This post and giveaway is sponsored by Minted.com.

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Can you believe the holidays are right around the corner? Wahoo!  I’ve always been good about sending out holiday cards, but I really wanted to be the type of person who did photo cards. It’s so nice to open your mailbox and find a card filled with photos of your loved ones. They’re my favorite holiday cards to display, too.

 

Enter: Minted.com.  They have so many beautiful cards crafted by so many talented designers (check out the blurb below for some information on their crowdsourcing business model – pretty cool!).

 

Minted crowd-sources design and art from a global community of independent designers, then sell their best designs as fine products such as stationery, wall art, and décor for the home, holidays, and occasions. Minted was an early pioneer of crowdsourcing product design and has held open art and graphic design challenges monthly since 2008. All designers and artists are welcome to enter our open challenges. Designers collaborate on our community platform and provide peer critiques that improve both designers and designs over time. Consumers and designers curate Minted’s product assortment by voting on the entries to each challenge, ensuring that the best designers and designs are surfaced and represented on Minted. Minted produces and sells the winning designs, paying the designer a commission on every sale.

 

It was difficult for me to select my favorite card.  In the end, I went with the Let’s Be Jolly card in teal.  Here’s our card!

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I feel conflicted about Pippa’s ‘signature’ being on the card.  I ordered the cards before Tuesday, obviously.  I feel sad to see her name included with the rest of the furbabies and know she’s gone, but I guess I’d rather it not be left off entirely. 🙁

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Regardless – beautiful card, right?  The best part is our family photo was shot with Kristien’s Samsung Galaxy.  The quality is still great – it probably doesn’t hurt that the card is printed so nicely and on such thick paper.

 

I’m just pleased that we’re finally going to be *that family* that sends out photo holiday cards!  Now I’ve just got to hunt down everyone’s address and fill out the envelopes. 🙂

 

Onto the giveaway!

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Click through to enter to win a $100 credit to Minted.com.

One lucky reader will receive a $100 credit to Minted.com.  You can use your credit towards your own holiday cards or another beautiful Minted.com product.

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To enter to win, simply leave a comment describing your favorite holiday tradition.  Mine is probably decorating the tree!  I’ll pick the winner on Monday.

 

Happy Holidays!

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  • Kimberly November 15, 2013, 12:40 pm

    My fiancé and I are getting close to ordering our Save the Dates so this would be perfect! My favorite holiday tradition is that my family always makes popcorn and hot chocolate (with marshmallows!) on Christmas Eve.

  • Debbie November 15, 2013, 12:41 pm

    My favorite tradition is cinnamon rolls & hot chocolate on Christmas morning while opening presents!

  • sara November 15, 2013, 12:45 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is the elves (mom) leaving holiday pajamas on Christmas Eve for us to wear. Ever since we were little we find a new set of pajamas waiting on the bed for us to put on before we go to sleep on Christmas Eve. Even though we are adults now she still buys us a pair and we pretend the elves brought them. She even included my boyfriend last year!

    • Samantha November 15, 2013, 1:04 pm

      I love the idea of that tradition! My family never did it, but it’s something i would love to do if I have a family of my own!

    • Erin November 15, 2013, 3:44 pm

      Mine is “Christmas PJs” too! We always had new ones every Christmas Eve as well; when we were little my mom would make them. I can’t wait to continue the tradition when my fiancé and I have kids 🙂

  • Sara November 15, 2013, 12:48 pm

    Mine is cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!

  • Sarah November 15, 2013, 12:48 pm

    My favorite tradition is one that is ending as my immediate family grows and expands with in-laws and nieces and nephews. Growing up we always picked names for a gift exchange, but we had to make the gift instead of buying it. We donated the money we saved to a charity. The tradition made for some very special gifts and memories – and some good laughs over failed attempts at DIY gifts 🙂

  • Kelly November 15, 2013, 12:49 pm

    As a kid, my favorite tradition was unwrapping one small present on Christmas Eve. I’m hosting Christmas Day festivities at my house this year for the first time, so I’m looking forward to maybe starting some new traditions!

  • Megan November 15, 2013, 12:50 pm

    My favorite tradition is decorating the tree! This is our first Christmas with our daughter and I hope we are able to create many more traditions! 🙂

  • Kate November 15, 2013, 12:50 pm

    I love putting together the Advent Calendar!

  • Carrie S November 15, 2013, 12:53 pm

    My favorite is all the fun little presents my parents would put in our stocking, we always opened those first.

  • Michelle @ A Healthy Mrs November 15, 2013, 12:54 pm

    I love everything about Christmas — travelling home to see our families, decorating the tree, holiday baking, buying gifts — everything! 🙂

  • Kate November 15, 2013, 12:56 pm

    Baking day with my sister. Now my daughters can participate too which makes it even more fun!

  • Dominique November 15, 2013, 12:56 pm

    My favorite christmas traditions from my family is french onion soup on christmas eve and baklava for breakfast on christmas day.

    My favorite christmas tradition from my husband’s family is that he, his dad and his brother all get underwear as gifts from santa and there is always a picture of them together wearing the underwear on their head. it is so funny to me every time.

  • Caitlin Dunlevy November 15, 2013, 12:58 pm

    Cutting down the tree then buying the ornament of the year!

  • Kelsey M. November 15, 2013, 12:58 pm

    I love the tradition of getting together with my mom, aunt, grandma, and cousins to go Christmas shopping together before the holidays! It’s such a nice way to spend time together before everything gets so crazy busy!

  • Ash November 15, 2013, 12:58 pm

    Drinking hot cocoa!

  • Christyne November 15, 2013, 12:58 pm

    My favorite tradition is opening one gift on Christmas Eve which always happens to be new pajamas. My Mother did this for year and it’s a tradition that I’ve started with my own family.

  • Jenny November 15, 2013, 1:00 pm

    My mom’s birthday is on 12/21. A few days before, my siblings & I would go Christmas/birthday shopping with my dad to buy gifts for her (and sometimes, for each other while the other was distracted). Now that I live 7 hours away, I don’t get to go shopping with them – but I always get lots of texts, calls, and photos from them while they are shopping so that I can still ‘help’.

    My husband & I have started our own tradition of pajama pants on Christmas Eve – I’m responsible for making them! We figure it will be a fun tradition to continue once we have children.

  • Nicole November 15, 2013, 1:01 pm

    First of all, I LOVE Minted! We ordered our wedding invitations from them last year!

    My favorite holiday tradition is my family’s Italian Christmas Eve! I grew up in an Italian-American family, and Christmas Eve was when all the festivities took place. From the obscene amount of fish dishes to the huge display of Italian cookies and desserts, no wonder I grew up to be a total foodie! I still remember my grandmother teaching me how to say Buon Natale (Merry Christmas in Italian) by pointing to this sign she hung up in the kitchen every year. I still have that Buon Natale sign, and I still hang it up every year : )

  • Kristen November 15, 2013, 1:02 pm

    Beautiful cards! I’d love to check out Minted! One of my favorite traditions is my dad making coffee drinks on Christmas Eve to enjoy while opening presents. They are similar to B-52s, but with creme de cacao instead of Bailey’s. So delicious! And they make it nice and easy to fall asleep (yes, I’m a 27 year old who still gets so excited that she has trouble falling asleep on Christmas Eve).

  • Natalie November 15, 2013, 1:02 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with all of our family and friends and going out to look at Christmas lights! We all pack into our parent’s SUVs and caravan around the neighborhood with hot chocolate and coffee! It’s a lot of fun and it’s amazing to see the beautiful homes all decked out for the holidays!

  • Lauren November 15, 2013, 1:03 pm

    Drinking bubbly with my husband while decorating the tree!

  • Samantha November 15, 2013, 1:04 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is a Christmas Eve fire. We never use our fire place, but on Christmas eve we always build a fire and it looks so beautiful with the decorated tree.

  • MB November 15, 2013, 1:04 pm

    Baking pies with my family!

  • Emily Walker November 15, 2013, 1:04 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve — having dinner with the family, watching a Christmas movie and opening the first present in front of the fireplace while eating cookies. Doesn’t get any better.

  • melissa l November 15, 2013, 1:06 pm

    My favorite tradition is picking out our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving with my in-laws, but I am looking forward to many new traditions to come with a 3 week old baby girl!!!! 1

  • Katie D November 15, 2013, 1:09 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies and pumpkin bread!

  • Ali November 15, 2013, 1:10 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is the evening of Christmas Eve! Christmas Eve is our most meaningfully celebrated day in my immediate family – more than actual Christmas Day (Christmas Day is for extended family for us). I’ve taken over the cooking duties the last 5-6 years or so to give my parent’s a break from the big holiday cook-a-thons that normal happen on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Years Day. I start cooking before church, place whatever I’m making in the oven to stay warm and we are ready to eat when we get back! We drive through my hometown’s lakeside park and see all the lights after church – and climb the lighthouse to see Rudolph who is always stationed on the lighthouse deck – and then head home to eat, listen to Christmas music, and open presents. I love that day so much. 🙂

  • Lindsay November 15, 2013, 1:10 pm

    My favourite holiday tradition is the new pyjamas on Christmas Eve as well. Great giveaway!

  • Kristy @ Kristy's Health Revolution November 15, 2013, 1:10 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is just hanging with my family. I don’t get to see them very often, so it’s nice to hang out. I’m looking forward to starting new family traditions now that I’m married!

  • K November 15, 2013, 1:10 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is enjoying meals together with family and friends!

  • Carolyn November 15, 2013, 1:10 pm

    I think my favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree together as a family. My son is a bit younger than Henry, but I can’t wait until he can be fully involved.

  • Sarah November 15, 2013, 1:12 pm

    My Favorite Holiday is watching Christmas Vacation and drinking egg nog out of our very own moose mugs Christmas Eve 🙂

  • Eli's Mom November 15, 2013, 1:12 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is always flying back home to the Philippines and now with my little one in tow. This year will be a memorable one considering what’s going on with Haiyan devastation. Hopefully, we will be able to extend ourselves more with all the relief efforts that are going on there.

  • Alicia W November 15, 2013, 1:15 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is filling stockings on Christmas Eve. I love waking up Christmas morning and watching everyone go through their stocking before opening presents!

  • Kendra November 15, 2013, 1:16 pm

    My favorite tradition is singing Christmas Carols with my family on Christmas Eve. My Dad’s side of the family has all the classics typed out and they pass them around after dinner and we all sing. It just isn’t Christmas until I hear my uncle belt out “FAAAAALL ON YOUR KNEES!!!” It is so special and I never realized it until my husband joined my family for the first time many years ago and couldn’t believe that families actually do this. Ha!

  • Therese November 15, 2013, 1:18 pm

    We did cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning too! Always so warm and festive.

  • Nina November 15, 2013, 1:18 pm

    Cookies for Santa

  • Keri November 15, 2013, 1:20 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is baking my great aunt’s klotchkes (Polish pastries). They are super labor-intensive, but worth every minute! Yum!

  • Suzanne November 15, 2013, 1:20 pm

    Making Christmas cookies with my kids. My grandmother’s pecan balls are our favorite!

  • Mina November 15, 2013, 1:22 pm

    Going to see holiday light displays!

    Mina

  • Luv What You Do November 15, 2013, 1:23 pm

    I love doing Thanksgiving in NYC and going to the parade!

  • Kelli November 15, 2013, 1:24 pm

    There are so many great holiday traditions, & now that we have a 14 month old with another on the way, we are so excited to start new traditions that are just our family’s.
    My current favorite tradition:
    when we are with my side of the family we wake up bright & early Christmas morning & all put on very silly santa hats. Then we pass out presents & go around opening them one at a time. We eat breakfasty breads & have coffee & juice during this so even though it takes an hour or more it is really fun & relaxing!

  • Amber November 15, 2013, 1:24 pm

    Seeing family!

  • julia November 15, 2013, 1:24 pm

    Mine is going to church on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the giveaway!

  • Betty Jo November 15, 2013, 1:24 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is setting out all of my nativity sets.

  • Revanna November 15, 2013, 1:26 pm

    Christmas baking!

  • Hannah November 15, 2013, 1:26 pm

    We always have a real tree and we always have a campfire on Christmas Eve!!

  • Jaime November 15, 2013, 1:29 pm

    Breakfast on Christmas morning with the family!

  • Desirae November 15, 2013, 1:29 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is to exchange a new Christmas Ornament Christmas Eve. I collected the Hallmark Barbie shoe ornaments every year until they stopped making them so every year One of my sisters always made sure to get me one, and whatever sister I had I made sure to get them one that went with their collection

  • Stephanie November 15, 2013, 1:30 pm

    Each year we have a different theme for Christmas Eve. This year it will be as chili fest complete with a chili cook-off!

  • erika November 15, 2013, 1:31 pm

    reading Christmas stories with the kids…..

  • Martha November 15, 2013, 1:34 pm

    We always go to to Christmas Eve church and then come home to have bean dip for dinner. Yes, my family is weird.

