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Since my husband and I started dating we have always celebrate Christmas Eve at his mother’s house. This tradition has went on for 10 years. We always spend the night. My mother-in-law gives us Christmas pajamas and always plans an activity. We have in the past we have baked cookies, painted ornaments, tried new recipes, or played a family game. When we wake up we open presents and have a big Christmas breakfast. Since our son has been born we have continued this tradition. We will take the presents over to my mother-in-laws and Santa visits him there.

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Christmas Eve at my Meme's house! We have done this every year since I can remember. Me, my brother, Mom, and Dad have dinner with her and my uncle and then open presents!

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My son, who turned 9 this year, loves the holiday season of Christmas. Each Christmas Eve he receives new Christmas pajamas, we read "Twas' the Night Before Christmas", and put out cookies and milk for Santa. We load in the car, and we go look at Christmas lights, while listening to Christmas music. It our favorite time of the year!

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One of our favorite family traditions is to make enchiladas every year for New Years Eve! My grandmother is Mexican and has passed down all the best recipes. We make enchiladas and pozole together. We all work together with one person flipping the tortillas, other people putting them in the sauce and more people filling them. It’s an all day event and so much fun! We’ll usually make over 100 since my immediately family is so big. It’s something I hope to pass down to my children as well!

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My children are grown, and my family is blended. So, for Christmas we created a tradition of going to Waffle House at midnight on Christmas Eve. We all wear our new Christmas pajamas and load up in our cars. We are usually there for a couple of hours enjoying each other’s company before heading home.

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Every summer we take a big family vacation. We have done this since I was a little girl. My aunt and uncle and their 2 boys fly out from Colorado and meet us. It is my favorite time of the year!

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My family is very special! We get together to celebrate holidays and special occasions like my daughters Adoption Celebration! We love to cook and bake, so we make all our holiday family meals at home together. Then we dress up and take family pictures before we eat. One of my favorite childhood traditions is making sugar cookies and decorating them. Now my daughter and my nephews love to make and decorate the Christmas Sugar Cookies too!  We also started taking an annual family vacation to Destin where my mom grew up. My parents met and married there too! I have so many wonderful memories of going there when we were growing up! Now my parents, myself, my daughter and my siblings come and bring their families when they can. In 2019, my whole family was able to come to Destin to celebrate my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary! It was an amazing trip! I love my family!

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Outside of the major holidays, my family gets together with our boys, and both sets of grandparents prior to Halloween each year. We go to a pumpkin patch and then we carve the pumpkins and go out and light them together. This is and has been a great way to spend time together where we are making something and seeing the creativity of each person and their creation.

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Our family tradition is every winter we love to work puzzles. They have gotten larger and harder each year as my daughter gets older. We have a dedicated space in the basement for this each year. It’s fun to turn off the tv and just talk together over a puzzle.

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A favorite family tradition my family has is getting together on Christmas Eve for a Slovakian-style holiday dinner.  For our Christmas Eve meal, we have a large dinner made up of pierogis, mushroom soup, bread with honey, and fish.  We also read a Slovak traditional script and crack a walnut known for attracting good energy, luck, and fortune. The kids have to eat, sing Christmas Songs, then they can open gifts.  Every year a different kid gets to be a ELF and help "Santa" pass out gifts. The grandkids always take a picture on the stairs with my Mom. We end the night by going to midnight mass.

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My oldest son is almost 6 and has loved all things scary since he was little. For the past few years, every Christmas Eve we watch the movie "Nightmare Before Christmas". Last year even baby brother got to join in on our little family tradition! - Rebecca Turner

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We always go someone exciting for summer vacation. This past summer, we went to San Destin, Florida. For this next summer, maybe Boston! Hmm... :)

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We don’t have many traditions in my family. We are a small family of 3 and we have changed our Thanksgiving plans multiple years and have changed locations where we celebrate on Easter. But every year we go to Christ the King for mass on Christmas Eve. We sit in the same area, go early to sing carols, and love going there every year.

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Every summer we have a family reunion at the beach. We take lots of pictures in similar poses each year to document changes and growth.

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When I was a kid, my sister and I would make confetti by hand for every New Year’s Eve.  We used different shaped hole punches and would punch out as many shapes as we could for a few hours.  Then, come midnight, we would throw confetti (in our house) as hard and high as we could!  Needless to say, my parents were still finding little confetti pieces 6 months later!😂 This tradition was revived last NYE with my 7 year old son.  If not evident from the photo, he is a fan of this tradition!    Finding confetti months and months later still holds true as well…

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We go to some kind of holiday show or event before Christmas. This was after Holidaze at Rupp. I do NOT recommend that show but we had a fun night anyway!

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When my family gets together for Christmas each year, the first present we open is always matching pajamas. Our family is still growing, so the challenge is finding them in all the sizes we need. Somehow, my mother always makes it happen! This is one of my favorite holiday traditions.

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One of my family traditions is going to UK football games. My parents have been season ticket holders for 25+ years, so my sister and I have grown up going to the games (regular season and bowl games). We love to tailgate and cheer on the Kentucky Wildcats as a family.

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I started celebrating Thanksgiving after I married 18 years ago. I celebrated Christmas on December 24th at night because this is our tradition in Costa Rica.

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Our little family is just getting started but for the three Christmases since our daughter was born, we go and pick out a real Christmas tree together the weekend after Thanksgiving. Each year has gotten more and more special as she can help decorate it and celebrate with us. Next year we’ll have a little boy crawling around helping us!

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My entire family is only able to get together every 4 years. My oldest brother and his family live in France, so when we do all get together, we take a family photo for Mom and Dad’s Christmas card!

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We celebrate the first day of spring, which marks our new year. A symbolic illustration of Norooz, Iranian New Year, is setting up a decorative table called, Haft-Sin in every home.

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Each year my mom, dad, and I work at the Salvation Army Angel Tree helping to provide Christmas gifts for children in need in Lexington. My mom has been in charge of the "bulk items" for many years and is known as "The Bike Lady".

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A favorite family tradition is creating a card or letter to send out to family and friends. My immediate family will argue over what pictures to use and what should be written in it, but we love to pull them out each year to reflect on all of our stages of life. Currently, my grandson is the star of the show!

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We're an adoptive family, and we celebrate our son's "family day" (the day we finalized his adoption and legally became his parents), in addition to celebrating his birthday

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Every year after Thanksgiving our family puts up the Christmas tree and decorate with ornaments while watching “Home Alone.” We give each other one new ornament every Christmas as a present so we enjoy all the ornaments we have collected over the years. It has become more special as our little ones (Robin and Will) grow up and can enjoy the tradition.

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My family tradition is our entire family picks holiday pajamas to wear when we gather to celebrate Christmas. Now that our family has grown our celebration is not always on Christmas, but the tradition continues on regardless.

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On my dad's side of the family, water fights have traditionally been a big deal.  These started before I was born on my great grandparents' rural farm, and no one is safe (my great uncle and dad once drenched my great grandmother!) Every Easter when I was growing up someone would ambush unsuspecting family members who were outside eating or hunting eggs :). This picture is of my dad, kids, and grandma.

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My family tradition is every birthday we flip a butter knife into our cake in hope's of having the knife stick straight up in the cake. This tradition comes from my Mom's side of the family.

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Every summer my family goes to the Ky. State Fair with my nephew and his family. And every year he eats one of those giant turkey legs.

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On Thanksgiving, my family always poses for a holiday card photo. One of my nieces takes it for us. Last year, we all held wreaths that we then hung on our windows.