I haven't posted in quite a while, and what better way to try to get back into the groove than a giveaway.
Sew Mama Sew is hosting their annual Giveaway Day, which actually runs from the 12th through the 16th, at 5pm PST. Since there are so many blogs participating, it gives you time to check out as many as possible and sign up to (hopefully) win great stuff. Winners will be chosen by random number generator, and notified by email (please make sure yours is available) by 12/18, and this post will be updated with the winners name. We will ship anywhere in the world.
Up for grabs here are ten (10) fat quarters from "The Woodlands" collection from Khristian A. Howell for Anthology fabrics. Khristian is a great designer and has designed other collections for Anthology as well. We carry some of her lines, including The Woodlands in our shop. Just leave one (1) comment telling me your favorite family tradition for the holidays. We're looking to find ways to create memories with the boy.
And just in case you just have to have these fabrics, or anything else we carry, we are offering 20% off your fabric purchase in our shop through Saturday, 12/17/2011. Just use coupon code SMS20 at checkout.
I'm going to go check out some of the other posts! Thanks for stopping by! Happy Holidays!
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We love making dozens of gingerbread cookies and then sitting and decorating them for hours, just chatting and enjoying life and eating sprinkles!
Great giveaway, that fabric is so cute!
We don't do much in the way of traditions, except for a handmade advent calendar that I ade for the kids. Each pocket is filled with a little treat (not always food). So much fun!!!
After opening presents & Christmas lunch, we play board games & charades into the evening. Some naps on the sofa may or may not happen but generally a day of family fun, always precious. Thanks for a lovely giveaway.
My favorite family tradition is decorating cut out cookies around the dining room table.
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I love roasting chestnuts on Christmas Eve. It started as a simple tradition in my family and has become one of those things that makes it really feel like Christmas for me. Thanks for the chance to win!
My most treasured family holiday tradition is having Christmas dinner with the whole family on Christmas Eve. We gather at my parents house in the morning, loll about all day just enjoying our time together and then have a big dinner in the evening. After we've all had our fill, we open our presents and head back home with a happy glow and our tummies full of yummy food. :)
Adding a new decoration to each child's ornament collection - it's always a thrill for them to open their special boxes and see what they got at each age.
My favorite family tradition is going to church with my grown up sons, and Christmas dinner as a family. Great giveaway.
My mom has a nice tradition, every year she will make some christmas tree ornaments using some of my nephews outgrown clothes.
We like to take a walk/drive around the neighbourhood and check out the holiday lights.
Those look lovely!! We love reading Christmas stories in the lead up to Christmas - I have a little collection of books saved for the season... I also give my little one a new pair of PJs on Christmas night - which is a good way to stop those feelings of anti-climax at the end of the day (though she is still too little to really notice anyway!)
From my childhood the best part was decorating the *real* Christmas tree. The smell still carries a lot of nostalgia for me.
We have bacon sandwiches and bucks fizz on christmas morning (orange juice as kids!). When we were little we'd always get a stocking in our room and a book - usually a christmas Annual - we weren't allowed to wake my parents before 6 so we'd open our stockings together (me and my brother) and read our annuals until 6 when we could get our other presents and our bacon sarnies!
Pressies at the end of the bed for morning! Gives the kids a great start to the day and grown ups a few more mins of peace!:)
Thanks for the lovely giveaway. My favorite Christmas tradition is breakfast in bed, although I do not think your son would appreciate you passing that tradition on to him. ;0) Our oldest daughter decided on here 6th Christmas to bring us breakfast in bed and she has talked the younger kids into it every year since then. It is a sweet time together. I love my kiddos!
We love to make gingerbread houses together. happy holidays
I used to love decorating cookies with my mom. I am sure they were just beautiful!
we trim the tree together as a family
THanks for a great giveaway. Our favorite tradition is opening one gift on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas.
My favorite family tradition is making ornaments together. My boys like baking & painting the salt dough ones - - which was also a favorite Christmas activity of mine when I was their age! :)
Thanks for the chance!
