Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell POP!
It’s the right time to dip the night away don’t you think.
It’s here! It’s here! And I’m super excited Cake Pops Holidays is available online and in stores and even at scholastic book fairs, too I hear.… just in time for some fun holiday cake popping!
And I know you guys are gonna bring some serious cuteness this Christmas. I’m constantly blown away by the cake pops you all share on the Bakerella Facebook page. I mean super, super, super stuff. I often find my jaw dropping.
I hope the book continues to inspire you to make lots of people happy this holiday season. Lots of sweet smiles.
The book is full of cute winter holiday cake pop projects just like these.
Elves, Santas, stockings, presents … and gingerbread houses, Christmas lights, dreidels, wreaths and more.
It has a wiro-binding like the first book.
So you can lay it flat while you dip.
And to celebrate I’m giving away five (5) copies of the book.… Signed if you’d like.
(The book is available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and Target, too.)
But that’s not all.
Each of the five winners will also be getting something else.
Something fun!
And something to have fun with!
The Cake Pops Toy that’s available at Toys R US…
It comes with all this cute stuff to play with. And help little ones make real cake pops with.
A toy for tiny treats.
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Enter for a chance to win Cake Pops Holidays and the Cake Pops Toy
- To enter the giveaway, just answer one of the following questions.
- How do you usually spend Christmas Eve? Or What’s your favorite part of the holiday season?
- The deadline to enter is
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. ET.Sorry, Time’s up! Winners announced below. - Five (5) winners will be picked at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening.
Please note: The toy manufacturer is currently only shipping to the US and Canada. If a winner is chosen outside those countries, the winner will receive two signed Cake Pops Holidays books instead.
Good Luck!
P.S. I had my first book signing earlier today in King of Prussia and I want to thank all of you that came out to say hi. It was so much fun and I hope you enjoy your books. The first two signings were supposed to be in New York and New Jersey, but with the devastation from Sandy, we are going to try and reschedule. I hope all of you in those areas affected are safe.
Here’s the remaining Cake Pops Holidays Book Signing Dates. I’d love to see you.
P.P.S. I know there’s been a lot of cake pops on the site lately, but I’ll be back to regular baking too soon. I need a brownie or a cookie or 12.
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It’s time to pick winners from all the comments? These were some of the best, feel good responses and oh my goodness can I come over on Christmas Eve? So many wonderful memories are going to be happening this year too. Hope you all have happy holidays!
And now for the winners…
We usually visit our extended family & spend some good family time. Love the decorations & cant wait to put up my Christmas tree already :).
My family spends Christmas Eve with my husband’s family. When we get home we change the girls into their matching holiday jammies, set out cookies & milk, read The Night Before Christmas, and when they are in bed….the adults watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation!
My Christmas Eve is spent with my grandparents, Mom, brothers and their families, and my husband… My husband has brought a little South Louisiana flavor to the party by making a pot of gumbo to feed us all. I usually try a new dessert recipe. We open presents, laugh, and have a great time catching up.
My family watches Holiday movies on Christmas eve and my daughter & I bake cookies and muffins for Christmas day…its more spending time together than anything
My favorite part is the food. And more food. followed by…more…food…Guess thats the price I pay for having a family full of good cooks. =)
And oh my, I LOVE the the cake pops toy! Totally appeals to my inner 5 year old. Totally want it for me! lol
I love all the extra baking and cooking plus receiving Christmas cards with pictures.
My favorite part of the holiday season is watching “Elf” and making cookies!!
My favorite part of the holiday season is when all of my family gather at my home for our time together spent having a traditional meal together, opening gifts and especially spending time together remembering the true meaning of Christmas.
In German tradition, my family opens presents on Christmas Eve…we read the Christmas story, sing carols, and then open everything!
On Christmas Eve we usually go to our churches candle light service. And spend the evening with family. Hopemade soups, sandwhiches and munchies. Lots of games and some presents too!
Christmas Eve is always spent at my moms house with family. We eat cookies and pizza then watch the little ones go crazy opening their gifts.
How do you usually spend Christmas Eve?
When I was a child I loved to spend Christmas Eve at church with the choir and the reception after mass. It made everything so real and I got to be part of it. As I grew up I love to spend it with my family, parents, and now Ilove the peacefulness ofmy own home with my three four-legged stooges!
What’s your favorite part of the holiday season?
