We have so many traditions, Christmas is pretty much a process at our house. Every year we always pick eachother's names out of a hat around Thanksgiving, and have to get one present for the person whose name we picked. Sometime during the day on Christmas Eve we all gather by the tree, where we would have already put the wrapped presents for each other. One by one we hide them, then play the hot-cold game until the person finds them, then we all open them.

We go to church in the evening, and after we get back we have the most unusual traditional Christmas Eve dinner: Chinese food. There's a good reason for that, and that's that Chinese food places used to be the only places that served food on Christmas Eve. Of course, now we could probably run through McDonald's, but why go against tradition? After dinner, we all watch a movie and drink hot chocolate, and then after the younger kids are in bed, the rest of us put our parents' presents for us under the tree and in our stockings. After that, my parents open their presents for each other and we all go to bed.

On Christmas morning, when everyone is awake, we cut our stockings off of the railing and take them into our parents' room where we open those presents, then after our parents are out of bed we go to the tree and open those presents. Then we eat breakfast, then sometime in the afternoon we go to our grandparents' house and eat some appetizers (which usually include some great crab dip which is always gone pretty quick). We also open some more presents there, and have dinner, which like most other people apparently is the same as Thanksgiving dinner. Dessert is similar to Thanksgiving dessert, except it involves cookies and no pumpkin pie. After we eat that, we pack up the car and head back home. Then we go crazy playing whatever new games we got until New Year's Eve, when we have some other traditions.