My favorite Christmas tradition is that my family has a Christmas diner and everyone is responsible for one course or one dish. It so much fun to see what everyone makes!
We are still in the process of making traditions. We don't do a tree, so I was thinking of hiding some of their presents!
brooke at richardchurch dot com
I love taking the kids to pick out their ornaments for the year.
Choosing the tree, and buying one new ornament a year... thats my favourite holiday tradition! THanks for the awesome giveaway!
I'm looking for traditions, too. I started small - this year we are using an advent calendar. And going to church for Christmas Eve service. And I may try to make a Fruit Loop garland, that sounds like fun with my bunch of kiddos. There are a lot of ideas out there, but its best to start small if you plan on continuing - you won't set yourself up for failure, and the kids will still have fun. Good luck!
my favourite family tradition is waking the kids up and watching their joy as they open their gifts.
We go and see The Nutcracker every year.
Thanks for the opportunity! I love our tradition of Christmas Eve dinner with the whole family :)
I love going to church on Christmas Day!
we give our kids new jammies on christmas eve, and then spend all christmas day in them, relaxing and playing with our new toys. gooberific @ yahoo.com
Cookies cookies cookies. I love Christmas cookies.
lovely fabrics
Elf on the Shelf..the kids are loving the hunt for the elf and so many fun things you can do with him. Problem is..remembering to hide him every night.
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we don't put ANY presents under the tree until christmas morning - it's so fun to watch the kids - it's so magical! :) fabulous giveaway!
bess
i don't really do traditions, but i do love to eat lots of sweet treats over the holidays. :-)
WE love making all sorts of goodies dipped in chocolate!
My favorite tradition is taking a ride around town to see all the lights. I love the holiday lights.
My mother is Cuban, so we celebrate Noche Buena. I love it.
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That is such cute fabric! We love going to see the zoo lights before Christmas, there are millions and it really is a magical wonderland!! Puts you in the mood for sure.
When I was still at home, my mom and I used to each "sneak" a present and open one before Christmas. It was always a special time!
Oh wow - what a great slection of fabrics. Thank you for the chance to win it :)
My favourite festive family tradition (phew - that's a lot of f's) growing up was singing carols so that Santa knew which house was ours. So 2-3 carols later he would rock up with a ho-ho-ho and that magic bag :) My mom would also take us outside later when it is dark (we celebrate on the eve of the 24th) and then she would show us "rudolf's red nose" - which was actually just satellites in the sky. Keep the magic alive and "realisitc" and your boy will have great memories to look back onto. Good luck :)
Thank you for a great giveaway.
Marilize
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My favorite tradition is homemade gifts and decorations. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Great giveaway--thanks for the chance! We always have pizza for Christmas Eve dinner. :)
We always have crab on Christmas Eve with friends that are very important but who we don't spend Christmas with. Then, after dinner we each open one present each!
We open books for Advent. Each night we unwrap a book and read it with our kids by the fire. it is really nice! Thanks for the great giveaway, those fabrics are lovely.
We go to a carol service a week before Christmas. That is the start of Christmas for me!
My mom made everyone an individual stocking (my sister's is pink and green, my Dad's is gold, etc.), and she hung an ornament that symbolizes the person on it (mine is a music note with a bell inside), and we open those on Christmas morning before anything under the tree. There's always a movie inside everyone's stocking, and we pick one and watch it in our pjs together.
We love singing songs around the Christmas tree with only the tree lights on.
One of our favorite traditions is new jammies for all on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas!
Cookie decorating. My kids are adults and on their own, but when they come for Christmas we still decorate cookies. Thanks!
We always read the birth of Jesus story before we open presents.
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stockings are my fav tradition.
I love making Christmas cookies as a family.
I love decorating the tree and then enjoying a cup of cocoa while admiring its sparkle. sewvery(at)gmail(dot)com
We always go for dinner the first Christmas day together in a real French auberge
I started making gingerbread houses with my children when they are small. It's now a tradition the entire family enjoys.
We eat tamales for Xmas Eve. Thanks for the giveaway!