My favorite part of the holidays is all of the evenings when my family is visiting.
I spend Christmas eve with my daughter, my father, my brother, my niece and her two little boys. We have a special Christmas even diner, we watch A Nightmare before Christmas and have some delicious holiday cookies with my nieces scrumptious peppermint milkshake before we open up one gift which is our special Christmas pj’s.
Christmas Eve dinner at my parents (my mom makes homemade pierogis) Yum!
As my kids are getting older, our traditions are changing some. I hope to spend this Christmas Eve snuggled around the fire with the kids in some cozy (new) pajamas watching holiday movies!
My favorite part of the holidays is spending time with my kiddos over school break and baking with my daughter.
Baking Christmas cookies for Santa during the day and Christmas Eve Service late afternoon.
My favorite part of Christmas Eve is spending time with my family. We all get together to put up Christmas decorations, watch Christmas movies, bake cookies, go look at Christmas lights, help out at the church, and share Christmas memories.
My favorite part of the Holiday season is taking my kids to see grandma and grandpa in Mexico to my hometown, we skip the Chicago freezing weather while we help my mom decorate the entire house for the holidays, we usually spend a whole month down there, then we come back home and have our own Christmas morning in January and open more presents!!
We attend Christmas Eve service at church and then go out for a family dinner. This will be my daughter’s first Christmas so I have a feeling new traditions will start soon.
We spend Christmas Eve shopping (who can resist shopping on that day)? Then I start baking, we go to Christmas Eve Service at church, and end the night making homemade pizzas. The kids sprinkle the reindeer food on the lawn and we read Twas the night before Christmas just before heading to bed. It is my favorite day of the year!
My favorite thing about the holiday season is baking!!!! & of course, spending time with my family and friends <3
Spending time with my family baking
I love decorating the house and putting up the tree. I love listening to Xmas music while I bake. My favorite part is watching the kids open up presents and listening to them sign songs.
My family and I always travel north on Christmas eve to spend the evening with the rest of our large extended family! We stay up late and catch up with each other and by midnight we’re wishing each other Merry Christmas! When I was young, my cousins and I used to stay up till 3 in the morning to open our gifts!
The best part of the holidays is just getting together with family that you don’t get to see that often during the rest of the year :)
Ahhh, you’re so generous.
I’ve never made cake pops, but have drooled over yours!
My favorite part of the holidays is always everyone’s mood!
It’s good! Then there’s the food, the beverages, the smiling, we usually watch a movie if my daughter’s home!
We always get new christmas pajamas to wear Christmas Eve night. The kids energy and excited makes Christmas Eve such a great day. I love holiday baking and picking out/decorating the tree. :)
Christmas Eve is spent eating tourtiere, then a walk around the legislature grounds looking at the Christmas lights. It finally ends with mixing up some Christmas-themed martinis (different every year and always STRONG) and playing cards before we all get into our pajamas and hang our stockings. Sometimes we start watching White Christmas just to get sleepy (and finish it on Christmas Day).
But this year all of my family is going to be spread out! I’ll have to come up with my own temporary tradition so I don’t miss everyone!
Christmas Eve is spent with family and long-time family friends. Lots of good food and sweet treats always play a big role!
christmas eve open at my parents – we serve our favorite appetizers and desserts…favorite day of the year!!
My favorite part of the holidays is the Christmas Tree!!! My husband and I travel to a tree farm, where we hop on a tractor with a wooden cart that pulls us through the snow covered hills. We select a tree (not an easy task!), strap it to the car and take it home to decorate. The best part is sitting at home with the lights off, and the tree lit, watching snow fall outside and listening to carols while drinking a warm beverage. So fun!!!
We always have a seafood feast on Christmas Eve.
My favorite part is Christmas eve service at church, followed by a family get together with lots of good snacks and good times.
we spend the eve eating potatiskorv and home made pizza, we watch movies and the kids open the presents from the family … Christmas day is to open presents from Santa.
Christmas eve is usually spent going over new recipes to try out the next day, haha!
I love spending time with my 7 year old daughter creating gifts to give to friends and family for the holiday season. I hope it becomes a tradition that she can pass down to her children for future holidays.
We hang out with cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents at my sister’s house. We have different types of soups, crackers and cheeses. We get in our pjs and open presents.
