christmas cookie decorating is a tradition my family started last year.
we decided to start doing this INSTEAD of walking around in freezing cold temperatures looking at christmas lights at temple square. trust me, after 25 years of doing the temple square lights, i knew what it was all about and i can say i don’t miss that tradition a bit.
the cookie tradition was my idea. and it is much warmer. and it’s fun!
some of the finished products~
aren’t my niece and nephews cute? momma b is too, of course.
speaking of nephews.. remember my lil’ nephew greyson who was in the ICU back in october? well, look how big he is getting! i love him.
here he is with his momma, lindsay. my sis in law.
look at that face!
my other sister’s baby, ben, is only a month older than grey but he is basically double his size.
look at those cheeks!
the pups were at the cookie festivities too…
but only because i couldn’t leave them home alone. i came home to yet ANOTHER mess yesterday.
remember those cute cookie mix jars i made? well, i came home to this:
ugh. seriously?! how did randy pull them all off the counter?!
and i am sure they ate PLENTY of chocolate chips. baaaad dogs.
moving on.
winner of giveaway #10 (the cutting boards) is:
congrats, jenn!! send me your address and i will send you the boards. thanks for playing, everyone.
and now, onto today’s giveaway…
one for onions, one for peppers.
i thought these were so rad! i picked them up at TJ maxx. and i am going to give the pair to one of you.
to enter:
- leave a comment telling me a family tradition you have.
i will randomly announce the winner when i get back from snowboarding today.
check ya later! merry christmas eve!
xo. janetha g.
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family get together and watch movies!
We have a family tradition of buying each child a new ornament that summarizes or has something to do with their past year. We save them in each kids personal ornament box. When they grow up they will have a small start for their own tree. My folks did the same for my sis and I and to this day I LOVE going back over all my ornaments and sharing their significance.
happy Holidays!
How do short legged dogs get in SO much trouble? Do they use a step ladder? ha
B/c our kids were born in Idaho and we lived there for 8 yrs we make tater sop with heavy cream, bacon drippings, cheese/crackers and REAL GLASS bottled cokes! My kids think that is tops b/c of real sugar cokes(from Costco)! Enjoy your holidays!
Cute photos fun night!!
We do clam chowder every Christmas Eve……appetizers rolls and Nielsen’s Custard —–now there’s something to blog about!! :)
I reeeealy need these cute gizmos!
Even though I am 18 years old, I still come down the steps on Christmas morning to find my stocking under the tree…and usually my mom still films and takes pictures. It’s not as fun since my older brother and sister aren’t there to see their stockings with me, but it’s still tradition. I am sure one of these days soon (when I am out of college), I won’t be doing it anymore. So, I might as well cherish it while it lasts. :)
We still do that too :) I’m the youngest of 4 at 27 yrs old. My mom still does that!
family tradition…
open presents from the family xmas eve
then xmas morning is ONLY presents from santa. which are never wrapped. santa has no time for that.
congrats to jenn & the boards!
OMG I cannot believe little devil dog randy!!! how did he mange to do that! haha I remember my dog once climed up and ate 2 lbs of chicken (RAW) we took him right to the vet to get all of that bad stuff out of him!
anyways, MERRY XMAS to you and your family! xoxoxo
Cookie decorating looks like fun! And I’m pretty amazed that Randy managed to get those jars down from the shelf.
My extended family gets together on Christmas Eve. Usually we do a Yankee Swap, but we always eat good food, drink delicious drinks, and just enjoy each others’ company. My uncle usually puts together a photo/video slideshow with pictures and movies from Christmases past and so we get to hear a lot of stories from when my mom, aunts, and uncles were all younger. It’s generally the same stories year in and year out but they’re always fun to hear.
Merry Christmas!
We always go to a Christmas Eve service then come home to listen to Christmas music & eat a nice dinner!
Ahhhhhh! All of them are too cute but I want to pinch Ben’s cheeks!
We go to a movie and the casino on Xmas. We sound classy huh?
our traditions are basically related to what food goes on the table! (and of course meeting family and exchanging gifts)
I WILL win this one ;)
One tradition we have is to go to a movie on christmas day after dinner. We are going to see that new Fockers movie tomorrow. LOL.
A Christmas tradition my family has is getting each member of the family new pajamas on Christmas Eve along with bubble bath!
I love taking Christmas eve baths and reading a Christmas book…really gets you in the holiday mood!
Our Christmas Eve dinner is always Chili and tamales!!! YUM!!
We always, always, always have creme de menthe cake for dessert. Every year! It’s super yummy.
every year on christmas eve, my sisters and i receive a new pair of pjs from my mom. we put them on and hang up our stockings (with care). :)
You’ve got to set up a video camera for the dog shenanigans. Seriously.
My family would always drive around and look at lights (warm car heater FTW) and then open one gift on xmas eve. And then we would eat our weight in boiled shrimp on Christmas. :)
Christmas Eve dinner and heavy drinking!
We make our own pizza’s on Christmas eve and then have rootbeer floats while we watch a Christmas movie. So fun! Merry Christmas :)
We have a Christmas Eve Hold ‘Em tournament! Winner gets $100!!!
