Oh my goodness! Christmas is coming!! It’s my favorite time of the year for making memories as a family! There are so many fun things to do around this holiday! Some of our family traditions include: wearing matching Christmas pajamas and taking a picture in front of our Christmas tree. We also go to Christmas Eve services at our church, then go home put on pajamas, grab some hot chocolate and head out to look at Christmas lights. We also love to bake all kinds of sweet treats to enjoy and share with others. Another things we do is buy each of our kids a Christmas ornament that signifies something big that happened in their lives that year! We also like to pick up an ornament from each vacation spot we hit through out the year. As you can imagine, our tree is VERY full! We are currently in the adoption process and hoping to bring home baby before Christmas this year!
This weekend, Babies“R”Us is starting a fun in store event to celebrate Baby’s First Christmas! On select Saturdays in November (11/7, 11/14 & 11/21) at 11am, Babies“R”Us stores nationwide will host Baby’s First Christmas events for moms and dads to celebrate the holidays with their babies!
The events will include:
· Story time for you and your baby to get in the holiday spirit
· Craft activity where you and your baby can decorate an adorable “ugly Christmas sweater” onesie (super cute J)
· “Baby’s First” photo station
· Handpicked gifting solutions for stocking stuffers, keepsakes and toys for infants at any stage
· Raffles, giveaways and more!
There will be some great offers such as:
· $2.00 OFF when you buy any Pampers wipes refill 7x box.
· $5.00 OFF when you buy Dreft 150oz
Pampers are my favorite diaper brand and are the perfect go-to diaper for ensuring a leak-proof holiday! Make sure to visit your local Babies“R”Us to check out special in-store boutiques filled with mementos for baby’s first holiday, including an adorable assortment of holiday clothing. You can be sure the season’s most picture-perfect outfits are kept clean, fresh and camera-ready with Dreft! (They now make an awesome stain stick that is perfect for your diaper bag!)
Giveaway:
I have partnered with both Pampers and Babies”R”Us to bring you a fun giveaway! To enter, simply leave a comment on this post telling me about your family traditions surrounds Christmas! Giveaway ends on Nov 10th at 5PM CST. Enter to win this awesome gift pack which includes:
· $100 gift card to Babies“R”Us
· Pampers wipes
· Dreft Pen
· One Christmas themed item TBD from BRU
Sweeps:
Enter Baby’s First Christmas sweepstakes from Nov 1 – Nov 30 where you can enter to win a $2500 Gift Card or a year of Pampers diapers!
Twitter Party:
Join me at Babies First Christmas party on Nov. 5 at 2PM ET using the hashtag #BRUChristmas on Twitter.
One of our traditions is bringing out the Elf on the Shelf on the day after Thanksgiving. We also get my kids new ornaments for the tree every year.
We buy ornaments every year that have the same initial as each of our three sons; angel for Aiden, drums for Dominic and gingerbread man for Gavin. We give them their ornaments on Christmas Eve and they get to pick where they go on the tree. I thought it would be neat for them to have ornaments from their childhood to decorate their trees when they have their own families.
Every year we pick a Christmas tree out together and visit Santa. We try to make Christmas as special as possible .
We decorate the tree as a family and make sugar cookies
Christmas is a very magical time of year around our home. We spend a lot of time with family doing many activities. We love to put up our Christmas tree together while drinking hot cocoa. We spend time picking up gifts for our family. We all drive around to many neighborhoods looking at Christmas lights. We bake cookies. My kids receive a special Christmas Eve box to open with new pajamas. We celebrate the birth of Jesus while cherishing the special time with family.
We have many special Christmas traditions. It is my favorite time of the year. My husband and I have been married for 38 years and have two beautiful children and their spouses. We have been blessed with 3 grandchildren (2 little grandsons and our new granddaughter) We love to share our traditions with our little ones. They help us decorate cookies and also the Christmas tree. They bring us so much joy! We all like to watch the special holiday movies together.
We celebrate Jesus and the blessings that he has given us. The most wonderful time of the year!
We like to go to Christmas Eve service and spend lots of family time together.
Our tradition on Christmas eve after our family leaves is to put on our Christmas pjs and watch Christmas Vacation 🙂
We love spending a lot of quality family time together. Our favorite thing to do is bake! Peppermint bark, fudge, cookies, pies, etc.
We like to get an ornament each year from our family vacation.
Open presents first thing in the morning and host dinner
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Our family loves the game dirty santa. We change up each year and sometimes we do gifts and sometimes we just do ornaments.
We always host a Christmas cookie decorating party..it is a lot of fun for the kiddos & adults.
On Christmas eve we do an ornament exchange and drink hot chocolate and make sugar cookies
We love to decorate cookies and make apple cider in the crockpot. We usually made homemade cinnamon rolls as well. We spend an evening together decorating the tree and the house and we usually watch Christmas movies!
Decorating our house and tree is my favorite! nickijoseph91@gmail dot com
The kids and I decorate the tree together and make a gingerbread house.
Our tradition is to take pictures on holidays and add to our holiday album. This is going through generations
We pick out a Christmas tree and decorate it every year.
One of our traditions is that on December 1st…a box of 24 wrapped books appear under the Christmas tree! With instructions…that every night he can pick 1 book for a new bedtime story! I look for the books all year…so when I get to Christmas…I have most of them already! We love doing this and reading all the new storybooks!
My son and I pick out a tree together and put it up which is always a challenge! After that, we enjoy decorating it slowly and putting out the first gifts.
Every year parents sleep in and the kids get their stockings. Then the parents get woken up to unwrap presents!
We put up our Christmas decorations right after Halloween! We just adopted our son, so we can’t wait to start new traditions with him!
We always include reading the Christmas Story aloud to remember why we celebrate no matter what!
We go to church with our family for the midnight candlelit service in our childhood church. We spend the entire day together- family is most important.