The holiday season is beginning and I couldn't be more excited. All of the family traditions always make for amazing memories. Most of our traditions start a little before Halloween when we get our pumpkins. We always go to a pumpkin patch instead of a market or grocery store. We go and walk around the pumpkin fields and pick the perfect pumpkins, we get apple cider or hot chocolate depending on where we are and walk around more as a family before leaving. After that we have Thanksgiving. I always spend Thanksgiving with close relatives, we all get-together and have a delicious feast, we joke around and play games and then we generally get our Christmas tree the day of or after. We always get real trees and usually my dad with cut one himself. We all decorate it together and have fun putting out all of the stockings and other holiday decorations. On December 1st the advent calendars and Elfie, the elf on the shelf, come out for 25 days of exciting surprises. Every day a little surprise leading up to Christmas. On Christmas Eve we go to Church in the evening with my grandparents and we open presents at their house, then my parents give us kids new "Christmas pajamas". Then on Christmas morning my brothers are always the first ones up, yelling and jumping to all the rooms to make sure that everyone knows "ITS CHRISTMAS". We go downstairs to the living room with the pretty presents under the beautiful Christmas tree, my brothers don't notice the beauty due to their uncontrollable excitement. We get our coffee/tea/snacks and settle into the living room to read the note that Santa left next to the plate that held is cookies the night before. We watch my brothers rip open presents and try to keep up enough to get the paper in the bag. Once they've settled the slightest bit we open a few things too but it's mainly about them. The rest of Christmas is spent relaxing with family and just enjoying the things we were given and cherishing the expressions of the ones we love as they opened the present we have them.

How do you spend your holidays? I'd love the feedback!