A new tradition that we have been making is to go caroling together.
We are just starting to develop new traditions with my kids (two-year-old twins); my favorite so far is taking them to see the lights at one of the parks near our house.
Day after thanksgiving was always house decorating day..I miss it!
I love Christmas Eve dinner with all of my family.
i love reading a christmas book on christmas eve
We each open one gift (a new pair of holiday pjs) on Christmas Eve - then we wear them all day long on Christmas Day! It makes for a very cozy (and comfy) holiday! Even relatives who join us for Christmas dinner wear their pjs! It's fun!
Best,
Michelle
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thank you for the chance to win. we each take a turn opening one gift. it takes a while but it is fun
we have a lot of kids and grandkids, so our tradition is getting together and having the little ones open their presents.
We travel to visit family. Thank you for the fabric giveaway.
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Next year will be our first Christmas with a child. Over teh past 8 years of marriage we have tried out all sorts of things to make our own traditions! I would like to get new pj's every Christmas day, put on some Christmas music, eat a real breakfast and just relax with some coffee. We read the Christmas story every year already.
I loved to put cookies for santa and Carrots for the raindeer! Thanks for the chance to win!!
A
Reading "Jotham's Journey" by advent candle/ christmas tree lights outloud.
I love baking cookies and then eating them before they have chance to cool! Not very festive but it is lovely and warm :)
Ever year, we buy a new puzzle to put on the coffee table, and then everyone works on the puzzle throughout December. It makes for some great quality time.
We have a Christmas Eve tradition of each family member reciting a poem. Doesn't matter how young or old - Christmas poems must be done!
We always watch the same movie on Christmas Eve - "the Muppet Christmas Carol." I think we know all the words by now! Thanks for the chance!
My favorite Christmas tradition is to have breakfast at my parent's house Christmas morning with my family.
We love advent calendars with whatever treats you want to fill them with. Thanks!
Beautiful fabric! Our favorite family tradition is going to look at lights.
I always loved making sugar cookies with my mom and decorating them with homeade powdered sugar and butter frosting. We'd put globs of frosting in little bowls and add a few drops of food color and deocrate away.
love this line!
our fave is our annual holiday lights drive:)
beckymac1 at hotmail dot com
Eating stollen for breakfast Christmas morning. It has been that way my whole life and I love it!
Thanks!
We like to light advent candles - so cheery and warm!
Our favorite tradition is baking cookies together.
My favorite tradition is cutting down our tree every year with my dad.
I always read "The Night Before Christmas" at bedtime on Christmas Eve, to our girls. It was a fun way to wind the day down and get their little butts into bed. LOL!
love watching It's a Wonderful Life!!!
Making xmas cookies with the kids is great and also decorating an ornament for the tree!
WE LOVE TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS BY READING THE CHRISTMAS STORY FROM ST.LUKE ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND THEN OPEN ONE GIFT; SAVING OUR OTHER GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS MORN! SHARING DOUGHNUTS+COCOA OR COFFEE WITH FAMILY+FRIENDS IS THE BEST ♥
My favorite tradition is racing home from the candlelight service to light our advent wreath with the flame from our church's Christ candle. Whoever gets there first gets to light the candle.
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we always drive around looking at christmas lights!
Every year my son & I go together to pick out a Nutcracker. Each year we create apecial story Christmas eve about the Nutcrackers in his collection. This year is year 17 and his collection has grown into an Army of Nutcrackers...We shall see what story shall enfold this year!
I love all of the baking and cooking together as a family to give to neighbors and friends
A walk on Christmas Eve, followed by making a snowman and hot chocolate! :)
We have started ornament collections for each child. One gets added every year, some have a tie in to an event from the past year some are just cute. We all enjoy remembering why and when an ornament was added as we decorate the tree. Once the kids have their own homes their ornamanets will decorate that tree. Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
Favorite tradition is putting up the tree.
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree!
We play "Christmas hunt" all during the season. Everyone looks out their side of the car while driving and counts how many houses with Christmas decorations they see on their side. At the end of the ride, the side that saw the most decorations wins. It also works with "Halloween Hunt" et. al.