  • Anne November 15, 2013, 1:35 pm

    Decorating our apartment. We don’t have a tree because our space is too small, but I love stringing up lights and garlands to make it feel festive.

  • Lori November 15, 2013, 1:35 pm

    Playing for my husband to sing “O Holy Night” at the Christmas Eve service at church.

  • Kel November 15, 2013, 1:35 pm

    Making cookies for the neighbors. thanks!

  • Rachel November 15, 2013, 1:35 pm

    Baking and frosting Christmas cookies! Fun, beautiful, and of course delicious!

  • Regina November 15, 2013, 1:35 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is watching holidays movies together, cuddled up in front of the fireplace drinking hot cocoa and eating smores. This year I am SO excited for the holidays. It’s the first year our son will be old enough to understand a bit more what’s going on (like Santa!! He’s almost 15 months old–born just over 2 months after Henry 😀 ). And we’re pregnant! Holy holiday hormones 🙂

  • Aerevyn November 15, 2013, 1:36 pm

    I love the holidays and all the things that go with it.

    Every year I find a production of The Nutcracker to go to. This year I found a puppet show version that is too cute to resist. : )

  • Peggi November 15, 2013, 1:39 pm

    My favorite tradition with my son (almost 8) is making cookies on Christmas Eve morning to put out for Santa 🙂 I LOVE these cards and I would love to win this, it would help me out so much!

  • Ashley O. @ The Vegetable Life November 15, 2013, 1:39 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is actually Christmas Eve where we all go to the evening candle light church service…. and then go home to feast on delicious chinese food! Sometimes its the little celebrations during the holidays that mean the most!!!

  • Emily November 15, 2013, 1:39 pm

    This is so cheesy but we have been doing it for FOREVER so it really has the nostalgia factor going for it. After we come home from church on Christmas Eve we all grab some drinks (used to be hot cocoa, now its usually something festive and alcoholic) and read the Polar Express together.

  • Brittany November 15, 2013, 1:39 pm

    I am so in love with getting our tree and decorating the tree and house. We usually do it the first saturday in december but thats so late this year that were doing it the saturday after thanksgiving instead. I love minted they have such great designs!

  • Lauren November 15, 2013, 1:40 pm

    definitely riding around and looking at all of the Christmas lights!

  • Jessie November 15, 2013, 1:41 pm

    I love putting up the tree and holiday baking!

  • Rachel November 15, 2013, 1:41 pm

    Love the cards– they are gorgeous! My favorite holiday tradition is watching A Muppet’s Christmas Carole on Christmas eve… we started doing it when I was really little, and now that I live far away from home, even my in-laws have embraced it in my honor! That’s love– and family! What Christmas is all about!

  • Emily P in DC November 15, 2013, 1:42 pm

    Cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning! This year I need to figure out a good gluten-free recipe, wish me luck!

  • Lily November 15, 2013, 1:45 pm

    I love fixing Mexican with my husband on Christmas Eve….we call it our Feliz Navidad

  • Anu November 15, 2013, 1:46 pm

    Flying to the UK to visit fam!

  • Ashley T. November 15, 2013, 1:47 pm

    I love opening my stocking and eating christmas pastry! My mom has always gone above and beyond with the unique things she finds to put in the stocking and now she does one for my husband and son too.

  • Stephanie November 15, 2013, 1:48 pm

    Decorating the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving with the kids.

  • Lin November 15, 2013, 1:50 pm

    Picking out The tree!

  • Kelly E. November 15, 2013, 1:51 pm

    Oh, gracious, not sure I can pick just one. I love our Christmas Eve tradition. We usually all gather and have either pizza or Mom’s homemade chili. Of course, the cookies and other goodies come out, too. We then sit around the living room, opening gifts. I love this tradition because it frees up Christmas morning/day for what really matters. We always have monkey bread in the morning, and will usually open the stocking stuffers then. Then the whole day is ahead of us and that varies – from walks on the beach to a formal, homemade dinner, to eating a fancy restaurant in a quaint southern town. It all just depends, but Christmas Eve rarely strays from tradition and I love that! Thank you for the chance to win!

  • Janelle November 15, 2013, 1:51 pm

    Opening the stocking stuffers right away on Christmas morning (usually while wearing pajamas and drinking coffee) is one of my favorite traditions!

  • Carrie November 15, 2013, 1:53 pm

    My favorite tradition is having a big breakfast on Christmas morning after opening gifts! We always make special treats for that breakfast!

  • Wendy November 15, 2013, 1:54 pm

    My favorite is sleeping under the christmas tree and watching Love Actually and White Christmas.

  • Jill November 15, 2013, 1:54 pm

    My favorite tradition is baking Christmas cookies!

  • Erika November 15, 2013, 1:55 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is hiding Christmas crackers on the tree and then all wearing the included “funny hats” for Christmas dinner!

  • Jàima November 15, 2013, 1:55 pm

    Traveling to Indiana to see my parents and snow!

  • Meredith T. November 15, 2013, 1:55 pm

    I love making Christmas cookies with my family.

  • Elizabeth November 15, 2013, 1:57 pm

    Our favorite tradition is going out to the tree farm to cut the perfect tree. Our family heads out on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, saw in hand, to trudge through the Michigan wilderness (i.e. tree farm) and fall the grandest Douglas Fir that money can buy (and that can fit in our tiny living room. We do it each year come snow or even rain and always have a great time. Santa drives the tractor and we all get hot chocolate afterwards.

  • Rachel November 15, 2013, 1:58 pm

    I honestly think I might like Christmas Eve better than actual Christmas. The anticipation, the family traditions and parties.. Love it all.

  • Laura November 15, 2013, 1:58 pm

    We love watching Elf while we decorate the tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, and now that my 2 year old son is here, I’ve been getting Christmas pajamas for the three of us each year.

  • Alicia November 15, 2013, 2:04 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is loading up on travel mugs of hot chocolate and driving around to see all the light displays.

  • abbi November 15, 2013, 2:04 pm

    Baking cookies is my favorite tradition!

  • Sara November 15, 2013, 2:05 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is the baking! I make goodie plates for our friends with usually pumpkin bread, my mom’s rocky road candy and a few different Christmas cookies. 🙂

  • Lori November 15, 2013, 2:06 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition right now is making NEW traditions with my husband. This Christmas will be our second married Christmas!

  • Ashley November 15, 2013, 2:07 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve. It’s changed somewhat as I’ve gotten older, gotten married, etc. The current tradition is for us to go to my husband’s grandmother’s house for Christmas Eve dinner (always fried shrimp), and then go go back to my Mom’s house (where we stay while we’re in town) and read “The Night Before Christmas”, then everyone gets to open a single present. Lots of fun!

  • Carlee November 15, 2013, 2:07 pm

    My favorite tradition is bringing out all our holiday books. I love going through all the books my mom has saved since I was just a baby. This year, I can’t wait to share them with Gregory.

  • Adriana November 15, 2013, 2:07 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve at my parent’s house. We are Italian and do a traditional fish based meal. We all gather at my parent’s house, cook a huge feast, and Santa comes over around 9 pm and gives the kiddies gifts. It’s such a wonderful tradition started by my grandparents and has been made even more special now as we integrate our younger generations.

  • Dana November 15, 2013, 2:08 pm

    While cards are probably my second favorite I love decorating the tree. We always got a real tree growing up so I’d go out and cut it down with my Dad and then the whole family would get together in the family room with hot cocoa and holiday music and spend the evening decorating. Love it!

  • Valerie November 15, 2013, 2:09 pm

    I make Chex Mix every year for family and friends. This will be my fifth year and I really love giving people a salty treat when there are so many sweets around.

  • Maggie November 15, 2013, 2:10 pm

    My favorite tradition is baking cookies!

  • Jessica November 15, 2013, 2:11 pm

    My favorite Holiday Tradition is going making Ebelskivers (German Pancakes) with my grandmother. We make them at both thanksgiving & Christmas! They are pretty much round bite size pancakes with apple(or any other fruit) bites in the center. So delicious!!!

  • Vanessa November 15, 2013, 2:12 pm

    Singing “Silent Night” at the Christmas Eve service. They turn off all the lights, everyone gets a candle, the pastor plays guitar, and it’s beautiful. I love the build-up to Christmas Day more than the day itself 🙂

  • Sandy W. November 15, 2013, 2:12 pm

    We began the 25 Days of Family Togetherness…I spin off from C&C (Tina) 25 Days of Togetherness. I am preparing for it now and I love the memories it creates for my family.

  • kristen @ livinlifeinlouie November 15, 2013, 2:13 pm

    My favorite tradition is christmas dinner on christmas eve and then we go see christmas lights, and then church.

  • Karlee November 15, 2013, 2:13 pm

    I love celebrating christmas eve at my aunt and uncle’s!

  • Elizabeth November 15, 2013, 2:13 pm

    I love drinking hot chocolate while watching Christmas Movies!

  • Nicole November 15, 2013, 2:13 pm

    Making hot chocolate. Yum!

  • Sylvia November 15, 2013, 2:14 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is cooking cinnamon rolls from scratch. It’s how our house knows the holidays are here. Plus, it’s fun to get everyone involved in the whole process 🙂

  • Rachel F November 15, 2013, 2:14 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is COOKING! I love planning out the menu, shopping, and spending the day in the kitchen.

  • Elizabeth November 15, 2013, 2:15 pm

    My husband and I are newly married and would love to send out holiday cards this year! He is Jewish and I am Christian, so we celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas every year! Our favorite part about both holidays is definitely the food!! We hope to start new traditions for our family, especially once we have a little one!

  • Lisa November 15, 2013, 2:16 pm

    My family has had a Christmas Eve pajama tradition for as long as I can remember, and now that my parents are divorced, I get to do it twice!

  • Rachel @ LouLouBelle November 15, 2013, 2:16 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is mimosas on Christmas morning in wine glasses! It’s a nice treat!

  • Tabitha November 15, 2013, 2:16 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition we do with our family is the coal game. We all pass around wrapped gifts and trade an ‘x’ amount of times in a circle. Then on the last time you want to be the person with the ‘coal’ in your box because it’s always a better gift!! We do this on top of normal family gift giving. It’s is something fun and exciting to do…and to see allt he other silly gifts that family members got!! 🙂 Happy Holidays!

  • Janine November 15, 2013, 2:17 pm

    Spending time cooking with my sister.

  • Leslie November 15, 2013, 2:17 pm

    Growing up, we composed an annual poem to accompany our cards. Last year, my husband and I continued that tradition and used our poem to announce the name and gender of our baby! 🙂

  • Katie D. November 15, 2013, 2:18 pm

    My favorite tradition is making pfferneuse cookies!

  • Ashley November 15, 2013, 2:20 pm

    My favorite tradition is decorating the tree, too! But you have to have Christmas music or movies playing in the background 🙂

  • Amy November 15, 2013, 2:20 pm

    We always get a game for Christmas, and play it on Christmas night-I still remember the year I got Mall Madness!

  • melanie November 15, 2013, 2:21 pm

    spent hours last night looking up save the dates and invitations with my fiancée so this would be great! I love watching the Macy’s parade every thanksgiving morning 🙂

  • Eva November 15, 2013, 2:22 pm

    Love your family Christmas card – – photo cards are my favorite too. Two favorite traditions 1) my mom’s cookies. She makes around 12 different kinds and a couple batches of each. Every year she gives a couple plates away to family/friends – and now that I’m out of the house, I get a plate too 🙂 2) The pickle ornament! I have no idea what the actual history of this is – – but we have a pickle ornament and every year “santa” would hide it in the tree for us to find Christmas morning. Whoever found the pickle first got an extra present (always something for the family, like a movie or a board game) and of course, the pride.

  • Janelle November 15, 2013, 2:22 pm

    Aw I’m glad Pippa’s on there even though it’s a sad reminder.

    My favorite holiday tradition is getting shirts designed and made for the whole family. This is our sixth year of shirts! Makes for fun photos.

  • Brittney November 15, 2013, 2:23 pm

    We have a lot of holiday traditions. One is that my mom and I try to go see the Nutcracker together every year. My husband and I like to watch Christmas movies (or Christmas episodes of South Park) while decorating the tree. I also bake ridiculous amounts of Christmas cookies every year.

  • Elspeth November 15, 2013, 2:23 pm

    I love sitting in my parent’s living room on Chirstmas eve. The tree is glowing, fire place is raoring and my whole family is there to enjoy the warmth and love!

  • Katy November 15, 2013, 2:24 pm

    My favorite childhood traditions were when my Dad would put on his father’s old red smoking jacket and read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” on Christmas Eve. And baking Christmas cookies with my Nana. Now that we’re grown we don’t do these traditions anymore, but hopefully we’ll bring them back with there are grandkids!

