My holiday traditions

Holiday Traditions..... Hmmm.
I have many of these. My favorite holiday tradition is when my mom, step dad, and my sisters and step-brothers go out to some tree farm around Rainer or Goble and we pick out our tree. Every year my little (step) brother Jaysn always tastes the tree. He sticks a branch in his mouth and tries to bite it. Thats how he tells if the tree is good or not. Since there is 6 kids and two adults we each take turns to pick out the tree, it starts with the youngest and then goes to the oldest of the house.

Another one of our traditions is decorating the tree as a family. We pick a night that all of us are going to be home and then we record us decorating it. Its not always fun being recorded but oh well, we can always have memories to look back on.

Every year we go christmas caroling with my church. We all meet at the church and the get some hot chocolate and eat a doughnut and then go around town to various old folks homes and sing up and down the hallways. Then we go back to the church get some more hot chocolate and say good night to everyone and go home and sleep. I always hated christmas caroling cause of the singin but then I noticed how much all the old people liked it and I really appreciated singing for them.

One of the other holiday traditions that we do is every christmas eve we go to The Christain Church and have a christmas eve service. Its nice and relaxing to go there before and amazing night when SANTA CLAUS comes and puts presents under or tree and fills our stockings full of fun cool things. Also on christmas eve we read The Night Before Christmas and each get to open one present of our choice and then go to bed. Every year we take turns on reading the book.

Last tradition but not least is that n christmas mornig we have to usually sleep in till eight and then we all get up, we CANNOT go down stairs and we read the Christmas story from the bible, (which seems like it takes forever) then skip breafast and go and open pressents!!

We put up lights every year. My step dad is a little on the competitive side and every year he has to go and buy at least three new boxes of lights or new blow up things and raindeer and all that fun stuff. He gets the ideas from driving around and looking at all the christmas lights that are set up around town. Its really quite funny when he gets it the mood and DECKS out the whole inside and outside of the house.

All in all I have a very good christmas and its a fun time to be with family and enjoy the memories.