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We like to do a big jigsaw puzzle over the holiday season. It gets its own table out of the way, and it's a nice way to spend a few quiet moments at a busy time of year.
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Try family Christmas cookie baking! It is my favorite tradition. Not only do you get to bond, but you get to taste test cookies! You just can't go wrong.
We like to do stockings well. Lots of little special gifts from each other. Thanks for being a part of giveaway day. erincode-at-metzlers-dot-org
I wrap 24 books and our family opens one book a night to count down to christmas pluse have more cuddle time with our babies
Oh, you evil thing, you! Before I even entered your giveaway, I was over at your shop buying fabric. Sigh. My husband thanks for the coupon, though.
We like to give my sister in law a puzzle for Christmas, and then we all sit around and work on it together. Grownups, that is. I also like to make everyone a new pillowcase for Christmas Eve. Can't do pjs for everyone, but pillowcases are fun to personalize and one size fits all!
our favorite holiday tradition is making caramel corn together--tell me if you'd like the recipe!
My fave tradition is driving around to look at Christmas lights and watching Christmas movies.
I like going to the movies with my family on Christmas Day.
Decorate cutout cookies!
I love baking cookies with the entire family - everyone wear aprons, too. Thanks for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
I love decorating Gingerbread Boys with my mom and my son. Thanks for the chance to win - I love the fabric you chose!
Oh my gosh it is my baby's first Christmas and have been wanting to create some new traditions .. . I am going to be reading through all of these!!
I love that my Dad used to always read us the Polar Express on Christmas Eve
Hello! We celebrate Christmas, but we also celebrate Winter Solstice after watching the Little Bear episode where he celebrated with his friends (Little Bear was my most favorite and enjoyable of all my three boys' cartoon phases). We put out extra seed and peanuts, string fruit loops and put peanut butter/seed on 1/2 bagels. When they were little they believed in the "magic" as most of the food was gone by morning!!! Thanks for a GREAT giveaway, I am stopping at your shop next.
Oh I love the fabrics!
Our tradition is food-making. i mean making lots of foods :)
thanks for the chance to win.
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Dressing the christmas tree the EXACT same way every year, making all the same dishes and just spending time with all of my family around one table :)
We always let the kids wake us early and open their Santa stockings on the bed with us.
I love to bake mince pies and gingerbread men with my three little boys.
I love opening the presents with my boys
Awesome prize! Thank you!
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We like to write thank you cards together after christmas.
Making cookies - sugar and gingerbread, is my favorite thing! Thanks for the chance to win! ryansarahn at gmail dot com.
I love those fabrics!! I enjoy leaving carrots and water in the backyard for the reindeer to 'eat and drink'.
We always watch xmas movies each night ( starting three days) before xmas...
thanks for a chance in your giveaway
I love to spend Christmas Eve with my parents, we usually have a bbq and relaxing ale, it's the calm before the storm!
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.
Our tradition is to spend the whole day at my grandmas house. Eating, singing and more eating ;)
Susanne
I love decorating the tree with everyone
When we go to bed, we leave a cup of coffee for Santa Claus and when we wake up in the morning the cup is empty... so magical
We get egg nog shakes and drive around looking at the pretty lights in the neighborhoods.
simply getting together with family is my favorite tradition.
You really can't go wrong with baking cut-out cookies and frosting them. Thanks for the chance to win such pretty fabrics!
We make one new ornament together every year. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for christmas breakfast.
We love making Christmas cookies, and this year my two-and-a-half-year-old was actually able to help-he did a great job of cutting shapes out of gingerbread and had a blast pouring sprinkles on (what worked best was put a small amount in a bowl and let him sprinkle with his fingers...otherwise he wanted to pour the whole shaker out!)
My favorite family tradition is when I get to see both sides of my family on Christmas day!
Thanks for the giveaway! My favorite family tradition is to sing carols with my family after dinner!
We like to light the advent candles every night during dinner.
