Originally Posted By sherrytodd My turn! Describe your favorite holiday and how do you typically celebrate.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd My favorite is probably Fourth of July. My whole family gets together and BBQ's. It's the one time of year that I make ribs and my Grandma's potato salad, Mmmmmmm. My sister and I always go overboard at the Fireworks stands. We have our own fireworks and then watch the big city display. I'm really excited this year, because from my new house I have a perfect view of the fireworks from my deck, plus you can look out across Denver and see the other firework displays too. When it's Fourth of July it is officially summer for me.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Christmas...which starts at Thanksgiving and end after New Year's. We "Deck the Halls" and honor many family traditions. It isn't quite the same since we live in South Florida...but it is still my favorite.
Originally Posted By 4Disnee Christmas is my favorite because we decorate just like wahooskipper right after Thanksgiving and we go all out on it. I love being with our family on all the holidays.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 Christmas for us too. We decorate right after Thanksgiving and leave it up until Three Kings Day. We really go all out around the whole house. We also do a lot of baking and candy making to give out to friends and family. Christmas dinner is at our house always with my side and hubby's side of the family coming over.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Halloween is my favorite! I set up my Dept 56 Halloween houses throughout the house, bring out the Halloween linens, dishes, DVD's and decorate the front and back of the house with pumpkin lights and ghosts. There is something about the colors orange and black that set my heart pumping, LOL! I like it even more now that we get to go to DCA each year for Mickey's Halloween Treat Christmas is a very close 2nd, I also decorate like crazy but I just switch up all my Halloween orange and black for Christmas red and green Thanksgiving is the one holiday gathering we have at our house. On that day the decorations are are Thanksgivingish with all my Christmas Dept 56 villages up. I thought the family would think I was nuts but they enjoy looking at my villages and we always say that it's snowing someplace
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost My Birthday...it is the one time that I don't have to remember to get a card, buy a gift or plan a party.
Originally Posted By tapdancemom Christmas is my favorite holiday. We usually put the tree up soon after Thanksgiving, it's artificial so ealy is no problem. My grandson and I love to put the Christmas Village up early December and of course the Natvity under the Tree. We go to Christmas Eve service at church and then out to dinner. DGS gets to open a present or two before bed but the rest is left for the morning. I make cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast and we usually drive to the coast for Christmas day with my sisters and their families.
Originally Posted By Ursula It's a little know holiday called mybdaybffbdayanniversarydhbirthdaywdwvacationt-dayniecebdaychristmasnewyear's. It lasts from Sept. 29 to Jan.2nd. I suggest you all come alone and join in the fun. It's activity-packed, and there is something going on every weekend.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Definitely Thanksgving. It's all about family and friends. And food. ; )
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Halloween. I love dressing up and going to parties and taking the day off to go to my son's school parade and then trick-or-treat with the kids. I'll be sad when he's too old for it all. A close second is 4th of July. The closest Saturday to the 4th I go down to LA to my friend's annual all night poker party. On the day we usually go to another friends house for a bb-q pool party. When it gets dark we either light off fireworks in the cul-de-sac in front of her house or walk down to the beach for a bon-fire and fireworks. We can usually see or hear the municipal fireworks from her house. I also like Thanksgiving and Christmas because it's a time for the family to get together (which doesn't happen often because we live in California, Arizona and Pennsilvania).
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS <I'll be sad when he's too old for it all.> Don't worry, AD, if your kids are anything like mine, they will never be too old for it. Brit's almost 18 and we both still dress up!! The only thing you'll miss is the parade itself, but by that time you'll have a niece or nephew or grandkid to share it with all over again. Needless to say...Halloween is my favorite as well.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 It's a combo of Thanksgiving and Christmas. I prefer to just call it the Holiday Season because once Thanksgiving week starts it's holiday madness in my house and I love it. I love Thanksgiving because it's just a meal and my family/friends enjoying eachother's company. It's also Tamale weekend. I LOVE decorating and celebrating Christmas from a spiritual standpoint and from what I believe is the good will and generosity that can be spread through out the Holiday Season. So the bigger the better for me, more parties, more dinners, more food!
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 <<I prefer to just call it the Holiday Season because once Thanksgiving week starts it's holiday madness in my house and I love it.>> Yeah I was going to say the same thing. For us Thanksgiving is the beginning of the holiday season, which is our favorite time of year.
Originally Posted By RAM1984 Christmas hands down. It is just such a great time of year with the dark winter days beginning to lengthen. Even when we lived in Hawaii and the Santas were wearing short pants and rubber slippers. It is just always a joyful time for me. I do love all holidays. Any reason to get together and eat and play my family will jump on.
Originally Posted By Mickey4President Does a WDW vacation count? lol For me, hands down Christmas. I love the entire month of Christmas music, and everything that comes with the holiday. Christmas Eve before the DS’s go to bed, and after we set our cookies and hot chocolate for Santa, and reindeer food on the lawn, I read “Polar Expressâ€.(Each year, I try and read the last page without crying. Oh well, maybe this next Christmas I can do it.) Normally on Christmas day, we open up presents in the morning at our house just the 4 of us. Then we go to whichever grandparent’s house gets the boys for that year. Every other year we spend it at my parents, the other spent at DH’s parent’s house.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan my favorite holiday is probably christmas. we do lots of baking and have a family get together, and we exchange gifts, well the younger ones like the cousins do. the older ones like myself, and my aunts and uncles and grandparents all of a ornament exchange that we do. its a fun game were you can still someone elses ornament but the ornament can only be stolen three times before it becomes unavailable. its fun. and then sing xmas carols.