  • kelly November 15, 2013, 2:25 pm

    My favorite is the family picture we take around our city’s tree every year after mass on Christmas Eve (despite the freeeeeeeeezing temps!).

  • Sarah G November 15, 2013, 2:26 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas cookie baking!
    I am hopping on board with Karen’s Christmas pledge (http://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/)
    so that I am all finished with the planning part of Christmas early so I have plenty of time to enjoy the season!
    Love these Minted cards.

  • brooke November 15, 2013, 2:27 pm

    i love christmas morning breakfast-monkey bread! yum!

  • Allyson November 15, 2013, 2:28 pm

    So many fun card and other options to choose from on Minted! My favorite tradition is cooking a big vegetarian meal together the day before Christmas. There’s nothing like being together and creating delicious food to celebrate!

  • Kate November 15, 2013, 2:30 pm

    Definitely going to church on Christmas Eve and seeing all the kids dressed up in their Christmas best!

  • Christine November 15, 2013, 2:31 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is watching Elf and all the other great holiday movies out there!

  • Chrissy November 15, 2013, 2:31 pm

    I love the seasonal food items, especially Silk Soy Nog and Tofurkey!

  • Deanne November 15, 2013, 2:32 pm

    Every year we go to church on Christmas Eve, then head over to my grandparents house to open a few gifts and eat snacks. Then either Christmas Day or Boxing Day we all get together and have Christmas dinner.

  • Holly November 15, 2013, 2:32 pm

    My favorite tradition is making vayanika (Russian version of pierogi) with my grandma, mom, and sister. We stuff them with cheese and mashed potatoes. They’re a big treat because we only get them once a year!

  • Becca November 15, 2013, 2:32 pm

    mine is baking with my mom!

  • Christine November 15, 2013, 2:32 pm

    Watching The Muppet Christmas Carol and baking with my sister.

  • Caroline @ After Dinner Dance November 15, 2013, 2:35 pm

    I love waking up super early on Christmas morning and watching A Christmas Story until everybody wakes up!

  • Amy November 15, 2013, 2:36 pm

    Christmas is all about spending time with Family to me

  • Christine November 15, 2013, 2:38 pm

    Cards with pictures are my favorite too. 🙂 Hmm…holiday traditions. I love all of them! My favorite has to be Christmas Eve–we go to church, have dinner with the family, drive around looking at Christmas lights, and read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas in front of the tree before heading to bed. 🙂

  • Lindsay November 15, 2013, 2:38 pm

    Finding, cutting down, and decorating the tree! Oh, and baking cookies of course 🙂

  • Kate November 15, 2013, 2:38 pm

    My favorite tradition is the wrapping session we have on Christmas Eve. It used to just me be and my mom, but as my sister’s grew older they join in on the fun now!

  • Suzy November 15, 2013, 2:38 pm

    Maybe for above Pippa’s name you can draw a little halo with a gold pen?

    My favorite tradition is stockings with my husband. That’s where we get goofy and creative. I can’t wait to do stockings (and first christmas!!) with our little boy this year.

    • Cheryl November 15, 2013, 2:55 pm

      Aww – such a good idea

  • Laura November 15, 2013, 2:41 pm

    I love Christmas Eve midnight mass, then going home and opening one present under the tree! Love your family Holliday cards 🙂

  • Jennifer November 15, 2013, 2:41 pm

    My family’s Christmas Eve dinner is the best!

  • Brenda November 15, 2013, 2:42 pm

    My favorite tradition is eating my mom’s signature cookie: the peppermint nighty night. I’m going to have her teach me to make them this year!

  • Meghan November 15, 2013, 2:43 pm

    I love watching Christmas Vacation with my husband, every year it’s a great way to remember my parents who have passed away. I remember watching with them, and I remember all of the ways my parents embodied Clark and Ellen Griswold, and it makes me smile.

  • Ali November 15, 2013, 2:43 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the house/tree with all over our favorite winter and holiday decorations!

  • Mer November 15, 2013, 2:45 pm

    Mom’s cookies!

  • Stephanie November 15, 2013, 2:46 pm

    Every year everyone in the family gets an ornament that reflects something that happened over the past year, so as we decorate the tree every year, we get to share the memories associated with each ornament.

  • Lesley November 15, 2013, 2:46 pm

    I love being with all of my family on Christmas Eve

  • Emily November 15, 2013, 2:46 pm

    I love baking all kinds of Christmas cookies!

  • Cheryl November 15, 2013, 2:47 pm

    Ugh I wish I new about this earlier! I recently ordered holiday invites I wasn’t thrilled with and these look so much better!

    My fav holiday tradition is going late night shopping with my Dad on Christmas Eve Eve 🙂

  • Lisa November 15, 2013, 2:48 pm

    I love love love the day that our family goes to cut down our Christmas tree. We come home, turn on the carols, my husband puts the lights on the tree and then our daughters hang the ornaments. It’s lovely 🙂

  • Abbey November 15, 2013, 2:48 pm

    My favorite is the festivities of Christmas Eve. My dad and I still save one gift to be purchased on Christmas Eve morning. The hustle and bustle is always so exciting and special for father and daughter bonding time. Then the prep of the big feast, going to church and looking at Christmas lights after.

  • mama November 15, 2013, 2:52 pm

    We always build a gingerbread house together!! SO much fun!

  • Jenn November 15, 2013, 2:53 pm

    Mine is waking up on Christmas morning and NO ONE is allowed to open up their stockings before everyone is awake. My step father also makes fun “From” cards..from the Chicken, Fashion Police, Mrs. Clause, The pets, and anyone else you can think of..I think I’ve also gotten a gift from Elvis.

  • Alison November 15, 2013, 2:53 pm

    My favorite tradition is baking! I save a few treats to only be made during the holiday season to make it extra special! 🙂

  • Bobbie November 15, 2013, 2:53 pm

    I think my favorite holiday tradition is allowing my girls to take the day off from school and trekking into the city to see the light show at Strawbridges…following that with a delicious lunch and trip to the bakery.

  • sarah November 15, 2013, 2:58 pm

    Our family has the tradition of getting new pajamas on Christmas Eve and watching White Christmas after we all change into the new pjs. Love it =)

  • Crystal @TriFoodieMD November 15, 2013, 2:58 pm

    We always decorate the tree as a family while enjoying traditional snacks, drinks, and listening to Christmas music.

  • Leighann November 15, 2013, 2:58 pm

    My favorite tradition was going with all my siblings, parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles to cut down a tree in the snow and drink lots of hot chocolate! As we all got older and moved away the tradition has faded but hopefully I’ll get to do with my own family some day!

  • Kerry November 15, 2013, 3:00 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with family. It doesn’t matter what we do, it is just nice to take a break and hang out with the people you love. Also, the food!!!

  • Sarah November 15, 2013, 3:01 pm

    Going home to see my parents – I’m grown and married now – and still driving around to look at lights and making cookies!

  • Chanel C. November 15, 2013, 3:04 pm

    My boyfriend and I have been buying an ornament on every vacation we’ve been on in the last 5 years. We’ve been all over, but the highlights for us are: Peru, Egypt, Greece, and Belize. Every year when we decorate our tree we get to pull out the 20+ ornaments that we’ve bought on each trip, which is such a fun way to remember our fun times together. It is by far my favorite holiday tradition!

  • Korrie November 15, 2013, 3:04 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas morning breakfast. That’s the best. Sets the mood for the entire day.

  • Kim November 15, 2013, 3:05 pm

    My favorite tradition – getting the tree. Everyone seems to go fake nowadays, but having a real, live Christmas tree is my favorite. From getting it up the stairs to our living room, to putting tons of lights on it (and almost falling off the ladder in the process :/), to placing the ornaments just right to fill all the holes – a real tree is definitely the best tradition. Nothing beats the smell of a fresh tree when you walk in a house.

  • Kaella November 15, 2013, 3:06 pm

    I also love decorating the tree (with Christmas music playing in the background, of course!)

  • Andrea November 15, 2013, 3:08 pm

    I love holiday traditions! I really enjoy decorating the house…but I think this year I’m most looking forward to getting warm drinks and then walking a street nearby that has amazing Christmas lights. We did it last year with our then-six-month-old, and I am so excited to do it again this year!

  • Heather November 15, 2013, 3:10 pm

    My favorite tradition is definitely decorating the tree and hanging up the ornaments — the only thing I allow myself to collect as a daughter of a hoarder 😉 Each ornament has a special memory and it’s so fun to relive them each year!

  • Amanda @ There Are 2 Sides November 15, 2013, 3:10 pm

    We always open one present on Christmas Eve!

  • Christin November 15, 2013, 3:12 pm

    I can’t pick a favorite, but my Mom and I always watch the movie White Christmas every year. 🙂

  • Jonelle November 15, 2013, 3:13 pm

    I love baking with my husband and mom in law. They’re both amazing and it’s so fun to watch them work in the kitchen. They bake a ton of treats.

  • Shannon P November 15, 2013, 3:15 pm

    My favorite tradition is watching Christmas movies! Home Alone, Elf, and The Santa Clause top the list!

  • Ashley November 15, 2013, 3:15 pm

    My favorite tradition is baking and frosting cookies on Christmas eve with my mom and siblings

  • Caro November 15, 2013, 3:17 pm

    Christmas cookies! We always use my grandma’s recipe and put sprinkles but no icing on them.

  • SuperCutePetContest November 15, 2013, 3:19 pm

    Adding some peppermint liqueur to hot chocolate. Yum! I love receiving holiday photo cards. We usually keep those and after the holidays, cut the picture out and leave it on our fridge!

  • Jenn November 15, 2013, 3:20 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is going to my aunt’s house in Kentucky for Thanksgiving. There will be over 45+ people there this year! there is tons of food, and it’s loud and so much fun!

  • Jill November 15, 2013, 3:21 pm

    i love sending out holiday cards!

  • marissa November 15, 2013, 3:22 pm

    my favorite holiday tradition is going to get our Christmas tree, so much fun to pick out our perfect tree to bring home 🙂

  • Susan @momswimbikerun November 15, 2013, 3:23 pm

    My favorite tradition is exchanging family gifts between my kids on Christmas eve. I love seeing how excited the kids are to GIVE their gifts.

  • Kimberly November 15, 2013, 3:27 pm

    My favorite tradition is a new one, it started last year and that is decorating Christmas cookies with my two year old daughter. We just had our second little girl this year and I am so excited about continuing this tradition each year with my sweet girls!

  • Jess (will run for cheeseburgers) November 15, 2013, 3:28 pm

    Favorite tradition is going to pick out a Christmas tree up around Boone!

  • Trina November 15, 2013, 3:28 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve dinner and present opening with my immediate family. We open Santa gifts on Christmas morning.

  • Kim November 15, 2013, 3:28 pm

    My favorite tradition is drinking hot tea out of a Christmas mug on Christmas morning while everyone opens gifts.

  • Amanda November 15, 2013, 3:32 pm

    Wassail Christmas Eve!

  • Rebecca Van Drunen November 15, 2013, 3:33 pm

    I always look forward to our annual Christmas Morning Sibling Picture on the stairs. Over the years it’s grown to include our spouses and now our own children. Such a fun tradition and so neat to see how a family grows exponentially over time. (And everyone always looks a little rough in our jammies and our bed heads…which adds to the greatness!)

  • Whitney November 15, 2013, 3:36 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is watching Miracle on 34th Street (both versions). I love them both for different reasons and it’s a great way to start the holiday season.

  • Laura November 15, 2013, 3:36 pm

    My grandma and I make peanut butter balls together every year and drink cheap wine. Funny back story: my grandma used to let me drink wine coolers when I was at her house (she lived next door so I walked home after) while I was under age and I thought she was the coolest grandma ever. I would only have one and my parents didn’t care. One day I want up there to have one and she was really weird about it-turns out she had just learned they were alcoholic!!! LOL. She thought they were non-alcoholic drinks. Now we drink them every year just because of this story.

  • Jordan K November 15, 2013, 3:39 pm

    Marathon Christmas cookie baking sessions with my Mom. They are always so much fun and we love making a huge mess each year then going around the neighborhood to deliver all the goodies. 🙂

  • Julia November 15, 2013, 3:40 pm

    We have many favorite traditions within my family, however, my favorite “newest” tradition is Thanksgiving with friends in Charlotte each year. All of us live away from our families, so we’ve been celebrating together every year since 2007. We wake up and do the Turkey Trot together and then spend the day eating, drinking and being merry (plus some napping mixed in there!). While Christmas will always be spent with my family in Pittsburgh, Thanksgiving is reserved for my “Charlotte Family!”

  • ChristineB November 15, 2013, 3:44 pm

    I love decorating our tree. Its far from designer, but most of the ornaments have sentimental value – they were either made by my mom, me or one of our three boys, they hung on the tree when I was young, they were given to my husband by a student when he taught school, or they are one of the ornaments we got for one of our boys each Christmas (we get them another ornament each year and they love looking for ‘their’ ornaments).

