What's your Christmas Tradition or Traditions?

Both my husband and I come from very close knit families therefore our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day is filled with tons of family and crazy fun gatherings. Now here it goes:

Christmas Eve is such a big day for us, most Hispanic families celebrate this day and Christmas Day is more chill. So we go to my family on Christmas Eve and eat lots of Tamales like my grandma used to make them and enjoy our time together! This is an all day event and usually begins around noon. 

My husbands side of the family also has a big Christmas Eve gathering before the annual Christmas hayride (my favorite). Unfortunately, because we are with my family only for Christmas Eve and are with my hubby's family on Christmas Day we always usually miss Christmas Eve dinner at in laws. So in the evening around 6 ish we load up and drive across town for the hayride. The "hayride" is a flat bed trailer attached to a truck. I would say "we" but I think I have only helped a few times, they decorate the trailer with Christmas lights and straw bales and on Christmas Eve we drive around town on the trailer singing Christmas carols and looking at Christmas lights. It's such a wonderful thing to know that my girls will always grow up with this tradition! This lasts about a couple hours then we head back to my parents house!

We hang out at my parents house until midnight, because ever since I was young and again coming back to the Hispanic culture, we open our gifts at midnight. My girls only get a gift from us, if they stay up!

(Somewhere in between the hayride and parents house, I would like to start going to a Christmas Eve mass. Hoping we could make it this year!)

After that, we come home and wait until Christmas morning to open our gifts. Santa also delivers his Christmas present to the girls which come unwrapped. 

Loved Taylor's reaction last year, CANNOT wait for this years reaction since she has really been in the Christmas spirit! 

Christmas morning the girls will open all the gifts we have for them and might head on over to my in laws to take them their gifts. 

Christmas Day we will also go to my husbands Aunt and uncle's house for Christmas dinner, the kids will open more gifts and the grown ups will have a Christmas basket exchange! 

Oh what fun it is to have so much family and love during the holidays! 

Now on to finish my girls headbands, last minute wrapping and some orders! 

Don't forget :

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PS. Are you looking for the perfect holiday drink? On Thursday I hosted Bunco at my casa and had an alcohol exchange. I was lucky number 12 which means that I could practically steal any one's alcohol unless it had already been stolen 3 times. To make this story short I ended with a bottle of 

(Sorry for the blurry picture) RumChata! If you like the drink Horchata, you will absolutely love this! I have mixed this with Fireball and it's amazing. Even more amazing is this with Malibu Rum. Prepare to be addicted if you try it! You can find this bottle anywhere! We had to buy some more for the holidays and found it at Walmart! 

 

 

Also, a new better deal is coming up on Groopdealz.com on the 29th! These will only be $5.99! So mark your calendars NOW! Don't forget to head on over to Groopdealz.com for thes awesome headbands!

- Stacey