It's a different date every year, but this year, on the 20th, is my grandparents on my mom's side's Christmas party, and let me tell you, my mom has 7 sisters, all of whom have 2 or more children, and some of them have kids also. There's lots of us there. We rent out a hotel and have a Christmas party and go swimming in the pool and open presents. I love it. It's probably my fave part of the Christmas season, because lots of them I haven't seen in a while.

Chrsitmas Eve we go to church, and that is really neat too. It's the same every year, but every year the tree in the church gets bigger and better. We listen to the sermon, then afterward, we pull out the candles we get at the door and light them from the isle candles. They turn out the lights in the church except the lights on the tree and we sing Silent Night. I love that part, it's so cool. Then we go to my other grandma's house and open more gifts from my dad's side of the family and have a large dinner. Usually on the way home we look at the lights on the houses and drive past the house that has TONS of lights. It's better each year.

Christmas day is spent with my family at our house. It's just my parents, me, my brother, and my sister, and this year, our newest addition, my nephew. We open presents in the morning and the living room is a huge mess until someone gets up (we usually all fall asleep from my bro waking us up at 6am to open presents) then we clean up and have Christmas dinner.

THEN, if I am lucky, my parents and my friend Rachel's parents talk and I get to go visit her house in Minnesota over the weekend. Yay!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!