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When I was young and living with my parents, we would open our presents on Christmas Eve because we always went to Las Vegas for Christmas. Once, we opened my parents gifts to us, we'd all pack into the car to deliver my 2 other aunts and their kids presents. When we got to their house, we'd open our gifts from them there while they opened ours. One year (or two), everyone took all their presents to my favorite aunt's house and opened them all together. She has the biggest and fullest tree full with decor. I love her tree!

The whole family goes to church together and then back to my parent's house. We have a ton of appetizers for dinner. The kids change into their pj's. Then all the ladies do the same, we get matching ones each year. Open presents and then sit around and play with teh kids toys and talk. It is my favorite night of the year. I love it more then Christmas morning. Christmas morning after we do presents with just parents and siblings, we have cheese danish and breakfast casserole. I love that breakfast!!

Our family gets together christmas eve. We usually start off by attenting Mass then we head over to a family members house. We eat Tamales and Pozole and just sit around and talk. We let the kids open some gifts at midnight. We usually get together on Christmas day and eat left overs.

We are really cornballs for Christmas. Growing up the whole season was a big deal. We'd make a day of going out to cut down our tree. We always had the fun advent calendars and the religious advent candles. My brother and I had our own mini artificial trees in our rooms we could decorate however we wanted. I had a candy theme On Christmas Eve we would eat a big fish/pasta dinner and then go to midnight mass. Afterward we'd read Christmas books and set out cookies and carrots for Santa and the reindeer. My dad told us Santa liked Brandy with his cookies so we started that when we were older LOL. Then we said a family prayer and went to bed! Christmas morning we always did presents first, then breakfast and stockings. The scary thing is we still do most all of these things and my husband and I are close to 30 and my bro is 25, haha. My husband loves it because his family didn't really have too many traditions.

As kids we were always allowed to open one present on Christmas Eve which were always new pajamas.

For Christmas eve dinner my mom always makes a huge spread of appetizer type stuff like bacon wrapped dates, meatballs, chicken wings, etc and we play family games like Cranium.

Christmas morning my mom makes poppyseed rolls which are so, so good so we all eat those and look through our stockings (even though we are all in our 30's, she still pretends Santa comes so she'll put powder foot prints on the rug and we get stockings and santa gifts)

There doesn't seem to be any traditions on my husband's side so it always makes me a little sad on the years we visit his family.