Thursday, December 2, 2010

Question of the Week December 10th

Write about one of your FAVORITE holiday traditions. Explain the tradition and why it is important to you. As always, you will need to write at least THREE paragraphs!

11 comments:

4 said...

My favorite tradition is putting ornaments on the tree every year. We get a new ornament every year to put on the tree. It is important because I need one every year. Another tradition is eating turkey on Thanksgiving.

We always eat turkey on Thanksgiving. It is important because I need turkey on Thanksgiving. Another is putting the tree up every year. We all ways put it up 2 day after thanksgiving.

If we don’t do that we never get to it. Another is we all way go to my grandmas on Christmas. We go there to eat lunch every year. It’s important because we are used to a big meal on Christmas.

8 said...

My family has a lot of traditions. They usually are fun. I like them they are cool. This year we won’t be able to do one of them because my grandma Betty passed away. We might still do but it won’t be the same without her.

We usually go to her house at Christmas and eat there. Then we open presents. Then we sit around and chat and play board games. I like spending time with my family. We do this with my dad’s side of the family.

Then we go to my other grandma’s house. My brothers and I only do this with my mom’s side of the family. We got to her house and eat more. Then we go and open more presents. Then we sit around and chat.

Then we go up stairs and we get these baskets. They are filled with tons of stuff. They sometimes fill them with stuff like deodorant. I don’t like that because I have enough of that.

Then when I’m done with that I go and help my brother Jordan he my favorite brother. I do this every year at the same time. It is fun I like it.

Then we go to my mom’s house. We open more presents. Then we eat more food and we play with the presents. Then we play our Xbox 360. I like playing that it is fun. It is going to be more fun this year because we are getting Kinnect.

It will be fun to play with. My mom’s house is the best. I like the other things too but my mom’s house is the best. I like the traditions I have and I hope they stay the same.

3 said...

My holiday tradition is to put a Christmas tree in your room and put lights in to. We go to my grandma’s house in Sioux Falls to open presents. We eat out at taco bell. We go bowling sometimes too and we go to Rapid City SD on new years to see my sister and her husband.

We are starting a new thing this year each person is going to go out and bye and ornament to put on the tree. I think that is just weird because we like do a lot of stuff already so do not see the point in doing it. This and tradition that my family does they go to Las Vegas every year to the National Final Rodeo and stay in a really fancy place at the Monte Carlo. They eat at the best steak house in Las Vegas.

The thing that I don’t like is that we have to drive all the way to Sioux Falls just to open presents. I think we should just stay home to open presents then go to my grandmas house when ever one is there then we go to taco bell but I don’t think we are going to do that this year. This year I am hoping I will get a new quad this year because my friend crashed the other. We make cookies for Santa and leave milk out for him.

I don’t see the point because I make the cookies and my parents eat them when I go to sleep and when I get up in the morning and they are gone ask where are the cookies. They say Santa ate it. By one night hid behind the tree when I was like 4 year old to catch Santa but it was my mom and dad. They still do it to this day and I said those cookies are for Santa stop eating them I was really mad that night because Santa did not come.

For Christmas if I get a Xbox 360 and a football game that would become a tradition. If that become a tradition we will have terminates to see who will win. I think I will win because i am a big game freak. I game I want is halo.

10 said...

One of the traditions you just started is getting a real tree for Christmas. It is very messy. It is fun to have a real tree. We also put ornaments on the tree every year.

We get a new ornament every year too. It is fun to get a new ornament. Our family always opens present Christmas morning. I like opening presents.

We always get a stocking full of stuff. I like getting gum in my stocking. Our all family also gets together to celebrate Christmas. It is a lot of fun.

12 said...

My family tradition that we do every year is go to my grandparent’s house. I love going there, because I get to see all my cousins. I also enjoy it, because I can be myself around them. We have done this every year since my big brother was born. It is really awesome to see my whole family… and getting presents isn’t half bad.
Another tradition that goes on every year is not getting to open presents until Christmas morning. We do this because since my dad was a kid he wasn’t allowed to open them until then. I like it though because we get up in our pajamas and rum down stairs to look under the Christmas tree. I love that tradition!

