!)
We love to decorate sugar cookies in all types of holiday themes with little candies and sprinkles. Then, we set a few out for Santa on Christmas Eve. :)
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we sit around on christmas eve and talk about the year and have hot chocolate and cookies then open one gift
ReplyDeleteMy whole family, borthers, parents and neices and nephews all spend the night on Christmas Eve. We have never gone a single year without us all waking up to do present in the morning!
ReplyDeleteWe hold hands around the Christmas tree and sing songs before opening our presents.
ReplyDeletewe have dinner every christmas eve so that we can all stay home in the next day
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We bake Xmas cookies for santa
ReplyDeleteWe go out and look at the neighborhood lights on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteWe bake Christmas cookies together and give them to people we love/care about
ReplyDeletewe decorate the house. inside and out. bake fruitcake and christmas cookies for friends and neighbors as a family all 30 of us the day after thanksgiving
ReplyDeleteWe always make cheese fondue on CHristmas Eve and watch movies and eat it. I love it!
ReplyDeletewe have cinnamon buns in the morning
ReplyDeleteWe decorate the Saturday after thanksgiving every year.
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We put our tree up on the weekend after thanksgiving and my grand children decorate it.
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We make homemade gingerbread houses.
ReplyDeleteWe make cookies and candy.
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We do home-made chicken soup on Christmas Eve!!
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Favorite tradition: Giving the boys new jammies to open on Christmas Eve. They get them EVERY year and it always means they will have new matching pjs for Christmas morning pictures. (not match each other, but their own match)
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We decorate the tree as a family.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and i wear matching pajamas on Christmas Day. chefl@swbell.net
ReplyDeleteWe bake lots of goodies.
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We always open our presents on Christmas Eve. We have did that ever since I was a kid. Then on Christmas Day we goto my grandparents house.
ReplyDeletewhen we were kid we got up at 6 am and open the gift in the stocking
ReplyDeleteand then wait till my dad and mom got up now i just open the one form frinds and pen pal i trade with
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Making Christmas candy with my Grandma LAV is my fave tradition. unfortunately for the past 4 years she has been wheelchair bound so I have just been making it by myself but at her house still. I miss it very much.
ReplyDeleteWe open presents on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteWe decorate cookies together every year.
ReplyDeleteI make as many diff. cookies as I can for all my friends.
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right after thanksgiving we all get together to put up the tree! I have 8 kids so it's a plan to make this happen LOL
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We start decorating after Thanksgiving and the first week in December we all get together and we start baking all our Christmas cookies.
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ReplyDeleteWe dont have a real tradition but on Christmas morning we always cook breakfast and we cook every ones favorite food.
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One of our Christmas tradition is we open one present each on Christmas eve :)
My sister gives us all new pajamas on Christmas Eve.
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ReplyDeleteMy girls and I always bake cookies for santa
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We get together with my sister (who raised me) and bake pies with my kids for dinner
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We open our gifts on Christmas Eve. It is a tradition started by my mom and dad when my dad was a farmer. Cheryl cjabdelnour@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteWe open 3 gifts Christmas eve. One is always a new (freshly laundered!) pj's to sleep in that night and a Christmas book to read. Each day in December we open up a new book (the last one leading up to Christmas is the Christmas Eve Christmas book. The third gift is any gift under the tree we want to open.
ReplyDeleteWe open family gifts on Christmas Eve and Santa gifts on Christmas Day that way it breaks everything up and gives us a chance to kinda sleep in on Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteWe go to my mothers that's about it we are not very big on traditions unless you want to count that there will be at least one fight or disagreement (
ReplyDeleteAll the women on my mothers side of the family get together about 2 weeks before Christmas and we make cookies from my great grandmothers recipe book :)Last year my grandmother had them scanned and bound into a gorgeous book all in great-grandmas handwriting. Brings tears to my eyes when I see it :)
ReplyDeleteWe go to my parents house for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteMy mom, my sister and I always decorate the tree together, usually right before Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteWe decorate the tree as a family and hang up all the ornaments that we have collected through the years. We usually always add a few more ornaments every year too. This past year, I was finally able to have the courage and strength to buy one for the dd we lost 3 years ago.
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I love to wake up early and enjoy time with the christmas lights on with a good cup of coffee.. very peaceful and magical
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I sort a blogged about this giveaway since I am participating?
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Our tradition is opening one gift on Christmas Eve
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Opening our presents on Christmas Eve
ReplyDeleteI usually go to my aunt's house for a traditional Christmas Eve meal.
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We always spend christmas eve together and open one gift...new pajamas. At thanksgiving we picked names of who's we would buy! sometimes its really really funny
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We just started the elf on the shelf last year.
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Every year I buy my daughter an ornament for the tree so when she finally moves out she will have enough for her own tree
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As soon as Thanksgiving is over, my kids start begging for me to start the Christmas baking! We have certain favorite recipes - like our secret recipe Snot Fingers (Pistachio Cream Cheese Fingers) - that I HAVE to make every year, and my kids never let me forget!
ReplyDeletewe open Christmas jammies from grandma on Christmas eve
ReplyDeletewe always open one gift on christmas eve
ReplyDeletedriving around on Christmas Eve looking at decorations. We did it as kids to help us fall asleep, so when my girls were born we started the same tradition.
ReplyDeletewe string popcorn on our tree
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I have a very large extended family. Every year we have a Yankee Swap the Saturday before Christmas. It becomes an all day event, and everyone goes home with sore tummy from laughing so hard all day. Outstanding fun!
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My daughter gets some kind of advent calendar each year.
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We open presents really early on Christmas Day and then go to my Mom's where all the extended family is and open more presents there!
ReplyDeleteWe always put a yellow light at the top of the tree for Santa Mouse.
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas and have passed this love to my family. Our decorations go up right after Halloween (if it were up to me they would never come down!) My favorite tradition is driving around counting houses with Christmas lights one side of the car against the other, as an adult and a driver I now realize why my dad always won!
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ReplyDeleteThe Christmas store at Downtown Disney is my favorite store there. I have a friend that works there (actually, it's my middle school boyfriend's Mom) and she's a calligrapher. I also get ornaments there every year for Christmas. They are just so cute and well made.
The only tradition we have is lots of holiday baking.
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We make a candle with 25 evenly spaced dots and we burn the candle while reading Scriptures about Christ life and The last night we read Luke Chapter 2 which is the birth story of Christ
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Baking cookies with the kids - Thanks!
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My family usually makes a gingerbread house a few days before Christmas. tylerpants(at)gmail.com
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