    I also love advent calendars and I think we do at least 4 or 5 different ones each year.

  • Tiphani November 15, 2013, 3:47 pm

    Every Christmas morning my mom makes this special casserole called Egg Bake! We only have it twice a year – Christmas & Easter. I look forward to it every year!

  • Ann November 15, 2013, 3:47 pm

    We build a fire and drink hot cider while decorating our tree. Although, tree decorating with a toddler is a little more complicated!

  • Elisa Gruss November 15, 2013, 3:47 pm

    going out to brunch Christmas Eve with family. Thanks!

  • Joanna November 15, 2013, 3:51 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas eve when we have our family polish Christmas meal. We have all the traditional foods with a few adaptions – perogies, fish, kielbasa, prune soup and much more. It is my favorite and I look forward to it each year!

  • Mary November 15, 2013, 3:53 pm

    Christmas carols!! (though…NOT until after Thanksgiving!)

  • Rachel November 15, 2013, 3:54 pm

    I love making hot chocolate with the kids before they open their presents.

  • wendie November 15, 2013, 3:55 pm

    Making Uncle Vinny’s sausage and ricotta stuffing. Mmm!

  • christa November 15, 2013, 3:56 pm

    My fav holiday tradition is volunteering at a soup kitchen on Christmas Day. We’re Jewish so it feels nice to lend a hand to those who are celebrating. Then afterward we get Chinese food and see a movie, of course!

  • Hannah November 15, 2013, 3:57 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is eating Christmas cookies and watching The Muppet Christmas Carol with my family on Christmas Eve!

  • Samantha November 15, 2013, 3:59 pm

    I love starting the holiday season watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade! 🙂

  • Jo Anna November 15, 2013, 3:59 pm

    We always eat shrimp on Christmas Eve!

  • Sarah November 15, 2013, 4:00 pm

    My favorite tradition would have to be my grandma hiding the ‘pickle’ ornament in the tree. It’s a German tradition and the finder gets a special present. Even as adults, my brothers and I are still very competitive!

  • Verna November 15, 2013, 4:01 pm

    Christmas jammies! We got new jammies on Christmas eve as kids and I’m continuing the tradition with my own.

  • Cara November 15, 2013, 4:02 pm

    Our little one is one year olds this year so we’re looking forward to me traditions with her. I think we will celebrate the solstice with our little family of three and Christmas with our larger extended family.

  • Kelly November 15, 2013, 4:05 pm

    I love that Christmas Eve is always spent TOGETHER as a family!

  • Erin November 15, 2013, 4:06 pm

    Definitely drinking hot chocolate and decorating the tree! We even popped our 5 month old in the Ergo so she could be included in the decorating fun 🙂

  • Allison November 15, 2013, 4:09 pm

    I love watching Elf on Christmas Eve.

  • Rachel November 15, 2013, 4:10 pm

    My mom always bought my sister and me matching pajamas that we’d open on Christmas Eve and wear that night and the next morning. She still buys us Christmas pjs every year, but now the tradition includes both of our spouses and my sister’s kids!

  • Britt November 15, 2013, 4:10 pm

    I love the 5 dollar white elephant gift exchange among my husbands family…almost entirely gag gifts. We have such a good time!

  • Lindsay November 15, 2013, 4:15 pm

    Fave holiday tradition has got to be the foods we eat…I love our typical Christmas morning breakfast casseroles!

  • Lauren November 15, 2013, 4:15 pm

    I love picking out the tree and decorating the house. I love opening stockings at my parents’ house as well!

  • Hannah November 15, 2013, 4:16 pm

    My husband and I always do “elf on the shelf” just the two of us. It’s a little childish and silly, but it brightens my day for a solid month. We’ve got a baby on the way now, so we can’t wait to share the tradition with her next year!

  • Angie November 15, 2013, 4:17 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is decorating – the tree, the house, everything!

  • Carrie November 15, 2013, 4:17 pm

    Movies on Christmas Day with the family! This is a bit more difficult now that my sister and I have little ones, but we make it work by going in shifts!

  • Stephanie C November 15, 2013, 4:20 pm

    My husband and I try to create more traditions for Christmas as time moves a long, as it’s one of our favourite holidays.
    My favourite right now, is our block’s Holiday Night where all the shops on one street provide appetizers, drinks, choir music, etc. while our small local theatre plays Christmas movies. We always make it a point to see White Christmas. We hope to start a family soon and can’t wait to share this with our own little one (hopefully next year!).

  • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine November 15, 2013, 4:22 pm

    Going to my grandparents on Christmas Eve! I love Christmas eve so much more than Christmas! All the anticipation and build up, you can just feel it in the air 🙂

  • Carol November 15, 2013, 4:26 pm

    Favorite holiday tradition would be going to the tree farm and cutting down the tree, we’ve been doing this for the past 4 years with two other couples, last year we had a new member, our 5 month old baby boy, but this year is going to be the best so far because the other two couples have babies of their own, so we’ve grown from 6 to 9 and I cannot wait! 🙂

  • Kate November 15, 2013, 4:26 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation for the first time of the season after eating Thanksgiving dinner.

  • Jill S November 15, 2013, 4:27 pm

    My favorite tradition is getting together to cook with my grandma. I have been helping her make holiday treats every year since I was 10 (not sure how much of a helper I really was then!)

  • Caitlin November 15, 2013, 4:28 pm

    My absolute favorite tradition is seeing both sides of my family on Christmas Day! It’s a lot of traveling, but it’s so worth it to be able to see everyone that I love dearly on such an important day!

  • Anne November 15, 2013, 4:30 pm

    My favorite tradition is getting the kids up after bedtime to go drive and look at Christmas lights. We have a neighborhood near us where every house is elaborately decorated. It’s so much fun!

  • Melanie November 15, 2013, 4:36 pm

    My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas music while decorating the house and drinking a festive Christmas cocktail/egg nog/hot chocolate. Such cozy/happy memories!

  • Elizabeth November 15, 2013, 4:36 pm

    Baking Christmas cookies with my mom!

  • Nicole @ Curly Mommy November 15, 2013, 4:37 pm

    My favorite tradition (other than the food of course!) is reading “T’was the Night Before Christmas” on Christmas Eve. 🙂

  • Cynthia November 15, 2013, 4:37 pm

    Putting up luminarias on Christmas Eve. So simple but so beautiful to light the way for baby Jesus!

  • Katie November 15, 2013, 4:42 pm

    Spending Christmas morning in our pjs and enjoying a big breakfast!

  • Kathy K November 15, 2013, 4:44 pm

    Baking and eating cookies is my favorite holiday tradition!
    (And I’m glad you left Pippa’s name on the card. She will always be part of your family!)

  • Simone November 15, 2013, 4:46 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree with my fiance while having Christmas scented candles lit all around. The dogs playing tug-of-war with the Christmas ribbon on the floor and Home Alone playing on the TV.

  • Allison November 15, 2013, 4:49 pm

    My kids making gingerbread houses with my mom.

  • Jess November 15, 2013, 4:49 pm

    Baking gingerbread men on Christmas Eve!

  • Lucy November 15, 2013, 4:50 pm

    Our town does a downtown Christmas stroll in December…holiday lights, trees, snow, carols and hot cocoa while the whole downtown is closed down to traffic and the community gathers to celebrate the beauty of the season 🙂

  • Maggie November 15, 2013, 4:51 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas morning breakfast at my grandma’s house!

  • Kellie November 15, 2013, 4:53 pm

    Watching Christmas vacation with the kids while we put up the tree.

  • Stephanie November 15, 2013, 4:55 pm

    Love Minted! I cannot wait to chop down a Christmas tree, Griswold Family style!

  • Dara November 15, 2013, 4:56 pm

    My husband & I always go out & cut down our own tree!

  • Dana B November 15, 2013, 4:58 pm

    This is our first holiday season as a family of 3 and this would be great!

    My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas morning breakfast. It’s usually followed by consuming several of my favorite chocolates that are always stuffed in my stocking!

  • Katie November 15, 2013, 4:59 pm

    One of my favorite parts of Christmas since being with my now husband is the driving time between family Christmas parties. We get a little time for just us to chat and talk about the fun conversations we had with each of our families. It will be different this year with our 4 month old unless he’s napping!

  • Lou Ann Johns November 15, 2013, 4:59 pm

    My favorite tradition is baking, decorating and eating our “Happy Birthday Jesus” cake with my daughters and husband.

  • may November 15, 2013, 5:00 pm

    this would really help me with my upcoming wedding save-the-dates! i was just cruising minted the other day and loved so many designs.
    thanks!

    • may November 15, 2013, 5:01 pm

      oh and my favorite tradition is watching ‘home alone.’ 🙂

  • Andrea B. November 15, 2013, 5:04 pm

    My favorite tradition is driving around viewing Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. It was always fun to find the house the Christmas threw-up on.

  • Melissa November 15, 2013, 5:08 pm

    Such a great card! My favorite holiday tradition is Black Friday shopping with my sister!

  • Bonnie November 15, 2013, 5:13 pm

    Baking with my mom and sisters!

  • Tashia November 15, 2013, 5:16 pm

    My husband and I have recently started hosting the family dinners at our house. It can be very overwhelming, but after everyone leaves we make hot chocolate and have our own time opening presents and relaxing. Its the best part of the day.

  • Anna November 15, 2013, 5:17 pm

    My favorite Christmas tradition is midnight mass. I love sitting in the church listening to the choir singing Christmas music.

    • Jen C. November 15, 2013, 7:47 pm

      My favorite tradition is setting up the Christmas tree. Many of our ornaments are old and i buy new ones with purpose every year. This year I will be buying a Mickey Mouse ornament for my daughter as she is totally obsessed with him. That ornament will pretty much sum up her year. For me and the hubs, I will be buying a new home ornament as we moved into our second (and hopefully forever) home in early 2013. Anyway, I love pulling out the ornaments and thinking of the story behind each and every one.

  • Kassie November 15, 2013, 5:24 pm

    We bake cookies on Christmas Eve for Santa! I can’t wait for this year because my daughter will be old enough to participate 🙂

  • Emily J November 15, 2013, 5:27 pm

    Eating Christmas dessert! Or maybe making and eating breakfast with my immediate family on Christmas day.

  • Ann November 15, 2013, 5:28 pm

    Making homemade sugar cookies to decorate and share with family and friends!

  • Emily s November 15, 2013, 5:33 pm

    My favorite tradition is decorating the tree. We buy ornaments each year, the kids pick a theme, and we reminisce over previous years ornaments.

  • Katie O November 15, 2013, 5:34 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is mincemeat pies and tea with my grandmother and Mumm while we wait for everyone else to get up so we can open stockings. That or making them with my mum!

  • Daniela C. November 15, 2013, 5:36 pm

    Christmas lunch at my parents house

  • Christie M. November 15, 2013, 5:37 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is doing a white elephant or yankee swap, they are always hilarious! second favorite tradition is drinking spiked hot cocoa while watching elf with friends! HOORAY HOLIDAYSS

  • Colleen November 15, 2013, 5:42 pm

    I’m excited for us to try a new tradition this year with our 20-month kid & newborn- we are going to open Christmas Jammie’s and a family movie on Christmas Eve. We hope to make it an annual tradition!

  • Amy November 15, 2013, 5:43 pm

    My favorite tradition is driving to the mountains to pick and cut our Christmas tree!

  • Joey November 15, 2013, 5:47 pm

    Our holiday traditions are changing this year… It will be the first time we don’t go back home to the Midwest to be with our families and instead stay in Vegas. I guess we will start to create our own traditions!

  • Jen November 15, 2013, 5:54 pm

    My favorite tradition is when my husband and I get home on Christmas night after all the family stuff and traveling. He takes pictures while I open my oldest cat’s stocking with him – I literally wrap every single toy and bag of treats and he LOVES IT. We unwrap everything, he climbs all over me, then rolls around in the wrapping paper. It’s truly the best.

  • Liz November 15, 2013, 5:57 pm

    Opening presents on Christmas Eve with just my immediate family and going to midnight mass afterwards! The music and the church lit up by candlelight brings back lots of good memories of my childhood.

  • Carly G November 15, 2013, 6:01 pm

    My favorite tradition is driving around looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve!

  • Kate November 15, 2013, 6:04 pm

    My family has always had a seafood dinner on Christmas Eve. I’m not sure when or why the tradition started but it’s fun (and delicious!)
    I’m counting down the days until I can start playing Christmas carols, too! Can’t start until the Macy’s parade ends 🙂

  • KatieTX November 15, 2013, 6:05 pm

    Baking gingerbread cookies!

  • Allison G November 15, 2013, 6:06 pm

    Mine is Christmas Day bunch. Drinking mimosas makes opening gifts extra fun!

  • Michelle November 15, 2013, 6:07 pm

    Ugly Christmas sweater parties are always a great time! And of course Christmas cookies are always a highlight.