My mom and I have a tradition that we do every year after Thanksgiving. We always set up the Christmas tree. I enjoy doing it because it is just a girl thing. My mom and I have done this ever since I could put decorations on the tree. It is so nice because then after we set up the tree we eat lunch and hang out. I love it!

1 said...

One of our family traditions on my dad’s side is that all of us kids and some adults run around my grandpa’s house barefoot in the snow twice! Everyone how wants to does it and we all love it but you have to know the consequences for doing it tough. Then we go inside and drink all the hot chocolate we can before we get sick.

Another one is we have a big Christmas tree upstairs and all the presents go up there. Then we make the kids make a line going from the upstairs to the downstairs. We pass all of the presents downstairs like the presents are crowd surfing!

One on my mom’s side is that we make all the Christmas goodies at my grandmas. Then we go swimming in her OUTSIDE hot tube! Then we go inside and open our presents while drinking hot chocolate.

5 said...

My families Christmas tradition is we get one ornament per year. The ornament has to be about something special that happened that year. Like this year we got an angel that is playing a trumpet. The angel is for our religion and my sister and I play trumpet.

I love this tradition because you never now what you’ll get for an ornament until Christmas comes. My sister and I always try to pick the ornament but we never get to. my mom usually gets to pick it out.

For Christmas dinner we always have ham and turkey. All of our family comes. This year I’ll get to see my cousin Hannah for the first year.

6 said...

One of my family traditions would be… Every year on Christmas morning my dad cooks breakfast burritos for us. We all have hot chocolate during breakfast. I think that is pretty cool. After breakfast we open presents! I hope this year is way better than last year.

Another one is… we always go over to my aunt and uncle’s house. I like going over there because we always play games. I hope my uncle isn’t working this year. I am excited for Christmas!

We used to go down to Iowa but now that gas costs way too much money we can’t. I hope that now that everyone in my family is now working that we can go down there again. I think that this year is better than every year that we have lived here. I can’t wait to spend time with my family!

13 said...

At my house we almost always get our tree out but know we are going to be very, very, very careful. Now we are getting another cat, I wonder what will happen know sync we are getting another cat. My X-mas is always crazy because we have to go to Sioux Falls, Alcester, and that is it. I always have Swedish to regular meatballs.

At my Great Grandma’s house they always make pie, and it depends on what they feel like and if somebody else was making them. They make the best food in my whole family. I get a lot of presents from my grandma, and grandpa. My Grandma Powell always gets me some kind bone digging thing or a science kit from my cousins.

We also go to my cousin’s house to go shooting and one time I just about shot one of their cows in the leg. My family can’t even go in their house! That just proves to you that you don’t want to have 5 kids. They almost had 6 kids and you can’t even see my cousin’s own bedroom!!

2 said...

One of my favorite traditions is Christmas. One thing we do during Christmas is we pick a family member to be the Santa for Christmas morning. What that Santa does is takes gifts from under the tree and hands them out. The down side is you don’t get to open your presents till every one has opened threes. I say it’s worth being Santa because once every one has opened there presents they want wishing they had more presents while you’re still opening theirs.

Another tradition my family has is we try to make my younger siblings go to sleep. How we do this when it’s dark we go to Sioux Falls looking at all of the Christmas lights everyone has. Then when were done with that we go to the falls park .Another thing I like to do is drink hot cocoa.

One other tradition my family has is putting ornaments on a Christmas tree. We get a new ornament every year. It’s amazing to see how old some of them are. We have some from when my grandparents were kids. We also put the star on the top of the tree.

7 said...

My favorite tradition would be putting the tree up 2 weeks before christmas. My great grandma came up with this tradition. If we don't do this tradtioln it's just not a good year. I love this tradition!

Another tradition I kind of like that we started this year was going to my Uncle Roberts and eating there for lunch and super. It was weird this year because no one knew what we were doing. Unfortunatly i was late because I was in Pierre. For my step dads thanksgiving we eat and then that night is the parade of lights.

Another new tradition for me was my step dads tradition. If i had the choice to make any tradition it would be in my step dads and have everybody there this time! I think that that tradition really isnt that fun,but hopefully next year it is better! I love all my familys traditions!