I am so excited to be participating in Molly and Aly’s 12 days of Christmas Blog Challenge! You should link up too!!!
Day 1 is Christmas/Holiday Traditions:
Well I will break this up for ya with the different traditions I have:
Neely/Mommy Christmas traditions:
Christmas Eve we watch All I want for Christmas with Thora Birch. We have been watching it for roughly 20 years….its a fav of ours
Christmas Day we do presents when I get home from my dad and stepmoms and then we go see a movie. We alternate who picks the movie each year. Last year we saw Its Complicated. Last year we also saw a movie Christmas Eve because it was snowing…
Then we have dinner and watch more movies
Neely/Dad/Stepmom traditions:
I go over to their house for Xmas brunch and we eat with my stepmoms parents and then we do presents. We alternate opening them so it tends to take about 2 hours. Then I chat with them and we watch A Christmas Story and then I go home to my momma
Neely/Chad traditions:
These are new because last year was our first Christmas together so we now have a few that we have decided will be yearly….
1. My all time Neely tradition of looking at the Christmas lights around highland park. I have done this with my family and my friends for years and last year was Chads first time to see them and I got to take him 🙂
The singing bears is always a favorite: Fun fact the house this is at is the house of the women that the education school at SMU is named after…
We bought a tree together last year(my first fake tree) and we decided we would get general ornaments and then every year we would each pick out a special ornament and we’d pick one out together.
This was mine last year:
And these are pics of the tree in process
Tradition 3 the present tradition:
Last year we made lists and we also picked each other out some surprise gifts but this year we will be exchanging them Christmas Eve not 2 weeks prior…ahem…Chad! JK that was me too! He is getting some great stuff this year too hehe.
Some other traditions:
Ally and Drews gingerbread house making party
Bar night with friends
Northpark Mall decorations
Watching The Holiday, Love Actually, Home Alone(1 and 2) Santa Clause and Elf over and over until Christmas.
Hope you guys enjoyed hearing about my traditions 🙂
We give each other an ornament every year and now Colt gets one too. The ornaments are starting to add up!! I love traditions. It gives us something to look forward to!
Love all your traditions, especially the ornament one! We do that with the girls and they love it!
Hope you have a fab day girl!
Fun traditions! Josh and I do an ornament every year too!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Love your traditions—I watch Elf year round. It’s a favorite of mine! 🙂
So special for you and Chad to start your own traditions! Glenn’s family always goes to see a movie on Christmas Day too!
We get each other ornaments too! i love the tradition. And I don’t think I’ve seen this Thora Birch movie.
You crack me up girlie! Love your traditions, the singing bears look so cute! Love the Christmas Ornament Tradition we do the same one, girl eventually you will have a whole tree full of them and my hubs insists we keep them in the original boxes so that is fun putting them up and taking them down LOL
xoxo
Summer
You have some great traditions! We are going to make our first gingerbread house this year! I also love riding around looking at Christmas lights!!!!
My Mom and I watch Elf every year – well, only for the last few years! LOOOVE IT! 🙂 I can honestly say, I’ve never seen All I want for Christmas!
We should make a friendly wager with the Cowboys/Colts game in 2 weeks! 🙂
Oh I can’t wait for all of those movies Elf, Love Actually, The Holiday, Home ALone, etc. to be on TV….LOVE them all!
Love the traditions! My mom, sister, boyfriend, brother & I have been trying to find a new tradition for Christmas day, and maybe instead of dinner we’ll do a movie! 🙂
Your tree is adorable. I love driving around to look at the Christmas lights in the neighborhood!
I am your newest follower 🙂
Love the Christmas tree pictures 🙂 All of these posts are getting me sooo pumped for the holidays. I’m a huge sucker for opening presents early too– stick to it and wait until Christmas this year!! 😉
thanks so much for following! im following you as well and I can’t wait to read more of your blog!
All your traditions sound so fun! I really like the ornament shopping/exchange idea, maybe I’ll have to try that….and you have mentioned THE best xmas movies, home alone & Santa Claus, lol!