  • Kelly November 15, 2013, 6:14 pm

    Advent calendars, because the best part of the holidays is the anticipation.

  • Hannah M. November 15, 2013, 6:20 pm

    My favorite tradition is ordering a new Hallmark ornament for my husband. I get one each year that reminds us of something big we’ve done (new house, new pet, travels, etc.). And now when we decorate the tree, we love to look back at the 13 ornaments and laugh and remember our great life!

  • Carol November 15, 2013, 6:21 pm

    Christmas Eve party with extended family !

  • Erin November 15, 2013, 6:21 pm

    My family always watches “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” on Christmas Eve. It’s my favorite tradition!

  • Nicole of Raspberry Stethoscope November 15, 2013, 6:28 pm

    I love your card!! it is so gorgeous. I just asked my facebook friends the same question, ie–holiday tradition. With my parents dead, my brother out of the picture, and my sister out of state, it’s just my husband and I. His family doesn’t really do Christmas:( I suppose one of my favorites is driving around seeing the holiday lights!

    • Nicole of Raspberry Stethoscope November 15, 2013, 6:28 pm

      And definitely watching all the holiday favorites, like Rudolph, Frosty, Home Alone, and LOVE ACTUALLY<3

  • Stacy November 15, 2013, 6:30 pm

    We collect ornaments from all of our travels, so my favorite tradition is definitely decorating the tree too! This will be our first married Christmas.

  • bonnie November 15, 2013, 6:33 pm

    On thanksgiving, after dinner, my extended family gathers in my aunts family room to sing Christmas carols- since after Thanksgiving dinner, it’s officially Christmas season! 🙂

  • stacey November 15, 2013, 6:35 pm

    green bean casserole, pumpkin bread & sparkling grape juice in champagne glasses.

  • Katie November 15, 2013, 6:40 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve…after coming back from a family lunch, my husband cooks “3” fishes for dinner for us instead of 7 fishes 🙂 While he is doing that I have It’s A Wonderful Life on…now we love continuing this tradition with our 2 beautiful daughters!!

  • sandra November 15, 2013, 6:43 pm

    My favorite tradition happens after the big holiday meal. my siblings, hubby, and I clean up and then camp out on the couches and recliner and have some quiet time. We chit chat, share our gifts with each other, play games, or watch a movie. No cell phones and the fireplace going…awesome!

  • Cate November 15, 2013, 6:49 pm

    I love baking with my family on Christmas Eve!

  • Maria November 15, 2013, 6:55 pm

    My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas Eve at my moms house!

  • Elisabeth November 15, 2013, 7:00 pm

    We open one gift on Christmas Eve – new pajamas for all 🙂

  • Lindsay McAlester November 15, 2013, 7:09 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is making Santa’s cookies with my two kids. It fun to get messy and talk about Christmas and it’s true meaning. Makes my heart happy! 🙂

  • Sarah November 15, 2013, 7:11 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition has to be baking and icing christmas cookies with my Mom. We always have this production process, with holiday music and movies, and I’m the designated “cookie-icer”.

  • Lauren @ The Highlands Life November 15, 2013, 7:12 pm

    I’m just excited to start our own traditions this year with our one year old!

  • Meg November 15, 2013, 7:15 pm

    My favorite Tradition Is baking cookies with my mom and sister!

  • Sarah November 15, 2013, 7:16 pm

    My favorite tradition is pancakes on Christmas morning!

  • Wendy November 15, 2013, 7:33 pm

    We are having our first baby any day now (hello…41 weeks!!) and I can’t wait to start new holiday traditions with our little boy this year! Decorating the tree, while signing along to christmas songs on Pandora will be one of the traditions that we will carry on with our son!

  • Katherine November 15, 2013, 7:38 pm

    Christmas Day brunch at our house with the kids in their pjs!

  • Amy November 15, 2013, 7:40 pm

    We have a one-year-old so I’m looking forward to making all sorts of new holiday traditions with our little family … but most looking forward to decorating the tree with old ornaments from my childhood and new ones from his!

  • Ilene November 15, 2013, 7:42 pm

    Baking and listening to Christmas songs 🙂

  • Katie sB November 15, 2013, 7:47 pm

    I love decorating the tree, making Christmas cookies with my sisters, and stockings on Christmas morning!

  • Samantha November 15, 2013, 7:48 pm

    I think my favorite is decorating the tree. I just love all the lights, but baking pies is a close second.

  • Megan November 15, 2013, 7:55 pm

    Cute card! Mine is cooking dinner with my family, especially now that I’m older and enjoy cooking myself.

  • Mary November 15, 2013, 7:55 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is secret Santas!

  • jeanna November 15, 2013, 7:58 pm

    Our annual Christmas ornament exchange:)

  • Jess November 15, 2013, 8:01 pm

    Favourite tradition would be getting friends and family together for the big meal!! Board games afterwards of course!

  • Mary November 15, 2013, 8:06 pm

    I love the day when we go to the tree farm and cut down our own tree…one of the best family days of the year:).

  • Emily November 15, 2013, 8:10 pm

    My favorite tradition is new pajamas on Christmas eve. It makes me so happy! (:

  • Jane November 15, 2013, 8:11 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree and now it’s even more special doing it with my little girls and seeing how excited they are to do it too!

  • katie November 15, 2013, 8:15 pm

    Mine is watching Christmas Vacation with my dad on Christmas Eve.

  • Melissa November 15, 2013, 8:19 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is driving out to Indiana and spending time with my family on Christmas Eve.

  • sarah r. November 15, 2013, 8:26 pm

    my favorite holiday tradition is st. nick’s day on dec 6. love it!

  • Tami November 15, 2013, 8:27 pm

    Watching my 9 year old sing on Christmas Eve at church followed by the candlelight service…always precious!

  • Erin November 15, 2013, 8:27 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is getting a new ornament each year when we get our christmas tree and adding it to the tree!

  • hannah November 15, 2013, 8:29 pm

    my favorite holiday tradition is my mom’s breakfast casserole on christmas morning.. so good!

  • Megan November 15, 2013, 8:33 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition (and it’s only 3 years old Id say) is filling out these little wish ornaments every single year and placing it on the tree. The following year, you open up your wish from the previous year and see if your wish came true! I love it! One year, both my in laws and husband wished for us to become pregnant! And we did that year!

  • Lisa November 15, 2013, 8:35 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is staying up late Christmas Eve wrapping presents with my sisters! We can never seem to get it done before then!

  • Daina November 15, 2013, 8:40 pm

    There’s nothing better than making Christmas cookies with my mom. And it’s no small task, there’s probably 10 different types of cookies that we make 30 or 40 plates with!! Yum!

  • kirsten November 15, 2013, 8:47 pm

    I love Minted, they have such beautiful designs! My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree!

  • Tyffanie November 15, 2013, 8:50 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree every year–playing Christmas loudly, stringing on the lights around the tree, unwrapping the ornaments and hanging them up one by one with the dog at our feet.

  • Abbe November 15, 2013, 8:53 pm

    We make the same dinner every year, and I adore the tradition. Christmas Eve is for experimentation, but Christmas means beef tenderloin and haricot vert! No matter where we are when we celebrate, it instantly feels Christmas.

  • Jackie November 15, 2013, 8:53 pm

    My husband and I have always watched Christmas Vacation every year to start off the holiday season, many years before we got married. It gets us in the mood and excited for all the other awesome little traditions!

  • Lisa November 15, 2013, 8:53 pm

    Christmas Eve — having dinner with my family and then watching a Christmas movie together. 🙂

  • Carolyn November 15, 2013, 9:11 pm

    Every Christmas we bust out the home videos. They are so much more entertaining 25+ years later after filming.

  • Jen November 15, 2013, 9:14 pm

    I love getting the tree!!

  • Jamie November 15, 2013, 9:15 pm

    baking and eating delicious holiday treats!

  • Cellabella November 15, 2013, 9:20 pm

    My favorite tradition is the homemade Advent calendar my husband and I do together. We pick alternate days and make a homemade gift for one another in each other’s boxes. It’s a fun and loving way to lead up to Christmas!

  • Madeline November 15, 2013, 9:22 pm

    My favorite tradition is opening gifts with my family and then all of us heading out to a movie. While we watch, our Christmas roast is cooking away in the oven so it’s ready when we return 🙂

  • Ashley November 15, 2013, 9:22 pm

    My favorite tradition is probably making Christmas cookies!

  • Kari November 15, 2013, 9:25 pm

    Mine is playing board games with the family on christmas night.
    Always a super fun way to end the day.

  • Whitney November 15, 2013, 9:26 pm

    Fave holiday tradition is baking/decorating cookies while watching A Christmas Story on repeat. my dad said as a kid, he was Ralphie, down to the orphan Annie decoder ring!

  • Nicole November 15, 2013, 9:26 pm

    My family dresses up to the nines for Christmas Eve which is my favorite holiday tradition!

  • Emily November 15, 2013, 9:29 pm

    Probably just being with my family on Christmas and eating cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!

  • Kathy November 15, 2013, 9:31 pm

    I love watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade!

  • Andi Murray November 15, 2013, 9:42 pm

    Midnight mass and matching pjs.

  • Emily W. November 15, 2013, 9:42 pm

    My husband is Polish and I love celebrating Wigilia with his family–it is a huge Christmas Eve meal and well wishing for the new year. It is a no-meat affair which adds to its awesomeness since I am in my 13th year of being a vegetarian.

  • Michelle Q November 15, 2013, 9:42 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve when my grandpa still dresses up as Santa and brings all the grand kids. & now great grand kids a gift from the North Pole

  • Abby November 15, 2013, 9:46 pm

    Cutting down our Christmas tree and adopting a family in need and providing some things for them!

  • Kelsey November 15, 2013, 9:53 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition has been cutting down our Christmas tree every year at a tree farm with my family and dogs then grabbing the celebratory burger lunch!

  • Laura T. November 15, 2013, 10:00 pm

    i love waking up on christmas morning & hanging out around the Christmas tree, drinking coffee with my family!

  • Melissa November 15, 2013, 10:02 pm

    My favorite tradition growing up was Christmas Eve at my grandparents house. The whole family, at least thirty of us, would gather for the evening. At about 10pm my aunts would take all of the kids out to look at Christmas lights. We’d arrive back at the house at about 11:30pm and begin our countdown until midnight. After “5-4-3-2-1!” and a big “Merry Christmas!” we’d all hug one another before opening presents. As a kid, it was the funnest thing ever to be able to stay up until midnight with my cousins and then open presents! Now as an adult, I cherish those memories.

  • Michelle November 15, 2013, 10:15 pm

    My mom’s cinnamon buns on Christmas morning!

  • KarenK November 15, 2013, 10:17 pm

    Our extended family has a crazy big Euchre tournament every year at the annual Christmas party. So much fun!

  • Anna November 15, 2013, 10:18 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition starts right after Thanksgiving…that Saturday we always go pick out a tree and decorate for Christmas!

  • Erika November 15, 2013, 10:21 pm

    Getting together with family on Christmas Eve. We enjoy eating appetizers all night instead of dinner, watching movies, and watching the children open their gifts from family.

  • Jennifer H November 15, 2013, 10:38 pm

    Favorite holiday tradition is baking and sharing (eating) the goodies!

  • Rebecca November 15, 2013, 10:41 pm

    Don’t want to scroll through 200+ comments to see if it’s already been pointed out but
    your link to Minted.com goes to your blog 404 page instead of their website. The link to the card type you have is right, but the other one is off. Weird.

  • Jill November 15, 2013, 10:43 pm

    My favorite tradition is our annual holiday ski trip!

  • Erica November 15, 2013, 10:46 pm

    I love going to the Christmas Eve church service. It sets the perfect tone for the holidays.

  • Kathy November 15, 2013, 10:46 pm

    Your card looks gorgeous and I think its nice that Pippa is included. So hard to pick one favourite tradition since I loooove Christmas but I’d have to say our tradition of schlepping out to pick a tree and awkwardly walking it back to the house, usually in the snow. Can’t wait!

  • Beth November 15, 2013, 10:49 pm

    My favorite is having a Birthday Cake for Jesus on Christmas morning!

  • Cate November 15, 2013, 10:50 pm

    I love the Holiday Season!! My favorite tradition is sitting by the tree listening to Christmas music or just reading a good book.

  • Marissa C November 15, 2013, 10:51 pm

    Cookie exchange with online friends!

  • Andrea November 15, 2013, 11:23 pm

    We just had a baby so we will be starting new traditions this year. She was born 10 weeks early so we have to keep her segregated from others so she doesn’t get sick. It would be great to send out photo cards so people can see her since they can’t visit her!

  • Abby November 15, 2013, 11:32 pm

    I just love spending time with family. My son is turning 1 so I can’t wait to see how he reacts to everything this year. 🙂

  • Caroline November 15, 2013, 11:33 pm

    One of my favorite Christmas traditions is that my siblings STILL will watch the TV show HOUSE together with just the fire going and Christmas tree lights on late into the night. It’s so peaceful and calm.

