My side of the family came over on Christmas Eve to do dinner and gifts with the kiddos. My mom always makes lasagna on Christmas Eve. I'm not sure how or when that tradition started but I don't remember a Christmas Eve that we didn't have lasagna. We would usually do a little program where each of us had to do something like sing or play the piano and then we would each have a part to play in The Christmas Story.

This will probably be a tradition that I continue with our kids but I wasn't organized or motivated enough this year to do it.

So dinner and gifts it was. Hudson was so darn cute when he opened his gifts. He ooo'ed and ahhh'ed at all of them. One time he opened something upside down and all he saw was the cardboard bottom and he had the biggest smile and said "yes!". Silly kid.

Instead of giving the grandkids traditional gifts my mom gives them a keepsake Christmas ornament for the tree. They all have one for each Christmas since their birth.
They usually come in a box/tin and my mom puts dates on them so as the kids get older they will have that for a memory of Christmas pasts.
I am not a big person for gifts. I grew up poor...when I say poor I don't mean living paycheck to paycheck...I mean poor. So our Christmas's were humble :). This never bothered me though and I've never felt like I missed out on anything. But because of this birthdays and Christmas are things that have still stayed simple for me.
I enjoy the feeling and being with all my friends and family more than anything. It's such a fun/fattening time of the year.

But...everyone needs a new pair of jammies on Christmas eve.