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Oh wow! I love this! And one of my girls loves that turquoise/aqua color. I could make her something great! My favorite holiday tradition is cutting a live Christmas tree.
My favorite thing about the holidays is playing board games with my family.
I love making gingerbread houses!
We always open one present on Christmas Eve and then save the rest for Christmas morning :)
Oh my goodness those fabrics are adorable! My tradition I love involves food... we make sausage swirls, and it's not Christmas without those on the table!
The girls are allowed to unwrap one present Christmas Eve, which is a new pair of pajamas. Thanks for the giveaway!
We started having birthday cake on Christmas day a few years ago after my son asked why we don't have birthday cake for Jesus' birthday. It's a nice reminder that Christmas isn't about Santa and presents.
We like to drive around and look at christmas lights on Christmas Eve. My kids love this!
Ours is a little strange holiday tradition. But we always get a super difficult Christmas jigsaw puzzle. We start it on Christmas Even evening and try to stay up late enough to finish the entire thing. Usually we end up falling asleep around 2 AM, but we make sure to piece it together on the table, so we have to get it done before we eat a Christmas feast hehehe
I love the new elf tradition
we enjoy beeing together, eat a delicius dinner, visiting the whole familie on the 12.26.
Thanks!
We always love to bundle up and hike the neighborhoods to look at the lights up close, its inexpensive and healthy...until you get to the ordering pizza part ; )
I love making gifts for my family.
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We drive to the nearby neighborhoods that put out luminaries on Christmas Eve. It is so peaceful.
I love that fabric! We started a baking day when my daughter was little. It's all we do that day, she would help and then do most of the decorating. Lots of mess and laughter. We just did it yesterday and she came home for it. Means the world to me. Thanks.
Visiting my parents and decorating the tree together!
I always love decorating the tree while listening to Handel's Messiah.
We love to cut down a Christmas tree! Thanks for the giveaway! Amy @ gasudimack(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
My favorite family tradition is making cookies and pies! Love to fill the house up with the smell of baked goods :)
Eating a sweet yeast snowman bread on Christmas morning.
I'm from holland, but our familie has no christmas traditions. But we make 'knieperties' (thin crispie cookies) for new years eve.
sledding
When we were kids, we were allowed to open one present from our stockings before the adults got up...that gave them a few more minutes of sleep! cried2dream(at)gmail.com
I love opening up Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve while eating my mother's cranberry fudge. Thank you for the lovely giveaway.
We will have an 'open house' where all the family & friends come & have a feast with all the traditional food !!!
Opening one gift on Christmas eve, something they could enjoy.
My boys always liked decorating gingerbread people. Of course, as they got older, the gingerbread men got a little gruesome!
I love making the kids hunt for the pickle in the tree for an extra treat!
We get together on Christmas Eve to eat waffles and have a family gift exchange. Thanks for the opportunity.
As a child and now with my children, we have a treasure hunt (complete with handmade clues) that takes each person from place to place (sometimes outside too) and at the end is a small gift. We do this on Christmas Eve.
We love to open presents together. The kids are allowed to open one present only when they first get up, without having to wait for everyone.
We go sledding Christmas Eve Day. We have a rustic cabin close to home and we go up, sled, have hot chocolate and chili and come home. It's a wonderful interlude away from the crazyness of Christmas Eve and we are all refreshed and ready to get back into holidaying. Thanks for the giveaway.
We read the story of Jesus birth from the Bible together on Christmas morning. :) thanks for the chance to win!
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I love making sweets with my mother :D
Thanks for the chance!
My favorite tradition is cutting down our tree each year!
I have no idea how these 2 things became family traditions but one was that every Christmas the boys each got a bag of pastachio nuts and it was always the first gift they opened I think some years eating them while others were opening gifts was the only thing that kept peace till another gift for one of them was draged out from under the tree. The other was that we all decorate the tree together on Christmas eve and then watch movies together for the rest of the night well at least till the little guys fell asleep and could be toted off to bed so Santa could come! Adorable fabric your giving away thanks for the chance to win! Enjoy your holiday
this is great!
one of our traditions is to make jam and candy for all of our friends, It's always alot of fun, and a great way to spend *alot* of time together!