My husband’s birthday is on Christmas Eve so we usually spend the day celebrating him…just the way he celebrates us on our birthdays. As a kid we used to open 1 present each on Christmas Eve, but I had to be unselfish and give that up so my hubby could enjoy his day. ;)
Christmas eve is spend waiting for the kids to fall asleep. Putting out the presents is always exciting to me.
My favorite part of the holiday season is the decorations. I love all the lights and the sparkly things.
We usually spend Christmas Eve at my parent’s house with my mom’s wide of the family.
Christmas Eve is the biggest event of the year for our family. We spend the days baking, cooking, and candy-making, enjoy a big dinner with all the extended family, re-enact the nativity story, and open family presents.
We usually spend Christmas Eve with my hubby’s family, then we head over to my grandparents’ house for dessert and candy before coming home and putting the kiddos to bed.
Christmas Eve is full of last minute shopping and gift wrapping for me!
Every year for as long as I can remember, we all go to my Great Grandmothers house on Christmas Eve. All of the children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren gather in her small living room ’round the Christmas tree. Even though she is not with us anymore we still carry on the tradition she started years ago.
Christmas eve is usually at my house i invite friends (since i have no family here) and people that a less fortunet and can not afford the holidays. thanks for the chance to win!
christmas eve is spent cleaning the house and my favourite part about christmas is the amazing basketball games that are played on that day :)
On Christamas Eve we usually load into the car and go looking at Christamas Lights, and hunt for Santa ;)
On Christmas Eve we will go look at Christmas lights around town, then go home, have hot cocoa & a snack, the kids get to open 1 present (usually new pj’s or slippers or a blanket) then we watch tv or talk for a bit, the kids go to bed and Santa comes out! Christmas is my most favorite time of year!!!
I spend Christmas with my family. I love to decorate and bake and start right after Thanksgiving.
We always spend part of the day on Christmas Eve baking cookies for Santa with my girls. Their grandpa comes & gets them to go Christmas shopping for part of the day & then I get to finish wrapping all the presents. Just before bed we read “The Night Before Christmas” and “The Story of Christmas”.
Christmas Eve is usually really quiet….until the kids go to bed! Then, ALL the wrapping gets done and ALL the Santa-ing. It’s exhausting….but I do look forward to it!
I visit my family on Christmas Eve – we go to church, make a bunch of snacks to eat throughout the night, have delicious drinks, and enjoy time together around the Christmas tree. Just thinking about it makes me excited for winter!
Growing up in New Mexico we always had tamales, bean, green chile stew and homemade tortillas. After church, it is still our tradition to enjoy that meal following the service.
On Christmas Eve in our house, the kids open their new pjs and choose one small gift to open. I also make cookies to put out for Santa, and we spend some time looking at NORAD to watch Santa make his way around the world :)
My favorite part of the Holiday is always our tall fresh Frasier Fir tree. It’s covered with ornaments from our travels around the world over the last 33 years. It’s filled with happy memories and deep sentiment. My tree stand is truly unique too. It was built in the early 1950’s by a friend of my grandfather’s. It’s a beautiful village of houses, church, trees, and small wooden figures from Erzgebirge Germany.
Christmas Eve has been different for the last several years as my husband and I lived in Germany for 4 years. We usually went to midnight mass and that’s about it. Now that we’re back in the states, we’ve spent it with family and mass. I’m excited as this year will be my first time to have Christmas at my house so we’ll have new traditions I’m sure. :)
My favorite part of the Christmas season is Christmas Eve. My brothers come home and we all enjoy being together just like when we were little. Then the best part…fondue dinner! We all sit around the table and cook and talk about old memories. My entire family look forward to this every year for the past 15 years at least.
Christmas Eve has always been special to me – growing up, we went to the grandparent’s house for a huge dinner and present exchange. It was all of the cousins, second cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents etc. My mom would get my sister and I special dresses just for the occassion. Now that I’m older, my favorite tradition is having a Christmas movie marathon all day while I bake goodies. Then that evening, my boyfriend and I each pick one present to open “before Christmas.” We don’t have the family close by, but we’re more than happy to start our own cozy traditions. :)
Our Christmas Eve tradition is to finish all the wrapping- hit the pub (just the two of us) for one drink and then go back home for a quiet dinner – resting before the mayhem hits tomorrow morning at my parents’.
Christmas Eve is actually my birthday so I’m visiting family and having at least 5 pieces of cake from each home!
