We asked our members to share their favorite holiday traditions. We are sharing them here and including a few of our own!

Christmas time is quite possibly the most favorite part of my entire year! I have always loved it from childhood and as an adult it’s still just as magical now that we have kids to create traditions with! Since moving back to the Midwest, we have started the tradition of going to the local Christmas tree farm and cutting down our own tree. Picking the perfect one takes forever but the kids have become pretty good tree connoisseurs, holding out for just the right one. Not too full, not too scraggly, not too short. This year’s tree did not disappoint, although it airs on the larger side. Ok… the thing is huge but we made it fit!

Only slightly misleading when you see it all wrapped up on top of the car.

A lot of sap in here! Looks great. A little full. A lot of sap.

It’s a beaut Clark, it’s a beaut!

Here are some of the traditions our members enjoy!

We give our kids a Christmas Eve box with new pjs and filled with snacks

Make and eat latkes (potato pancakes) with my family

Midnight mass on Christmas Eve and monkey bread on Christmas morning

Secret Santa gift exchange

Gingerbread house contest

White Elephant

Christmas eve pjs and an ornament to remember the year’s achievements

Christmas Day brunch

ALL the Hallmark movies with my sisters plus cozy blankets and cookies

Opening and wearing Christmas Eve pjs for the whole family

Driving to see all of the lights and drinking hot cocoa

On Christmas Eve, we play board games all night until we go to bed

We open one small gift on Christmas Eve

Visit a real reindeer farm (we live in the country)

Attend a live nativity play

We bake and decorate cookies every year

Watching all of the classic holiday movies like Christmas Vacation, Love Actually, Elf, The Santa Clause, etc.

We do The Polar Express every year where you ride the train in Flagstaff, AZ and experience the story

I make homemade cinnamon rolls every year and bake them on Christmas morning

Christmas crafts like homemade ornaments and stringing popcorn for the tree with dried orange slices. Lots of work but so fun

Baking cinnamon dough ornaments for the tree. They smell amazing!

Writing letters to Santa and taking them when we visit for pictures

I love choosing a wrapping theme each year and making the presents almost too good to tear into

Every year we devote one full day to baking all of our Christmas Family Favorites! These recipes have been passed down through generations, and it's so fun to think about our kids doing the same thing with their kids someday.

Have a holiday tradition to add? Tell us here!