Do you have any xmas traditions?

[briggsy's girl]

loving the new jim jams on Christmas eve - cute idea! might have to look at doing that one!

DH used to always wear a pair of blue and white striped shorts and a santa hat with mrs claus plaits - but they got lost when we got together. so that one is out the window - might have to find something for him to wear now that is spesh for Christmas

[bon]

We always do the drive around looking at the christmas lights every year, the kids absolutely love it! We try to do santa photos but last year were only successful at getting the two older kids in the photo, and that was only because they found out that if you get your photo taken with Santa, you got a little show bag with colouring in pages and chocolate in it! Gotta love bribery lol. Every year we all get a new outfit to wear on christmas day, which is wrapped and put under the tree. Because DD's birthday is 28th of November (and marks the last of our birthdays for the year), the tree does not go up any earlier than December 1, but usually later (because little hands can't help destroy...errr "rearranging" the decorations).

We usually go to PILs for christmas lunch, and MIL serves the same thing every year - pumpkin soup or prawn ****tail for entree, at least 3 different roast meats, plus ham and vegies for main, and traditional christmas pudding for dessert. She is very territorial about her christmas too - doesn't like anyone else contributing, and one year when I offered to make the pudding she decided that she would rather do what she always does and serve the tinned pudding. Yep, tinned pudding over home made. Oh well, no accounting for taste.