My family has a Christmas party on Christmas Eve at my uncle's house. When we lived in Iowa, we would do Christmas Eve/Christmas with my family and see Eric's family afterwards, usually on the New Years weekend. This year my mom is flying out for a week then I'm flying back with her and seeing my family then.

When I was little I would bake cookies with my mom and leave them for Santa. That's how I knew he was real- my mom would never eat those cookies for Santa, and they were always gone in the morning!

For about 5 years we lived out in the country on an old Christmas tree farm! So, we would just go down and pick out a tree, which was interesting. They are way too big now to cut down, though, until a few months ago my dad still lived in that house and the trees are all way over 10 ft. tall now.