  • Marie Ainsworth November 15, 2013, 11:34 pm

    Board games with my family on Christmas Day!

  • Bri November 15, 2013, 11:38 pm

    Seeing Santa! My three sisters and I have gone to the same Santa for 28+ years and now get to include our cute kiddos in the tradition.

  • kathy v November 15, 2013, 11:39 pm

    christmas dinner

  • Carly November 15, 2013, 11:46 pm

    Baking is one of my favorite things!

  • Katie B. November 15, 2013, 11:58 pm

    Barreling down the stairs on Christmas morning to discover that Santa had snacked on the cookies that we’d left for him. And, sure enough, the reindeer even nibbled on the carrots! 🙂 Can’t wait to start this tradition with my daughter.

  • Steph November 16, 2013, 12:32 am

    Oops! I think I accidentally posted this on the wrong article!

    My favourite tradition is that we all had to meet in my parents bedroom on Christmas morning. We weren’t allowed to look at the tree or stockings or Santa would make them disappear. Then we all walk in order or age to see the tree behind my dad. Funniest moment ever, the first year my brother in law came over for Christmas and my mom made him sit on the foot of the bed too. HIS FACE! Priceless.

  • Kelley November 16, 2013, 12:32 am

    It’s got to be sneaking into the kitchen on the morning after thanksgiving and making myself a giant bowl of stuffing for breakfast. Every year!

  • Kristie November 16, 2013, 12:40 am

    I’ve been dying oy sent out cards from minted!

    My favorite tradition is watching White Christmas on Christmas Day. 🙂

  • Wehaf November 16, 2013, 1:19 am

    Mine is getting the tree – I love everyone going out and deciding which one is just right.

  • Jackie November 16, 2013, 1:25 am

    Making cookies and decorating the tree!

  • Lauren November 16, 2013, 1:38 am

    Egg nog! Enough said 🙂

  • Amye November 16, 2013, 3:12 am

    My favorite would be decorating the tree together as a family.

  • Jamin November 16, 2013, 5:04 am

    I’m obsessed with picking out a real Christmas tree, which we do every other year. Fortunately this is a “real tree” year, so we get to share this with our son who was born in October!! This is also the first year that we will be sending out Christmas cards – I can’t wait to share these and many more traditions with him!!

  • Kristin November 16, 2013, 5:34 am

    1-having the tree decorated before my birthday (12/12), 2- festival of lights in Richmond Virginia, 3-seeing family!

  • Becky November 16, 2013, 5:53 am

    Oh boy. Too many favorites to count. Cookie baking, midnight mass, Jesus’s special birthday cake. Looking forward to starting a few new traditions with my 16 month old too

  • brenda November 16, 2013, 6:03 am

    My favorite tradition is listening to Christmas music…cannot get enough of it!

  • L November 16, 2013, 6:24 am

    I love celebrating the holidays! My favorite tradition is helping my mother make cinnamon rolls and then christmas morning opening stockings, eating the cinnamon rolls and just being with my family!

  • Elizabeth November 16, 2013, 6:43 am

    This is my first Christmas with my twin girls so I am excited to start new traditions with them!

  • Pearl November 16, 2013, 7:08 am

    I can’t wait to share our tradition ofbbaking Christmas cookies and treats for friends and family with my little one.

  • Lucy November 16, 2013, 7:17 am

    Decorating the tree with my mom and kids

  • Amy November 16, 2013, 7:25 am

    Christmas music while decorating, Mass & dinner with my family, watching my son open his presents, making cookies- it’s hard to pick just one! Fingers crossed!

  • Heather November 16, 2013, 8:02 am

    Driving around to look at Christmas lights after Christmas Eve Mass!

  • Kellie November 16, 2013, 8:06 am

    Love these! My favorite tradition is the gift exchange at my in-laws house. It gets a little competitive!

  • Cassidy November 16, 2013, 8:56 am

    Secret Santa between just the cousins!

  • Laurie November 16, 2013, 9:00 am

    We do a gingerbread hunt with all the kids in the family that is so precious! They use clues to find different gingerbread boxes around the house with little special gifts inside. Look forward to it every year.

  • Laura November 16, 2013, 9:04 am

    My boyfriend and I are sending out Christmas cards this year and trying to figure out what route we want to take (pictures, funny, festive, etc). This would be PERFECT for us! My favorite holiday tradition? It’s very simple but on Christmas morning my parents, sister, and I sit around the tree and have a specific way of opening gifts. First we sort them by person, then my sister and I open our stockings, then my parents open their stockings and all their gifts, then my sister and I open our gifts. It’s so silly but we’ve been doing it since grade school and now we are both over 20! Some traditions never die. Even the simplest of ones.

  • Ashlyn November 16, 2013, 9:24 am

    My favorite tradition is cuddling on the couch and watching Christmas movies!

  • Shanna November 16, 2013, 9:40 am

    I love decorating the tree with a glass of hot cocoa in hand.

  • Laura November 16, 2013, 9:43 am

    My favorite thing is opening the stockings! And I totally want to be those people with picture cards. Fingers crossed!!

  • Amanda November 16, 2013, 9:53 am

    Fave tradition is def Thanksgiving morning watching the parade over waffles!

  • Katie November 16, 2013, 9:58 am

    I love listening to Christmas music while putting up the tree and nativity. I am excited about the new traditions we are starting with our 16 month old this year!

  • jen November 16, 2013, 10:00 am

    I have 2…first of all my entire life my family has had Pajama Day….its a holiday that happens on Dec 26th, and you stay in your pjs all day and play games, eat cookies, and hang out. now that my brothers and sisters and I are all out of my parents house, we all show up there early in the morning, and kids bring their favorite new toys, and the only rule is you have to stay in your pjs.

    secondly, my husband and I both play hooky from work one day in December for a Christmas decorating extravaganza! I make cinnamon buns for breakfast, we decorate the tree and house, and we end the day with a Christmas movie watched by the light of the Christmas tree. We’ve already picked out our day this year, and since I’m on maternity leave, he’s going to take 2 days to extend the fun! I love this time of year!

  • Katie M November 16, 2013, 10:07 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is baking Christmas cookies. We make cut-out sugar cookies, and we have a great time creating original outfits or designs for our cookies 🙂

  • Melissa November 16, 2013, 10:12 am

    Looking at all the lights in the neighborhood. Plus I think my 14 month old is going to love seeing Santa ride by on the fire truck!

  • Jen November 16, 2013, 10:26 am

    My favorite tradition is all the holiday baking and cookies to eat!

  • Brandy November 16, 2013, 10:27 am

    Christmas jammies and movies!

  • Lindsey November 16, 2013, 10:35 am

    I love opening stockings on Christmas morning!!

  • Melissa November 16, 2013, 10:38 am

    Photo cards are my favorite, too! My favorite holiday tradition on church on Christmas Eve and pajama party to follow. It’s so intimate and special!

  • Haley November 16, 2013, 10:41 am

    I love decorating the tree!1

  • Jennifer November 16, 2013, 10:50 am

    Definitely the family gatherings.

  • Rachel November 16, 2013, 10:58 am

    We always get a real tree and my favorite thing is going to pick it out at the tree farm and bringing it home! Ps- awesome giveaway, I love minted!!

  • Monique Breard November 16, 2013, 11:03 am

    My favorite tradition is decorating the tree with XMAS carols blasting, egg nog in the glass and white pretzels to snack on

  • Jen in TX November 16, 2013, 11:07 am

    Love attending church on Christmas eve and coming home to open one present.

  • Kristen ECM November 16, 2013, 11:14 am

    I love putting out cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve…carrots for the reindeer, too

  • Cassandra November 16, 2013, 11:16 am

    My favorite tradition is decoration day! My husband and I sip on slightly spiked soy egg nog. While he pulls down all of the decorating boxes, I get started on the Swiss cookies including “Zimtsterne”, which means “Cinnamon Stars”. We always play Home Alone 1 and 2 and Christmas Vacation in the background while we decorate the tree and my husband puts the lights up. We then build a fire and put silly santa hats on our two dogs and kitty and take lots of silly pictures. Then we look through the envelope I always put our photo holiday cards from years past. On the back I write my favorite memories from that year and we compare our earliest memories from being just 20 to now in our 30’s. Then we look at all of the old photo cards from family/friends that we kept and talk about how everyone has changed etc. Sorry, this was long, but decorating day is really fun!

  • Janet November 16, 2013, 11:27 am

    My favorite tradition is the Advent calendar. I have a traditional one filled with treats and activities, but recently we added a Lego Advent calendar and it’s fun to put those together with my boys.

  • Taya November 16, 2013, 11:28 am

    My favorite Christmas tradition is that my brothers and I always get new Christmas pajamas and a book on Christmas Eve. Now that I’m married, my husband and I are still continuing the tradition!

  • Laura November 16, 2013, 11:34 am

    I love the whole decorating process, inside and out. It’s so fun and festive and reminds me of all the years before. We had our first baby in October so I’m especially excited for this year.

  • Baird November 16, 2013, 11:35 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is going to a candlelight Christmas Eve service! And the next favorite would probably be going to my great-aunt’s house for Christmas eve where no one eats anything because we are all fairly certain it has been the same food for 5 years straight. 🙂 We just laugh about it and share a meal beforehand! 🙂

  • Ashley C November 16, 2013, 11:48 am

    I love getting the house completely decorated for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving!
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  • Lekki Frazier-Wood November 16, 2013, 12:00 pm

    My favorite is on the 6th December we have friends over for mince pies and mulled wine to remind me of home!

  • Molly November 16, 2013, 12:44 pm

    Chopping down the tree and decorating while drinking spiked egg nog.

  • Ann November 16, 2013, 12:52 pm

    We would love to win this giveaway. We would love to send out Christmas cards to our family and friends now that we are a family of 3.

  • Leah November 16, 2013, 1:01 pm

    I go to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving and always spend that night with them reminiscing about past holidays. The next morning we get up early and drive down the road to the local tree farm to pick out and cut down the year’s Christmas tree. Later that evening we spend time together as a family listening to Christmas music, enjoying a bottle wine and decorating the tree together. I can’t wait to do it again this year!

  • Valerie B November 16, 2013, 1:04 pm

    My favorite tradition is just getting to spend time with family who do to live close by.

  • Veronica November 16, 2013, 1:06 pm

    Picking out the tree and decorating!

  • Melanie November 16, 2013, 1:07 pm

    My favorite tradition- on Christmas Eve our family would put on our new Xmas eve pj’s (mom and dad included) and we would drive around looking at Christmas lights! So fun!

  • Erin November 16, 2013, 1:28 pm

    My favorite tradition is enjoying our egg soufflé brunch while Christmas music plays in the background 🙂

  • Sara November 16, 2013, 1:31 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is making cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!

  • Emily November 16, 2013, 1:37 pm

    My favorite tradition is decorating the house with my family!

  • Leah November 16, 2013, 1:43 pm

    My favorite tradition is adding my new Starbucks ornament to the tree!

  • Realia M November 16, 2013, 2:11 pm

    i love decorating the house! its so fun 🙂

  • Mel November 16, 2013, 2:39 pm

    My favorite tradition is exchanging Christmas stockings with my husband on Christmas morning!

  • Amy Q November 16, 2013, 2:40 pm

    The movies after dinner on Thanksgiving night!

  • Ashlee November 16, 2013, 2:48 pm

    We always start off the holiday season by watching Christmas Vacation on Thanksgiving. Once December hits we watch a Christmas movie at least 4 times a week with a big glass of hot chocolate. Can’t wait!

  • Amy Hill November 16, 2013, 2:51 pm

    My favorite is putting up the tree and decorating it!

  • Maureen November 16, 2013, 2:58 pm

    I’m a newlywed, so I’m looking forward to sending out our first holiday cards as a married couple! My favorite holiday tradition is a big breakfast on Christmas morning. I’m so excited for Christmas!

  • Amanda Hedgpeth November 16, 2013, 3:10 pm

    Our favorite holiday tradition is spending the day baking Christmas treats (cookies, fudge, treats) while listening to Christmas music, then delivering them to those we love. So excited for my son to be part of it this year! He will make the delivery part extra cute!

  • Kara November 16, 2013, 3:12 pm

    My husband and I cook all the dessert for both my family and his family gathering. I love using the mixer for hours on end and going through packages of butter. It is a wonderful feeling!

  • AB November 16, 2013, 3:15 pm

    We make caramels every year around the holidays. Time consuming but fun!

  • Shelley November 16, 2013, 3:31 pm

    Matching Christmas PJs for Christmas Eve. The whole family is involved. Corny but sweet.

  • Rachel November 16, 2013, 3:34 pm

    Exchanging gifts on Christmas Eve!!