I love holiday foods, and I love the tradition of making them only this time of year it makes some treats extra special to have only once a year.
Our family ends the evening playing card games.
We like to sing carols by the tree at night.
My favorit is to gather with the whole family.
I'm seriously in love with those acorns. Too stinking cute.
Well it's more of an only me and my dad tradition. But I always help him make the turkey and ham. It's basically an all day event because we only have 1 oven. But i absolutely love it and look forward to it every year.
We have a movie marathon during the holidays at home when it rains...
I like having an orange at the bottom of our stockings. Every year santa leaves it for us.
My favorite is going to churc and Christmas familx lunch with all my brothers and cousins.
We are just making new Christmas traditions... matching homemade Christmas pj's and special stories on Christmas eve.
How about making ornaments with photos in it? I bought clear platic baubles for pictures so we can make one each year for my baby niece.
My favorite tradition is lighting our advent every week for the four weeks before Christmas. Thank you for the giveaway!
Thanks for offering such a terrific giveaway!
For the limited time that my family is together for the holidays, we each nominate a board game that we like to play and we make a point to try to play a different game together every night. It's a nice way to spend time together during a very busy time of year!
Happy Holidays!
Decorating the tree and the house with my children is a tradition we love. And we always do it on December 1st, every year.
Thanks for the chance, it's a gorgeous collection!
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my fave family tradition is spending to time with family christmas eve eating visiting and wearing the kids out so we can sleep
My current favorite Christmas tradition is having the Elf on the Shelf visit our home each year. Our elf, Elwood, delights in making our children smile every morning. It's been fun watching them run around the house looking for him every day. :)
We have an advent wreathe with candles in the time leading up to Christmas... it's a lovely way to anticipate Christmas and reflect on it's meaning.
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We always do a family outting - snowshoe, or go see a movie or all the holiday lights! fun and we vote on what to do!
Karaoke with my family!
Thanks for the generous giveaway and a chance to win!
Watching White Christmas on Christmas Eve with my parents and my family. Our dinner is hors d'oeuvres. Simple and fun!
We love to make gingerbread houses! Thanks for the chance!
Favorite Christmas tradition is enjoying traditional Christmas music - caroling, a program at church or school, a program on tv, or our own recorded music.
We like to turn off the lights in the house, light candles, and sing carols in the room with the lit-up Christmas tree.
Christmas just isn't Christmas if I don't give each of my kids a book. It gets more challenging now that they're adults and my son's main interests lie less in fiction than in math and economics ... but still ... a book for Christmas is a must.
Sleeping in on Christmas day
We always go see all the lights & decorations on Candy Cane Lane and my boys are always so excited about seeing everything. Thanks for a chance to win! :)
Love driving around listening to Christmas music and checking out all the light displays. Also, getting to open one present each on Christmas Eve.
Every year we put tangerines in the toe of our Christmas stockings. This has been a tradition in our family for at least 3 generations. Thanks for the opportunity to enter your great giveaway!
My favorite Christmas tradition is one we started with our daughters. We have a really large extended family who all open our gifts on Christmas Eve (about 30 people and growing - addition of kids). My little family of 4 (DH, 2DD's and myself) have a sleepover in Mommy & Daddy's room and open the gifts that we have for each other on Christmas morning. It's so intimate and the girls have a blast.
My favorite tradition is that on Christmas Day, my family drives to Point Blancas (I think that's what it's called) to see the elephant seals. They come to shore to give birth and by Christmas there are a lot of pups!
Thanks so much for a wonderful giveaway!
We order in Chinese takeout on christmas eve and watch the christmas story :) we do the traditional stuff on christmas day, but christmas eve is the fun relaxing casual dinner
I always loved making english toffee with my mom!
What a great giveaway. Thanks for participating. My favorite tradition is church on Christmas Eve (as well as the rest of the year). Baking together is fun too.
My favorite tradition is our Jesse Tree
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