I love almost everything about the holiday season! The cinnamon smell in the air, the glittery decorations, the anticipation of giving gifts to people, wrapping the gifts to make them look pretty and appealing, BAKING!! and so much more! It’s one of my favourite times of year!!
Growing up, we always went to the Nativity program our church put on. Now, Christmas Eve is spent at my mom’s house. We do our own show of the Nativity. The kiddos never dissapoint!
i just recently learned how to use royal icing, so I’m looking forward to baking and decorating sugar cookies!
My Dad comes to my house and cooks a big Christmas morning breakfast for the whole family
My favorite part of the holiday season is the decorations, music and goodies that we only have at Christmas time!
Holidays = Family!! <3!!
Bakerella… I LOVE your site!! I have been following you from the beginning. You & Pioneer Woman have been such an inspiration and influence in my cooking adventures over the past 6 years :) Keep it up! You guys rock :)
P.S. Your cake pop book is my neice and nephews favorite cookbook to pull off of my bookshelf :)
All the lights are my favourite – my kids love them too!
Christmas Eve is spent at our house. Love watching the grandchildren open their presents from us.
My favourite part of the holiday season is the overall atmosphere, everyone is cheery and happy, there’s a sense of warmth and love for everyone (and obviously, peppermint flavoured everything). I love spending Christmas Eve with my family cuddled up in blankets, sipping on marshmallowy hot chocolate and working on a good puzzle (since it’s the holiday season,people aren’t allowed to get super irritated at each other hehe)
We always head to chruch christmas eve… then home to open our new jammies.. make hot chocolate and watch the polar express.. perfect night with my kiddos :)
We spend Christmas Eve ~ by spend the day with family, then have a big early dinner, And then when it’s dark enough we’ll go driving around the near by neighborhoods looking at the houses all decorated with lights. Come home and put out milk and cookies for Santa and then the kids go to bed.
My favorite part of Christmas Eve is eating the wonderful feast my mother and I prepare for the family. We eat a big dinner then open presents which as a child I always loved and now my kids love. Then we spend the rest of the evening just enjoying each other and of course playing Santa, wrapping gifts, and stuffing stockings for my kids while they are dreaming of cake pops and sugar plums =) Hope everyone has a great holiday and thanks Bakerella for another wonderful book!!!!!
I usually spend the first part of the day at work (ugh, retail ;)) and then after we go to my mother in law’s house for the first part of our family celebrations
I usually spend Christmas Eve frantically finishing my baking for Christmas Day and wrapping gifts between taking things out of, and putting things into, the oven.
My favorite part of the holiday season is wrapping presents!
Christmas Eve always meant hosting a very large neighborhood party at my parents house, filled with Norwegian smorgasbord style foods and attended with our neighborhood best friends. I was responsible for all the desserts :) and my parents, the main fodder. The funniest time came when they ordered a smoked turkey from the butcher, removed all the bones, and passed it off as smoked reindeer! Those times are gone now, but the memories remain. I now cook some of the traditional foods that my grandmother passed down to me and have a trip down memory lane.
My favorite part of the holiday season is going to shopping malls and staring at huge Christmas trees are decorated with Christmas ornament in the night. I could feel breeze around and absorb this moment of the year.
We spend Christmas Eve at home with all of our family. My daughter and I bake during the day, sit down to a family dinner, walk around to see all of the Christmas lights, and leave cookies and milk out before putting on our Xmas jammies :) This is one of my favorite traditions!
My favorite part of the holiday season is being with family and baking!
We usually go to my parents’ and do a party with my extended family, but this year I will be nine months pregnant! So we’re not traveling and hoping our baby decides to come early and surprise us for Christmas. :)
We spend Christmas Eve preparing for Christmas day. Watching where Santa is and putting out milk and cookies!
We spend Christmas Eve with my husband’s family. There’s nothing better than watching all of our kids running around and opening Christmas presents together. And eating lots of yummy food! When we come home, we set out cookies for Santa and put the 2 girls to bed so that Santa can come! :)
We have clam chowder for dinner on Christmas Eve. It was a tradition my parents started when I was a kid. We finish all our advent calendars and read How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Night Before Christmas. Then we turn off all but the Christmas tree lights and read the Christmas story from the Bible.
We always have family parties and the host family makes up great homemade games for all the family to play together….they get pretty creative and are always lots of fun. Add lots of food and desserts and the night is always fun!