  • MaryBeth November 16, 2013, 3:42 pm

    My favorite tradition is going over to my brother’s on Xmas Eve. He makes us the best dinner and we treat Xmas Eve night like its Christmas morning.

  • Kirsten November 16, 2013, 3:44 pm

    My husband and I have been married three years and have yet to spend Christmas together as a married couple. He is a pediatric resident and has so far always had to work on Christmas- bummer! This year will be our first to spend together and on top of it is our first one to spend together with our 13 month daughter too! For this reason we do not have any traditions of our own but am hoping to start some this year since our daughter will be able to join in as well. I really want to start a tradition of baking sugar cookies on Christmas Eve so that we can leave them for “santa” in the morning. Can’t wait to see what kind of cookies she will decorate this year 🙂

  • Courtney November 16, 2013, 3:59 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas Stockings. I love picking out little odds and ends that are cheap, but a perfect to the personality of the person receiving. I also love getting my own stocking and seeing what was chosen for me! No kids yet, but I can’t wait to have babies who are old enough to play Elf on the Shelf. I think it sounds like so much fun!

  • Krystan November 16, 2013, 3:59 pm

    My favorite tradition is Christmas eve, after church, we always drink cider and open one of our Christmas gifts.

  • Jerica November 16, 2013, 4:15 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my mom and sister. We spend hours upon hours baking cookies in the few days leading up to Christmas and then put together boxes to give to our families and friends. In a world increasingly filled with pre-made/ready-made/instant gratification items, it is really nice to spend that time together and pour our love and sweat into some home-baked goodies!

  • Kellie November 16, 2013, 4:34 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is enjoying a family Brunch on Christmas morning after everyone opens their presents. We love doing a brunch in lieu of a big dinner, since the dinners often end up being very similar to Thanksgiving dinner about a month earlier.

  • Melanie November 16, 2013, 4:35 pm

    Choosing names for our family’s secret santa on Thanksgiving and making our family’s famous fudge recipe!

  • LizP November 16, 2013, 4:44 pm

    I spend the first weekend in December every year baking Christmas cookies with my mom and grandma- my favorite holiday tradition!

  • Amanda November 16, 2013, 4:47 pm

    My favorite Christmas tradition is going Christmas shopping the day after thanksgiving with my family 🙂

  • Alexandra November 16, 2013, 4:48 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is our family’s matching Christmas pajamas! Each year my entire family (husband, parents, siblings. Grandparents cousins, dogs etc) buy matching Christmas pajamas and wear them all day on Christmas! It’s so nice not having to put clothes on!

  • Helena November 16, 2013, 4:54 pm

    Being from Sweden and living in Canada I love that we celebrate both on the 24th and the 25th and that I get to share my Swedish traditions with my friends and family here in Canada.

  • Ems November 16, 2013, 5:05 pm

    My favorite tradition is hot chocolate by the fireplace…so cozy!!

  • Alexandra November 16, 2013, 5:05 pm

    My favourite holiday tradition is Christmas Even dinner!

  • Mahdi M November 16, 2013, 5:42 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is doing Christmas stockings. We only do the for the kids now.

  • Sarah T November 16, 2013, 5:45 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition has to be matching pajamas for the family. Every year I go on the hunt looking for fun and interesting pajamas for our kids, my husband and myself. It’s a hoot waking up Christmas morning all matchy-matchy!

  • Amber November 16, 2013, 5:55 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is when my mom’s side of the family comes over to the house on Xmas Eve, and we all drink and be merry!

  • Tracy November 16, 2013, 6:10 pm

    I love that my husband’s family celebrates on Christmas Eve and my family does Christmas morning! It woks out perfectly!

  • Alex November 16, 2013, 6:15 pm

    There are so many fun traditions, from the stocking stuffers to the yummy food to getting everyone together at grandma’s. But the past few years I have been loving the tradition of pre-Christmas brunches and ornament exchanges with girlfriends. We get these events on the calendar early so everyone can make it!

  • Mandi November 16, 2013, 6:22 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is making posole and tamales for Christmas Eve dinner, then going to midnight mass the entire family!

  • Carter G November 16, 2013, 6:31 pm

    My favorite tradition… is food shared with family and friends! My mom’s coffee cake, breakfast casserole on Christmas morning, Christmas bourbon punch, and more. 🙂

  • Kelly November 16, 2013, 6:39 pm

    It’s a tie for me between:
    1) My parents wrapping up pajamas for my sisters and I and putting them outside our door on Christmas morning. We weren’t allowed to come out until we were in our matching PJs! (Side note: yes, we still wear matching PJs EVERY YEAR, even though we’re adults now haha!)

    and

    2) We ALWAYS open the stockings first, then break for breakfast (always something indulgent like homemade waffles or pancakes and bacon!), and then we continue with the gifts, each opening one at a time and rotating… to make the gifts last longer!

    Now I can’t wait for the holidays! I hope I win!

  • ErikaMC November 16, 2013, 6:56 pm

    I love most holiday traditions but my favorite is driving around and looking at lights.

  • Lindsey Gail November 16, 2013, 7:03 pm

    My holiday traditions have changed so much over the years, particularly with the inclusion of in-laws, but sending and receiving cards always remains the same… and a little bit of cheer trickles in every day!

  • Susan - Nurse on the Run November 16, 2013, 7:08 pm

    I love making holiday cards every year…and better yet, hearing from friends and family via old fashioned mail!

    My favorite holiday tradition is sticking the sticky bows that you put on wrapped presents onto my dad’s shirt…he’s covered with them by the end of the present opening, and we usually stick extra on the presents just so he has more to wear.

  • Caroline November 16, 2013, 7:27 pm

    Gingerbread cookie decorating part with friends – we have one every year and probably eat more of the dough than is actually used to make cookies, but hey, we have fun!

  • Cate November 16, 2013, 7:28 pm

    We used to always come home from Christmas Eve candlelight service to open a present, which was always new pajamas, which we would wear that night and for the present opening and pictures on Christmas morning.

  • Jen November 16, 2013, 7:28 pm

    I used to love watching Christmas shows with my twin sister – Charlie Brown, The Grinch that Stole Christmas, Home Alone – even as young adults we loved it. While stringing lights and going out for walks bundled up in the chilly air just to see the houses lit up. Those days will always be sitting in my aching heart from now on.

    Peace.

  • Lisa November 16, 2013, 7:57 pm

    I make my kids take a picture with Santa every year, even though they are 16, 14, and 11

  • Carrie C. in VA November 16, 2013, 8:06 pm

    My fave tradition is new pajamas on Christmas eve

  • Amelia November 16, 2013, 8:20 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is the party we have every Christmas eve with family. We spend all day cooking delicious appetizers and have an enormous spread of delicious food to enjoy with family that evening after church. It makes for amazing left overs for the rest of the week too when everyone is tired from the holiday festivities!

  • Heather November 16, 2013, 8:23 pm

    my favorite holiday tradition is staying up late with my siblings on Christmas eve. Even though the youngest of our clan is 21, we still get giddy like school children if we hear mom and dad stir in the very early morning hours. [also; i LOVE minted!]

  • Kelly November 16, 2013, 8:30 pm

    Letting my kids (who are now both in high school) skip school to stay home and make christmas cookies with me.

  • Morgan November 16, 2013, 8:45 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is making sugar cookies and pairing them on Christmas Eve!

  • sal November 16, 2013, 8:51 pm

    I love driving around on Christmas eve looking at lights and listening to carols in the car with my family. and we always go to a movie on christmas day!

  • Maria November 16, 2013, 8:52 pm

    I “married into” my favorite holiday tradition: tortellini making! Before my husband’s grandmother passed away, she would gather all of her grandchildren together shortly before Christmas and put them all to work making handmade, hand folded meat tortellini with her family recipe from Northern Italy. The family would eat the tortellini in chicken broth as the highlight of their Christmas meal. Since she passed, the family has kept her memory alive by gathering together the day after thanksgiving and making the tortellini. My husband and his brother go over first thing in the morning to cook at the different ingredients and make the filling and dough, and the rest of us join in at noon. My husband cranks and cuts the pasta, and the rest of us sit around the kitchen table for hours hand folding the tortellini. When we’re done, we order out Chinese food and freeze the tortellini until Christmas day! I love that the tradition links Thanksgiving and Christmas, and also links the past and present of the whole family. While our daughter is too young to help, at six years old our oldest niece is already learning to hand form tortellini the way her great grandmother did!

  • Alisha November 16, 2013, 9:05 pm

    My favorite tradition is “Santa” coming to visit & all the little cousins sitting on his lap.

  • kathleen November 16, 2013, 9:20 pm

    definitely christmas cookie baking with my family!
    i LOVE receiving photo holiday cards! can’t wait to check out minted.

  • Lucia November 16, 2013, 9:27 pm

    So many good traditions but my favorite is getting a tree and decorating the house the weekend after Thanksgiving. Can’t wait to actually include my son this year!! And I’m so sorry about Pippa, but it’ll make you smile looking back on that card, she was such a great family member!

  • jan November 16, 2013, 9:31 pm

    Staying in our PJ’s all day!!

  • Chelsea Skinner November 16, 2013, 9:34 pm

    It is so hard to pick! I love the moment you turn off all the lights & switch on the tree.. But I also love baking a ton of delicious treats and sharing them with family. Family time is what it’s all about!!

    I love Minted.com too!! I was just looking at their holiday cards last night!

  • chrissy November 16, 2013, 9:48 pm

    My favorite Christmas tradition, well one of them, is new pj’s for all on Christmas Eve!

  • Ashley S. November 16, 2013, 10:13 pm

    We go up to Maine to my husband’s grandparents house for thanksgiving every year. They have a small Christmas tree farm, so after dinner, we go out and choose our own Christmas tree, cut it down, and bring it home. 🙂

  • susan November 16, 2013, 10:21 pm

    sending out holiday cards!!

  • Kristen November 16, 2013, 10:26 pm

    Singing carols (with instruments) with my family on Christmas Eve!

  • Amy November 16, 2013, 10:41 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is picking out gifts and watching my loved ones smile as they open them. I love watching others happy

  • Cathy November 16, 2013, 10:42 pm

    My favorite tradition is probably going to see the christmas lights and the christmas crafts 🙂

  • Amelia November 16, 2013, 10:57 pm

    Covering my home in fairy lights

  • Sarah November 16, 2013, 11:42 pm

    Every year my hometown has a Christmas pageant with free bags of candy and a visit from Santa afterwards!

  • Elizabeth November 17, 2013, 12:21 am

    Mine is our holiday party. So much fun and great to see my large extended family!

  • Alex November 17, 2013, 1:02 am

    Flying the family to Oklahoma to visit my parents. So much fun!!

  • Kristen November 17, 2013, 1:31 am

    I always liked baking cookies to leave out for Santa.

  • Alicia November 17, 2013, 2:08 am

    I love just being together with family.

  • Erika November 17, 2013, 4:41 am

    My favorite tradition, is sitting around the table with family, all wearing Christmas hats that came from the crackers! Can’t beat it

  • Lauren F November 17, 2013, 5:47 am

    I give my kids a new pair of Christmas pjs on
    Christmas Eve to wear in anticipation of the big guy’s arrival.

  • Jessica D November 17, 2013, 7:07 am

    I love the tradition of decorating the house and feeling the anticipation of what is to come!

  • Andrea November 17, 2013, 7:55 am

    My favorite tradition is decorating the tree!

  • Sara C. November 17, 2013, 7:57 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is picking out the Christmas tree. It marks the beginning of the Christmas season for us, and we know that our home will soon be turned in to a winter wonderland!

  • Megan November 17, 2013, 8:01 am

    Listening to all of Manheim Steamrollers Christmas albums!

  • Jenny November 17, 2013, 8:19 am

    On Christmas morning my brother, SIL, and I crawl into my parents’ bed (despite being ages 28-32) and drink coffee and eat cinnamon rolls. It makes me feel so close to my family and I love the simple intimacy of sharing a big blanket and conversation.

  • Elaine November 17, 2013, 8:22 am

    I love putting up the tree every year with my family. We love picking out our real tree and then decking it out with lights and ornaments.

  • Josie November 17, 2013, 8:49 am

    My favorite holiday tradition every year is decorating our tree!

  • Beth November 17, 2013, 9:01 am

    Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve and cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!

  • Casey November 17, 2013, 9:08 am

    I always watch It’s a Wonderful Life with my dad on Christmas Eve. One of my favorite movies of all time 🙂

  • Laura November 17, 2013, 9:22 am

    My fiance’ is both incredibly private and sentimental and started our very first tradition last year when he made us exchange gifts early on December 23rd. It was so annoying. He was antsy, I was distracted and excited about a new job. I thought he was bizarre for wanting Christmas so early, but went along with it despite my annoyance and learned why when he got down on one knee. He then declared, as he tends to do, that we will celebrate Christmas on our own every December 23rd, as a sweet time for us outside of Holiday/family craziness.

