Cheyanne Shingle: My favorite holiday traditions start with spending time with my family! My favorite thing we do on Christmas morning is open our presents. As soon as we wake up we come running down the stairs. We wake up my mom and dad. Then we finally start ripping open our gifts! It is a lot of fun! I can’t wait!
Ben Feight: In my house we start Christmas early. The day after Thanksgiving we go out to a big farm and pick out the biggest Christmas tree. My daddy will cut it down and we will take it home with our car. When we get home we take the tree in the house and start to decorate it. My daddy will put all the lights on the tree. Then me, my brother Luke and Mommy will put the balls and bows on it. The tree always looks fancy! On Christmas Eve we will see my Uncle Jim, Grandma and Grandpa Feight. They bring lots of presents for me. Christmas morning we wake up real early and sneak downstairs to see what Santa brought us. Santa almost always gets me everything on my list!! After presents we will go see my Aunt Krista and Grandpa Ken. We will also have dinner with my mommy’s grandma and grandpa. It’s always a fun time of year!
Charlie Jozefowski: I have a lot of traditions that I do to get ready for Christmas. Every year we go and pick out a Christmas tree. We take it home and put on the decorations. I get to put on the colorful lights and the ornaments. When we are finished decorating my dad puts the star on the top. We put lights up on the outside of our house and on the railings. I get to put the candy cane decorations in the grass. My mom and I like to make peanut butter cookies for the holidays. On Christmas day I run downstairs and open up my presents. I am hoping that I get a hockey net this year. For dinner we always go to my grandparents’ house. We eat turkey and pie for dessert. After visiting my grandparents I like to go home and play with all of my new toys before I have to go to bed.
Angelina Laire: I think of the Christmas holiday as spending time together with my whole family. On Christmas Eve my family and I go to my Uncle Dave and Aubree’s house. Then the rest of my relatives join us. We have a lot of fun together! I play with my cousins, we play princess and we even have a tea party. After that, we eat a big seafood dinner together. The food is so good my belly gets stuffed. Everybody helps to clean up the dirty dishes. Then I play with Aubree’s Lego friends. When it starts to get dark we know it almost time for dessert. The whole family sits down for dessert. My family has pies and holiday cookies, my favorite is coconut custard! Last we play games, and then drive home. The next morning is Christmas and I can’t wait to see what Santa left for me!
Brennan Gresh: I wake Mom and Dad up. We go to Dunkin Donuts for hot chocolate. When we get home I open my presents. I also love to open the stockings. Then we eat breakfast, and drive to Mom-Mom’s. I get to open more presents there and we eat lunch. Then we go home so I can play with all my new toys!
Carly Haring: My favorite part of Christmas is spending time with my family! As a family we all work together getting ready for Christmas Day. I love making cookies with my family because it is fun. I love decorating the house. We put up stockings with letters B, C, K, and G on the outside of them. Then we get the Christmas tree and I get to help to choose the tree! After we decorate the tree, we eat dinner. We play Life and UNO STACKO! At the end of the day we get together with family and have dessert. I love Christmas!
Casey Shaak: Listening to Christmas music reminds me of favorite holiday tradition. My mom and I make chocolate chip cookies on Christmas Eve for Santa. My mom makes the dough. I roll the rolling pin over the dough. I use a round cookie cutter to make the shapes. After we bake the cookies, we eat 3 cookies each. We put all the rest out for Santa with milk and we go to bed. He eats some of them and my dad eats the rest.
CJ Patterson: I love the smell of cookies baking in the oven! That is my favorite holiday tradition. Before Christmas day comes my mom and sister always help me make cookies. We always make cookies for Santa. We make chocolate chip cookies. They are my sister’s favorite cookie and mine. My sister and Mom mixes the batter, but I get to crack the eggs that go into the batter. Then my mom puts the cookie dough on the cookie sheet and puts them in the oven. When it is Christmas Eve I get to pour the milk into a glass and put the cookies on a plate for Santa. I love the smell of cookies baking in the oven!
Corbin Moran: I always look forward to hanging up are Christmas ornaments with my family. We usually put our tree up the first week of December. My dad’s job is to put on the lights. I always get to put the first ornament on are BIG Christmas tree. My favorite ornament has a picture of my dog, Mandy. My dad’s favorite is a Dallas Cowboys ornament. My mom and my big sister, Tori also help to decorate the tree. It takes us about an hour or more to decorate our tree because it is so BIG. We have so much fun! That’s why it’s my favorite family tradition.
Ethan Brown: Christmas is when we celebrate my favorite holiday tradition. We wake up early in the morning and run down the stairs to the Christmas tree. I open my presents! After that we leave the room and my mom hides the pickle in the tree. We are not supposed to peek when she is hiding it. Next we all come back into the room and we try to be the first one to find the pickle. The person who finds it gets a treat. Then we go to my Nana’s house and we play board games. Finally we eat a special Christmas dinner. That is what makes my Christmas special!