My favorite part of the holiday season is playing Shelf Elf for my kids. Enjoying everything through my children’s eyes is so magical and fun!
My favorite part of the holiday season is just spending time with family.
We usually spend it with the family in Spain! Love the new book!
Blessed to have all our close family living in the same town. Christmas eve is spent making various christmas treats, wrapping presents and sleep over with cousins, aunts and grandparents and of course atleast 2 different church services.
Except this year – we will be missing 2 of grandparents, going to make this holiday very sad kids and adults alike.
Christmas Eve is spent at Church. It is just my husband and I now but to this day my children talk about that was the real Christmas to them. What a beautiful night, glowing faces and candles!
We spend Christmas Eve by getting dressed up, going to church, eating dinner with the family, and opening a few presents. :-)
I love all the mint stuff that comes out! I make chocolate mint cookies with my best friends and get to spend time with them.
I usually work on christmas eve; my family celebrates on christmas day. Thank you for your generosity! Love everything you do!
We usually spend christmas eve just hanging out getting ready for christmas morning. I just love the whole chrismtas season….family, food, decorating. It’s all fun!
My favorite part : spending time with my family, but since my “real” family is in France and I’m in Canada, I’ll spend Christmas with my “other” family (friends who also left France for Montreal). And I love the food, of course (making and eating it :p).
PS : I loooove your website and all your amazing creations :) (I’m gonna try some of them this year).
We spend Christmas Eve with my family every year. We get home early enough to put out our cookies and stockings though! My favorite part is making cookies with my kids. This will be my two year olds first year to help :)
Christmas Eve is when I wrap presents because I’m so busy baking for the week leading up to Christmas!! :)
Congratulations on the new book! Looks like loads of fun!
We usually spend Christmas Eve in our new jammies (the one gift we open that night), drinking cider and hot chocolate and watching “A Muppet Christmas Carol”. Then, after the kids go to bed, I usually spend it staying up really late finishing last minute projects. This year our in-laws will be in town, so before the jammy fest, we’ll have dinner with them and play some board games.
My favorite part of Christmas is the music, decorations and spending time with the family!
I LOVE the entire holiday season!!! From now straight through the New Year. We spend every Christmas eve at my mom’s eating fish, roasting chestnuts, and opening gifts by the fire…then I go home and wrap until 3 AM…you would think I’d learn and start the wrapping early. NOPE it’s tradition! :)
Christmas Eve this year we will be starting new and doing old traditions! Going to my aunts to eat Tamales! Then off to do a act of kindness with my kids, next….coming home to put out milk and cookies for Santa! Kids get to open only one gift, read them a Christmas story then off to bed, or Santa will not come unless they’re alseep! ;) Then time for Santa (mommy) to fill the tree with gifts and stockings, so when the kids awake…. Santa has come!! My favorite part of the holidays is doing everything for my kids and other children who are in need of Christmas magic!
Christmas Eve is my favorite day of the Holidays…we are surrounded with friends and most of all FAMILY!!!! Then stuffing the stocking for the kids is fun too! Thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of Cake Pops!!!
My family celebrates Chanukah and I think my favorite part is just celebrating with family. Of course I also love the beautiful candles all lit in the menorah, a rousing game of dreidel and crispy potato pancakes.
I LOVE the excitement the kids bring!
we spend Christmas eve at candlelight service. :-)
Christmas Eve is spent chowing down on Chinese food and hanging out with the family playing games and taking pics of the nieces and nephews.
My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with family and friends … and I believe making cake pops is going to be a new family tradition starting this Christmas =) It started making Lightning McQueen & Mater for our 4 year olds birthday in June … continued for his Daddy’s Fish Pop’s in August … and he asked to take Boo Pop’s to the Halloween Party … he LOVES them … thank you for helping us start this yummy and fun treat!!! <3
We spend Christmas Eve opening presents with my family.
Me, a cup of coffee and all the Christmas lights on…perfection
Christmas Eve is at my brother’s where the whole family has dinner together so that on Christmas day each of the new off shoot families have the opportunity to start their own Christmas traditions!!
My favorite part about Christmas Eve and the holidays is baking cookies with my family!
My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with my 3 boys and making wonderful memories together. We bake and decorate cookies, drive around looking at lights and collect keepsake ornaments. My oldest is a senior so we don’t want to miss a moment!
My favorite part is the music and decorations!
