The holiday season is my favorite time of year. Hot chocolate, festive lights, wrapping presents, decorating, spending time with family and friends - I love it all. One of my favorite things about this time of year is the Christmas movies. I love everything about the season, but nothing quite says Christmas like curling up under a fuzzy blanket with a cup of hot chocolate and watching your favorite holiday story.

I compiled a list of movie favorited by family, friends, and me. They range from sappy to funny. So grab some caramel corn, the hot cocoa, your fuzzy blankets, and give some of these a watch! Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to you and your's!

1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

You can't beat the classics! Give this one a try, and you'll be in for some fun. Join Clark and the rest of the Griswold gang as they celebrate Christmas - you're sure to enjoy the ride.

2. The Santa Clause

This is one of my personal favorites. I think I actually wore out the VHS when I was a kid. This movie came out when I was two, and I remember watching it throughout my childhood. Although it spawned a couple sequels, the original will always be my favorite.

3. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Another version of this movie exists starring Mara Wilson (the girl who played Matilda), but I just like the 1947 version better. Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood star in the 1947 version, and it's just a classic, as well. It gives me that warm familiar feeling every time I watch it. I loved it since I was a kid.

4. It's a Wonderful Life

Good ole George Bailey... This one is not my personal favorites also, but it is my mom's all-time favorite. She loves her some 'It's a Wonderful Life', so this one is for you, Mom.

5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

A Dr. Seuss classic brought to life by Jim Carey. Join the Whos in Whoville to celebrate Christmas... if the Grinch doesn't ruin things first.

6. A Christmas Story

This one is another classic. "You'll shoot your eye out!" Enough said.

7. The Polar Express

This one is visually stunning, and then there's Tom Hanks... Need I say more?

8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Rudolph, Yukon Cornelius, Hermey the elf, the misfit toys - what's not to love?

9. A Charlie Brown Christmas

Join the Peanuts gang for their Christmas celebrations, and enjoy their sparse little tree.

10. Frosty the Snowman (1969)

"Happy Birthday!"

11. A Christmas Carol (1951)

Many TV shows, movies, and stage productions all play tribute to this Charles Dickens story, but the 1951 movie version with Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge was always my favorite.

12. Scrooged

This is a different take on the Charles Dickens classic, starring Bill Murray. It is worth a watch.

13. The Holiday

This is one of the sappier titles on the list. It stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as women who swap houses; it is a "rom-com", but it has some endearing moments. It is worth watching.

14. Last Holiday

This one stars Queen Latifah, and I just love it. It's a feel-good flick.

15. Love Actually

This one makes everyone's list of "must watch" Christmas movie list and rightly so. It is not my favorite, but it is worth watching, anyway. Plus, everyone who ever acted is in it.

16. Elf

('Cause my girlfriend made me.)

17. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

I like the first Home Alone, as well, but Lost in New York will always be my favorite.

18. Die Hard

A lot of people say this is not a Christmas movie, but you know what I have to say to that? "Yippee-ki-yay, motherf*****"