    As we get to Wedding time though {March 2o14}, I get crazier and he gets more upset about this whole shebang – he’s only doing it because my family and I want a big wedding. Plus, we’ve had a very difficult year.

    Thus, I’ve decided to surprise him with a private wedding on our Christmas. We’ll simply step away from festivities and have a day to ourselves, away from work, family, etc and just focus on each other.

    • Caitlin November 18, 2013, 9:02 am

      Happy wedding!!!!

  • Nikki November 17, 2013, 9:25 am

    Baking cookies

  • Liz November 17, 2013, 9:35 am

    My favorite Christmas tradition is one my family has done as long as I can remember. Growing up in south louisiana EVERYTHING is centered around food so Christmas is no different. We would gather around my grandparents’ old wooden table (which now sits in our breakfast area in our home!) and enjoy a huge pot of gumbo- and it’s not real gumbo unless you’ve got filet and boiled eggs in it! 🙂 then we would light a fire and open gifts and finish our night by lighting luminaries to light the way for Santa to find our home! I now live in Texas with my family and our son was 3 weeks old at Christmas last year so we couldn’t travel. Our family came to us- Bryan hot sausage for the gumbo in tow- and the scene described above took place in my own adult kitchen! If you can’t tell Christmas means the world to me and I would love some of these amazing cards to share with our family and friends!!

  • Abigail November 17, 2013, 9:36 am

    Mine is baking over 1000 cookies with my family each year!

  • Karen November 17, 2013, 9:40 am

    My favorite Christmas tradition is sitting by the Christmas tree with hot chocolate and listening to Christmas music. I am excited to start some new traditions with my almost 18 month old this year 🙂

  • Katherine November 17, 2013, 9:45 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is going skiing every year with the family in Colorado! 🙂

  • jen November 17, 2013, 9:52 am

    Making cookies!!!

  • Ali November 17, 2013, 10:08 am

    My favorite holiday tradition was always decorating the tree. I’m back in the US for Christmas for the first time in 6 years after living overseas and am VERY excited to decorate my tree.

  • Michelle C. November 17, 2013, 10:24 am

    Drinking baileys by the tree after Christmas dinner

  • Barbie November 17, 2013, 10:55 am

    My favorite holiday tradition was counting Christmas lights on the wAy to my grandparents house on Christmas Eve.

  • Emily November 17, 2013, 10:57 am

    I have so many favorite holiday traditions, especially now that my daughter is old enough (3.5) to be excited about them! Putting up the tree, driving around to see Christmas lights, and waking up Christmas morning to cinnamon rolls!

  • Whitney November 17, 2013, 10:59 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is making homemade nuts and chocolates to give as gifts to friends and family.

  • kristind November 17, 2013, 11:32 am

    I love opening one present on New Years Eve and also getting brand new pajamas to wear and wake up in on Christmas Day. Looking forward to starting our own traditions with our kids in the future!

  • Jen November 17, 2013, 11:51 am

    Making (and eating) fresh latkes with my daughters.

  • jen November 17, 2013, 11:57 am

    Baking! I took over my mom’s duties, and think she enjoys the rest and the cakes and cookies! I want to use this gift card for my wedding invitations.

  • Kelsie Johnson November 17, 2013, 12:07 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is the midnight Christmas Eve service at my grandmother’s church. The candle lights give me chills every year!

  • Stephanie November 17, 2013, 12:21 pm

    I love baking cookies with my mom and grandma and sharing them with neighbors and friends!

  • Sarah W. November 17, 2013, 1:21 pm

    My favorite is eating the foods from our heritage (Scandenavian) on Christmas Eve. We eat Swedish meatballs and Lefsa.

  • Sorayya November 17, 2013, 1:25 pm

    Definitely drinking hot cocoa while listening to Kenny G and decorating the tree!

  • Marissa November 17, 2013, 1:27 pm

    Baking (and eating!) Christmas cookies!

  • Molly November 17, 2013, 1:57 pm

    I love having a traditional Texas-Mexican tamale-making party! It’s one of the best parts of the holiday season!
    Loads of fun!

  • Dana November 17, 2013, 2:05 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas morning breakfast and mimosas at my inlaws.

  • Amanda November 17, 2013, 2:17 pm

    Every Christmas Eve, my family makes a supper where we each take a part of the meal and make it ourselves. We usually pick a type of cuisine or specific ingredient to use throughout the meal.

  • Sara November 17, 2013, 2:18 pm

    I love shopping for others! And seeing the looks on their faces when they open the perfect present!

  • Meg November 17, 2013, 2:33 pm

    Mine is beginning to listen to Christmas music on the drive home after Thanksgiving, and not a minute before!

  • shelly November 17, 2013, 2:45 pm

    I love Chritmas eve dinner traditions, and dancing around the tree singing carols. My children are young and i look forward to creating more traditions.

  • Alex @ Kenzie Life November 17, 2013, 3:41 pm

    I’m sorry it’s hard to see Pippa’s name on the card 🙁 But the card itself is beautiful and you all look so beautiful! I LOVE your hair! My favorite tradition is decorating…in college my roommate and I would put on Elf and Christmas music and eat moose munch and decorate our dorm with lights and a little 12 inch fake tree. It was such a nice way to spend an evening before the finals craziness!

  • Nicole November 17, 2013, 4:15 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is waking up on Christmas morning and eating left over Italian spinach pizza for breakfast with my family — we have been doing this for over 10 years and it’s always a delicious treat 😉

  • alan November 17, 2013, 4:20 pm

    Rare non-Christian here:
    I am a doctor who loves to work on Xmas so that my Christian colleagues can have off to celebrate with their families. My tradition is to go to work on Xmas day (then I have to give the typical shout out to Chinese food and movies).

    For the other holiday at this time of year: Making latkes in a cast iron pan with towels strewn all over the floor so it doesn’t become an oily mess, then digging in with applesauce and sourcream. Yum. And it’s next week!! Happy Thanksgivukkah everybody.

  • Tabitha T. November 17, 2013, 4:32 pm

    We always head to my mom and dad’s house for breakfast on Christmas morning. We have cheese stolen and other breakfast goodies. Then we open presents and spend the morning together before we all have to run off for other Christmas celebrations.

  • sara November 17, 2013, 5:36 pm

    My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree while sipping hot chocolate and listening to Christmas music!

  • Amanda November 17, 2013, 5:54 pm

    I love big meals with family!

  • Laura November 17, 2013, 6:24 pm

    My favorite tradition is opening stockings first thing on Christmas morning.

  • Dione November 17, 2013, 6:30 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is making tamales at my grandparents’ house. Our family is loud and crazy but so much fun!

  • Megan November 17, 2013, 6:33 pm

    On Christmas morning, we would always get to open our stocking presents. Then my mom would make a large breakfast and after we ate, we got to open all the presents under the tree. I didn’t like it when I was little, but I came to love the tradition and hope to continue it on with my family.

  • cw November 17, 2013, 6:46 pm

    Love cutting down the xmas tree and decorating it while listening to music and drinking cocoa

  • lmm831 November 17, 2013, 7:15 pm

    Baking is my favorite part of the holidays

  • Jess November 17, 2013, 7:48 pm

    On Christmas Eve, my whole family piles into the car and we drive around town looking at Christmas lights. We make a point to slow down, ooo and aaaah, and go back to the same particularly good spots year after year. It’s a great way to spend time together before the chaos of Christmas day 🙂

  • Kelli Jamison November 17, 2013, 7:50 pm

    I love Christmas Eve. We give everyone in our family a different book from the stack of books we read during the year.

  • Lily November 17, 2013, 8:51 pm

    My fave tradition is watching Home alone and drinking mulled wine on Christmas Eve!

  • Louise November 17, 2013, 8:52 pm

    Wow, I have so many favorite holiday traditions. I’ve actually missed out on these recently, but when I was growing up, I really enjoyed picking out a real tree, decorating the tree while drinking egg nog, and new PJ’s on christmas eve.

  • Yadi November 17, 2013, 9:00 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is getting all the Christmas decorations up the day after Thanksgiving and listening to Christmas music while doing so 🙂

  • Kelli November 17, 2013, 9:37 pm

    My favorite tradition unfolds on Christmas Day where someone has to do a scavenger hunt to find their Christmas present. You never know who will be that year’s victim, but it’s always so fun to watch!

  • Elizabeth November 17, 2013, 9:38 pm

    We always watch ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ on Christmas Eve!

  • Amber @ Busy, Bold, Blessed November 17, 2013, 9:42 pm

    We sent out Christmas cards last year for the first time. I’ve never done photo cards, but we just got our engagement photos back and it seems like a waste not to use them 🙂 Can’t believe Christmas is just around the corner. My favorite tradition is eating homemade pierogies with my family on Christmas Eve!

  • Leanna November 17, 2013, 10:19 pm

    Our favorite Christmas tradition is cutting down our own tree, we started it when we got married and have included our dogs and children in the day. It’s a lot of fun!

  • Lauren November 17, 2013, 10:40 pm

    I still love decorating the house with my mom even though I’m married and have my own home. I have so many great memories of watching Christmas movies while bringing holiday cheer into the home through decorations!

  • Jessica November 17, 2013, 10:55 pm

    I think it’s great that Pippa’s name is on the card..she was a part of your family this past year..the picture is cute of your family. 🙂

  • Cathy November 17, 2013, 10:59 pm

    Watching Christmas Movies while decorating the tree!

  • Angela November 17, 2013, 10:59 pm

    My favorite is Christmas Eve, just spending tons of quality time with my big crazy family. 🙂

  • lauren November 17, 2013, 11:00 pm

    Spending time on Christmas day with my family or my husband’s family.

  • Claire November 17, 2013, 11:01 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is a relatively new one. For our christmas dinner each person prepares a course and we compete to see who is the best chef in the family. In between courses we open presents.

  • Amanda November 17, 2013, 11:16 pm

    My favorite holiday tradition is a new one that I’ve built with my husband. I had a weird home situation after the age of 10, and we didn’t really decorate for Christmas. Until I was 18 and on my own, Christmas was not a decorating occasion. But every year, now, my husband and I spend the better part of a day putting up the tree, and decorating the house. I hope it’s something I am able to give my own kids someday, too.

  • Amanda November 18, 2013, 12:26 am

    one of my favorite traditions is homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning followed by staying in our pj’s the whole day to play with our new toys 🙂

  • Kerry November 18, 2013, 1:02 am

    My favorite holiday tradition has to be the HUGE brunch we have on Christmas day with my grandparents, all of us in our pajamas! It puts us in such a good mood for opening presents. Oh, and we always listen to Bing Crosby’s Christmas album and other classic holiday music. So fun. I can’t believe it’s almost here!

  • melissa newell November 18, 2013, 6:16 am

    My favorite tradition is that the family all has to get up at 1 time…we are allowed to check our stockings out and the 1 gift that Santa left the children. Then we make cinnamon buns and all eat. After that we open presents 1 by 1 until all of them are opened and everyone can see what everyone gets! It’s been the tradition since I was a baby and I am now 45 and carry it on with our children.

  • Vera K November 18, 2013, 7:04 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is making a crazy gingerbread house with my kids.

  • Hope @ With A Side Of Hope November 18, 2013, 8:17 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is lighting the candles on the menorah with my family.

  • Shanna November 18, 2013, 8:34 am

    We have a great tradition of gathering the family for cookie day. 10 hours of baking and sampling cookies and hopefully having enough to take some home!

  • Faith November 18, 2013, 9:14 am

    I would love, love, love to enter! My boyfriend actually got me started on my fave holiday tradition. When he was growing up, he and his Aunt would make sugar cookies with a special Christmas cookie press. Now that she has passed away, he still breaks out that press every year and does it “in memory” of her…and I always feel warm and fuzzy to be included in this tradition that was clearly so important to him.

  • Amanda @ Sistas of Strength November 18, 2013, 9:32 am

    We are starting some new traditions since it’s the first year that our son will really “get it” and I am so so so excited! We’re figuring out what movies we’ll watch every year and I can’t wait to see him open his presents this year!

  • HeatherFromKC November 18, 2013, 9:35 am

    We love going to check out the local Christmas lights, we have done this since I was a little kid with my grandparents. Now we do with with my son, it is always so much fun.

  • Katie November 18, 2013, 9:44 am

    I love listening to Christmas music on Thanksgiving morning… it is the first day I listen to it- I refuse to turn it on any earlier in the year! I have done it since I was little we would turn it on loud in the car on the way to my Grandma’s house and sing as loud as we could! Ah I can’t wait!

  • kai November 18, 2013, 9:44 am

    picking out gifts for everyone

  • Kristina November 18, 2013, 9:52 am

    Putting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving. 🙂

  • Allie A. November 18, 2013, 9:52 am

    My favorite holiday tradition is getting out all the decorations and going to get our real tree. I love to put it up and decorate it 🙂

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