Christmas Eve with just my husband as we enjoy some down time from all the Christmas hustle.
Christmas eve is spent with my immediate family, no rushing around, no last minute baking, just a quiet night with the 5 of us. We open a few gifts and prep for Santa in the morning! My favorite thing about the holidays is baking or crafting gifts for others. We don’t have a lot of extra $ to spend on gifts, so my family makes it a point to make homemade gifts for everyone. They come from the heart and it takes time and effort to make them, not just rushing out and buying something they may not enjoy.
Favorite part is seeing family–we live states away from both sides!
We spend Christmas Eve at my parents house and my in-laws house. It is a busy day of traveling but always a lot of fun!
We spend x-mas eve with my husband’s family. Church and opening gifts.
We spend Christmas Eve with my husband’s family and then attend a midnight service at church.
I just love putting on Christmas decorations! A huge tree and lots of little lights everywhere!
Christmas Eve is spent with my husband’s family for an early dinner, followed by Christmas Eve services that night. Then the little ones set out milk and cookies for Santa. I love Christmas, such a magical time of the year.
Family dinner, and then a Christmas movie :)
On Christmas Eve, we normally go to a candlelight church service, and then drive around to look at the lights.
My favourite part of the season is helping my grandma, mum and aunts in the kitchen. It always turns into one funny packed room!
On Christmas Eve morning my husband, my son, and I go out to our favorite breakfast restaurant. We take this time to spend with just our little family before the rest of the holiday is spent with a ton of people.
My favorite part is the food and the peacefulness.
Christmas Eve we celebrate with the Polish Wigilia meal. The youngest family member (my son) looks in the East for the first star. When he sees it, dinner starts. After dinner, we go to Midnight Mass, then gets the kids ready for bed and Santa the next morning!
My favorite thing about Christmas time, is that feeling of togetherness and joy. Even when we are sharing it with strangers. Everyone is nicer and friendlier. Unless your in a store parking lot or in a line, then it’s every man for himself and watch out! Lol
On Christmas Eve, I sing in my church’s Candelit Christmas Eve service, where we enjoy time with friends and amazing music. Afterwards, family friends get together to celebrate the holiday (and some good food!!)
We go to church as a family on Christmas Eve, then all change into our pajamas (including parents and grandparents!) and ride around to see all the Christmas lights. It’s been a tradition as far back as I can remember!
Christmas Eve is spent with my parents and siblings at the farm where we grew up. We eat way to much food, open small gifts from one another, and usually play a board game or 2! :)
Christmas Eve is actually when we always opened presents as kids! We’d be at my grandparents every year, go to church with them and my aunt and uncle, then come home to open presents that santa had brought early :-)
On Christmas Eve. We all finish our last minute wrapping, make some cookies for Santa and then go out and look at all the light on the houses.
The lights and smells of Christmas are unbelievable.
I love to bake as gifts.
You cake pops are amazing!
We spend the night having a summer dinner and then we jump into the swimming pool! We spend it in Argentina with the family and is summer over there !
I always stay with my family, although we may not have any plan on that day, or any big dinner, we do enjoy the time stay together, watching TV and enjoy the peace.
i LOVE christmas songs! they’ve been playing in my dorm room since september. also, the decorations, the general cheeriness of the world, the gift-giving… everything!
Those jingle bell pops are the BEST!! :) Christmas Eve tradition at my house is watching the Santa Clause, and everyone gets new pajamas. :)
Firstly, OH so excited for your new book!
My favorite part of the Christmas season is sitting with a cup of hot spiced cider or tea and relaxing by my twinkling tree. So relaxing! Can’t wait to get my tree up!
My family always travels to Canada to spend Christmas Eve with our family ;)
I like to spend Christmas Eve opening presents with the family and then riding around looking at Christmas lights. That is what we always did as kids and I love that memory.
Christmas Eve is spent shopping for my mom with my dad and then watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” with my mom!
I spend Christmas Eve working until 2:00 pm. Then I head home, make cocoa or tea, and listen to Christmas music. If I am with someone who has cable, then I’ll settle into the “A Christmas Story” marathon.
On Christmas Eve we go to mass and then order pizza. I’m not sure when that tradition started, but it’s not Christmas Eve without it!