Gerrell Rollins: Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? I do, because Christmas is Jesus’ birthday. My favorite holiday tradition is making a gingerbread house with my family. Once the gingerbread house is put together, we decorate it with all types of candy. When it’s finished it looks really yummy! Opening Christmas gifts with my family is another one of my favorite Christmas traditions. I like opening gifts because my Mommy always gets me what I ask for. I also enjoy listening to Christmas music and watching Christmas movies with my family. These are the best holiday traditions for me.
Hannah Hamilton: My Favorite Christmas Tradition is finding the Christmas Pickle. I love when we put up our tree. After we get it my Daddy puts the lights on the tree, then we get to put all the ornaments on it, and one of us places the Angel on top. After decorating the tree we make cookies, and put them out for Santa Claus. We have to get ready for bed real quick. In the morning my Mommy, and Daddy hide the Pickle. I am always the lucky one who finds it. That is what makes Christmas special to me.
Jaydin Franklin: I love going to my GG and Pop-Pop’s house on Christmas morning! My mom and I get up early Christmas morning and head over to GG and Pop-Pop’s house. They don’t live real close by, so I don’t get to see them very often. It is so much fun because they have a Christmas party. All my cousins and aunts and uncles are there too. We get to spend the night and when we wake up on Christmas day we have a big family breakfast and get to spend the day sharing our gifts with all of our cousins. That is why going to GG and Pop-Pop’s house is special to me.
Lily Mutter: I love Christmas. It reminds me of my family tradition. We all go in the family room to watch TV . We eat dinner a good dinner. We go to Christmas village and see the beautiful lights. Then we go home and make cookies me and my brothers decorate the cookies. Then we get nice and cozy and watch a movie then we go to bed. When we wake up together my mom-mom makes a huge breakfast then we are so excite to open are presents. I will never forget this time.
Brooke Beard: My favorite family tradition is going to grandmothers and playing with baby Rose and baby Jack. We usually take a walk down the long path as a whole family and sometimes we find really cool stuff in the woods. Sometimes Grand mom stays back from the walk and makes lots of good food for us to eat when we get back. When Christmas day comes we get to give out presents and get to open some too.
Nathan Heimbach: My favorite holiday tradition starts on Christmas Eve at My gammy’s house. My dad and I spend the night at her house. I have so much fun when I spend the night there! I wake up early because so I am excited to see what Santa left me. I jump out of bed and take a shower. Then I have to wait for everyone to get up and meet at the Christmas tree. After that, we get to open presents. Then we get in the car and drive. I don’t get to see the other side of my family very much so I am very excited to drive to their house! When we get to Nee Nee and Pop Pop’s house I run and give them a hug! Then I spend the rest of the day there opening up presents and having fun with them.
Olivia Morgan: I will always remember my favorite family tradition. On Christmas Eve we sit by the warm fire, and I hang out with my sisters. Mom and Dad are busy cooking our dinner. Then they call us for dinner. Before we eat, we pray when we all sit down. We eat dinner and dessert. I love when we have coconut custard, it’s my favorite! We all go to the family room and play games. My mom, sisters and I make cookies. Danielle and I get to decorate cookies that’s my favorite part when we make cookies. After all the cookie making, we all go to church to watch the Christmas play. It is always a cool show to watch. When it is over we go home. We finally sit down and have hot chocolate and we watch a movie together and go to bed. I can’t wait for this year!
Peyton Schlegel: When I hear Christmas music it reminds me of my favorite holiday tradition, visiting my Aunt Lynn. It all starts when I go to my Aunt Lynn’s house. As soon as we get there I am a little shy, but then I loosen up and as soon as I do, I play with my cousins. Finally we eat. After we eat, we wait a while and then dig into dessert until we cannot move! Then it gets late so we have to go home and go to bed.
Sara Maher: When I hear Christmas songs it reminds me of Christmas. My favorite Christmas tradition is spending time with my family! First, we cook a big turkey dinner together. It is always so good. After eating are dinner, my family and I watch Christmas movies! My favorite Christmas movie is “The Grinch That Stole Christmas”. While watching the movies we laugh and relax! Then we eat dessert, my favorite dessert are cookies. I love the ones with the chocolate Hershey Kiss on top! Then we setup the cookies for Santa! Last we go to bed and pray! Next morning when we wake up it is Christmas morning! Christmas is a good time to be with your family! This is my story for Christmas!
Zoey Ormsby: This is my favorite Christmas day tradition! We get up early in the morning, we open presents then we eat a nice breakfast. Then Pop, Mom-mom, Aunt Becky and Uncle Richie come over. We have a nice dinner and then more of our family comes over so we can have dessert. That is my favorite Christmas day tradition!