Your nieces and nephews are darling. And your mom is beautiful! (Have I told you that she looks SO familiar to me?) I love the tradition of making cookies with the family. I think my fam should too that too…although maybe it would be too crazy with like a dozen nieces/nephews or whatever count we’re at now.
Our tradition is to have a Christmas program on Christmas eve. The kiddos do the nativity, my mom and I play a musical number (me-piano, her-flute) and my dad read’s the story from the bible. I’m sad I’m missing it this year! Thanks for helping me reminisce though! :)
Merry Christmas Eve! <3
we also decorate cookies on christmas!
Every Christmas we get 3 new ornaments (for me and my two brothers) and we have a big Christmas morning breakfast but not before we read the birth story of Jesus :)
Every year I have to remind everyone that if there was anything I wanted for Christmas I would have already bought it myself
Our family tradition is to open 1 present on Christmas Eve. My sister and I look forward to that every year!
We have sparkling apple juice, but we drink it out of wine glasses every Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner! It’s our lame tradition lol
Every Christmas Eve we have a seafood feast. My nonna used to be in charge of it, but now my mom and I take the lead (but nonna still makes the fresh pasta for our sauce!!!)
Merry Christmas Janetha!!!
since my family is jewish we always get together for chinese food on christmas eve (i know, such a stereotype!), but it’s always fun and involves good food!
we always wake up on Christmas morning to fresh-out-of-the-oven sticky buns (kind of like cinnamon rolls) that my wonderful mother has made (:
every year we decorate a giant tree in our backyard and it lights up at night. everyone in our town loves it :)
merry christmas!
Our tradition is to stay up really late on Christmas Eve an then wake up early on Christmas Day!
we eat or make homemade pizza on christmas eve!
Every Christmas Eve we have a traditional Polish dinner at my aunt’s house – this gives us lots of fuel for gift opening on Christmas morning. Merry Christmas!
my family bakes and decorates cookies during the holiday season too, this year my mom and i probably made at least 10 different kinds! i always help in the kitchen too, gotta love that tradition (:
my family watches a christmas story on christmas eve (hi tbs marathon) and then on christmas day we open presents and sit down to a nice big breakfast
Every Christmas Morning we open up our presents one by one and for just the 4 of us (plus our pets lol) it takes like 3 hours, but we LOVE it. It’s our fave 3 hours of the year :). My fave part isn’t getting my own presents, but watching everyone else open theirs and seeing how much they love them. I LOVE picking out presents.
My Mom still leaves out presents from Santa for my brother and I to wake up to on Christmas morning…and I’m 25:)
My hubby and I sleep next to the Chirstmas tree on Christmas eve, watch A Christmas Story, and then in the morning make each other wait in the bedroom while we set out our Chirstmas presents for a surprise!
We make the same Roasted Fig Glaze Salmon on Christmas day each year, and it’s amazing! My family all looks forward to it, and it’s a nice way of bringing us all together
Our Christmas tradition was walking through the Christmas lights with my father on Christmas Eve in McAdenville, NC (known as “Christmastown”). This year, we are in California and can’t go home because we spent all the money we saved up going home for my dad’s funeral in October. First Christmas away from home and without dad….and there are no Christmas lights here. My husband and I are keeping positive and thinking of new traditions to start. (It’s not quite as cold in NC as in Utah;)
Since I’m Jewish, our family tradition is to see a movie and eat Chinese food on Christmas. We always run into all the other Jews in town, too!
cookies! it used to be a family thing. now it’s a my job thing. they just enjoy the fruits of my labor.
One of our biggest holiday traditions is we celebrate everything on Christmas Eve, always have. church, special dinner, gifts.
We also have a holiday family day in a town between where parents and where my sister and I live, that’s always the first Saturday of December
Christmas day, we have a turkey lunch/dinner. Maybe even go to the movies.
my sister and i always get to open one gift from our parents on christmas eve- matching pajama pants : )
The Boy and I made our own tradition: no gifts, just stocking stuffers. That way we get lots of little treats and toys, and no big stuff taking up room in our teeny weeny Brooklyn apartment. We also do a stocking for our dog, and I swear, she gets ALL the coolest gifts.
Some family traditions we have are shopping for a Christmas tree together. This year my sister and I left the kids at home with the hubs and tagged along with our parents to get their tree. Then a few days later we put our kids to bed and headed to the rents house to decorate it. It is always a lot of fun to see all the decorations from when we were kids.
My mom plays flute professionally, so every Christmas Eve we do a marathon of church services. It can get tedious, but it’s actually really refreshing to hop around from party to service and back again. Plus it gives me a lot of time to think good thoughts!
One of our traditions is to get super wasted and fight with each other on Christmas Eve. Oh, and someone has to fall.
my family and I always watch “a christmas story”. i think my nephew wants a new tradition which is watching starwars on chrismas day. we did it last year, and he is already talking about it!
Ryan and I are trying to start our own traditions. :) We put up our first tree this year. And we have our stockings. :)
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