Our christmas Eve tradition is the our whole family(aunts, uncles, cousins and some close friends) get together at one of our cousins homes. Everyone brings a dish and lots of gifts for the 26 little we now have in the family. Santa comes around 8 pm it is so much fun to watch the little ones being called by santa numerous times. this is something we have been doing as long as I remember.
On Christmas eve each family member gets to open one present and it’s always pajamas which we then change into and just hang out together. And my favorite part of the holidays is always the food :)
I love all your creations! SO hope I win these :-D
I’m going to answer what we do on Chrisas Eve. Growing up my mom always made lasagna since we had my brother & sisters over to celebrate. Now I have my own family, I have yet to try to make it, soon, maybe this year =P But every year we each open one gift up and spend the day relaxing & enjoying our family <3
my favorite part of the holiday season is the baking, obviously!
We are crazy and still do a little last minute shopping before the stores close. Then we attend midnight mass and have homemade doughnuts and milk, before everyone passes out.
Christmas Eve is always pizza and a movie at home. It’s a nice, low-key way to spend the night as a family before all the hustle and bustle of Christmas Day. Muppet Christmas Carol is one of my top movie choices, but A Christmas Story is awesome as well!
We spend it as a family, usually some sort of pot luck, enjoying each others company
We usually spend Christmas Eve with Family. I love the holidays. So happy, such magic. <3
My favorite part of the holiday season is, well, everything! I love baking Christmas related treats, and doing Christmas crafts!
We spend Christmas eve afternoon with extended family. Then we come home and the kids get to unwrap one gift, which is always comfy pajamas to wear to bed. We bake cookies, put them out for Santa and snuggle in bed! By the way, my daughter has the cake pops toy on her Christmas list (yes, already!).
My favorite part is eating the yummy food without feeling guilty for splurging.
We spend Christmas Eve watching Christmas movies, drinking hot cocoa, and wrapping presents.
We spend Christmas Eve with our large extended family. It is always so much fun!
My favorite part of the holiday season would have to be either the time spent with family, or all of the baking I get to do.
My favorite part is spending uniterrupted time with my family and friends. Of course, there is also a lot of baking that takes place during that time as well! My favorite thing to bake each year are frosted sugar cookies.
Baking, of course!
My favorite is hanging lots of goodness for gift baskets. In so excited to try some new recipes this year and I’m already in the Christmas spirit. It’s going to be fabulous!!
I usually spend Christmas Eve reading the nativity story from the Luke and our family dresses up to act it out.
We (my husband and I) usually spend Christmas Eve with Chinese take-out, lots of good movies and wine. It’s quality “us” time since I spend most of the month of December filling orders of candy and cakes. (and cake pops too)!
Christmas Eve is spent going to the children’s mass at church, dinner, the riding around looking at Christmas lights while christmas music plays on the radio. And before the kids go to bed we always, ALWAYS watch A Christmas Story during it’s 24 hour run. And then Mommy (me) is up til the wee hours baking cookies and waiting for the kids to be in a deep sleep so Santa can come :)
We usually spend it at a church service then off to Waffle House for pancakes. Started when my husband was the choir director and we had time between the three services but I didn’t want to go home. My favorite time is watching the grandkids act like they like what we got for them.
We spend Christmas Eve with my parents & open presents that night after a traditional Christmas dinner. :)
My favorite? So many things to choose from. My mom and I host a cookie exchange every year. We’ve been doing that for about 20 years and I so look forward to it every year.
We spend Christmas Eve with my husband’s family!
I love hanging out with my growing family (nieces and nephews galore!) and enjoying the conversations about when we were young. :)
Every Christmas my Mom bakes special Coffee Cakes, when I was little she started having me help her. It’s my favorite time of the year when my mom and get spend “Girl Time” baking in the Kitchen and singing at the top of our lungs.
We get together with my husband’s family on Christmas Eve for a very traditional meal consisting of the same menu every year served on special Christmas dishes. I’m not normally a person who likes routine, but this is one day a year that, regardless of any other chaos going on in life, will be as close to the same each year. It’s nice to have a little consistency during the hectic time of the holidays.
Best part of Christmas is the fellowship. Family, friends, co-workers all together. Everyone just seems to be in a better, more harmonious mood.
My favorite part of the holiday season is watching the kids open their presents! It brings me back to when I was a younin’ and its make the holidays more cheery :)~
My favorite part is playing games with my family. I also love making lots of goodies on the days leading up to Christmas. Cookie exchanges are fun too.
Christmas eve changes from year to year, but we always let the kids open 1 present.
My favorite part of the holiday season is getting a chance to spend time with family and friends that live far away but always come home to visit around the holidays. I love the chance to hang out and enjoy the company of all my out of town friends/family and the close to home friends/family.
On Christmas eve I usually spend it with my son and family having cooking and egg nog and when my son goes to bed i finish up everything so when he wakes up the next morning everything is perfect. Thanks for the chance at an awesome giveaway…Keeping my fingers crossed would love to win…:)
Christmas Eve morning is home with the family with Papaw over for breakfast. Christmas Eve evening is at GaGa and Grandpa’s for extended family fun…and lots of food!
The best part is watching the kids’ reactions come Christmas morning. All the crazy preparations are sooo worth it!
Christmas Eve is spent with my in-laws and then a mad dash to pack to go to my family on Christmas Day….and they live 7 hours away :(
We go to Mass and Mom and Dad host a lovely Christmas Eve dinner and watch A Christmas Story…you’ll shoot your eye out!
We usually have dinner at my mom’s Christmas Eve, come home, get the kiddos in bed, watch A Christmas Story, then wrap the presents I should have wrapped weeks before!
my family always travel 700 miles every year down to Houston to spend Chirstmas Eve with our big family. also that the only time we see each other out of the whole year. Kids got to see their grandparent from both mom and dad side. We always treasure that moment.
We go to a Christmas Eve service and then to my inlaws to watch the kids go nuts while they are waiting to open their gifts!
We usually spend Christmas Eve baking with family!!
We spend Christmas eve at home where we invite family to have a meal and open presents.
On Christmas Eve, my family has dinner together, then as we eat dessert, we call my sister in the military and read “The Night Before Christmas” on speakerphone. At the line “The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,” we all hang our stockings. After, we all open one present, always a new pair of pajamas, then go to our respective homes to sleep before coming back to our parents house bright and early the next morning. :)
we go out for dim sum, and then spend the rest of the day wrapping gifts and watching movies on christmas eve
I love the food and decoration!! =)
Our family always celebrates Christmas Eve by heading to the Christmas Eve service at our church and preparing our hearts to celebrate the joy that Jesus has brought into our lives. After church we typically go out for dinner at a local Italian place, drive around town to see Christmas lights, and then head back home to snuggle up in our Christmas pj’s. One of my favorite nights of the year!
We go to church, have cheese and crackers, eat dinner and are allowed to open 1 present. Cannot wait!
My favorite part is the christmas music!!!! On Christmas Eve we usually have a dinner and after that we go see the christmas lights and then it is off to church for a candlelight service.
Your bell pops are amazingly real! Beautifully done! As for Christmas… when we’re in MD visiting our parents, my parents usually go to Christmas Eve service, my husband takes my MIL to a service Christmas morning, and I go (or stay depending on where we’re sleeping/staying) at my parents’ to get ready for the Christmas meal that my mom’s family and my MIL come for. This year though will be our 5yr old’s FIRST Christmas at home so all bets are off. I’m assuming my husband will take his mother to some service. Other than that… not sure. :)
I usually spend Christmas Eve with family-making Christmas cookies! So much fun and so many memories. :)
On Christmas Eve my mom always gives us all coordinating pjs and we sit around the tree drinking hot chocolate and vanilla milk :)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the whole season, and especially Christmas Eve. Even as an adult, there is that beautiful feeling of anticipation! We spend it at home, and my son comes home. My sister and her teen daughter spend the night, and we have “Party Food”, eggnog, hot buttered rums, and listen to Christmas music and watch Christmas movies. My husband and son sneak off for a marathon wrapping session, because they are men. lol
Christmas Eve is when we celebrate with Scandanavian traditions. Favorite part – rice pudding!!
We usually spend Christmas Eve at my sisters house. There are lots of baked goodies and traditional family dishes served. its a wonderful time of year. :-)
We have hors d’oeuvres on Christmas Eve & then open presents!
I love Christmas Eve, going to church, and then having a family gathering with cheese ‘n crackers, mini meatballs, etc., with lots of delectable treats at my sister’s house. Then, it’s time to hurry home to get to sleep, so Santa can come!
I usually spend Christmas Eve finishing up wrapping the last of the Christmas gifts. This year I may switch it up and try and do it all early… by end of November, perhaps? (I say this every year?!)