This giveaway brings back such fond memories of Christmas day…The men in my family have made bets and arm wrestled over Hickory Farms Summer Sausage!!! They seriously LOVE their Hickory Farms Summer Sausage and just the same, would wrestle to be the winner of this giveaway! -Chef Lea
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Now, you can have a chance to win (arm wrestling not required) – Five Beef Hickory Sampler Gift Boxes From Hickory Farms – by sharing with us one of your favorite holiday traditions.
Giveaway: All (5) Five Beef Hickory Sampler Gift Boxes ($75 Value) from HickoryFarms.com
Date:Winner To Be Announced Christmas Day – December 25, 2009
***THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED***
How To Enter: Leave a comment below and share with us one of your favorite holiday traditions or what’s a new tradition you are starting this year?
Winner Details: A winner will be selected using Random.org and announced here on December 25, 2009. Good Luck and Happy Holidays from Nesting Newbies!
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My favorite holiday tradition is the train around the Christmas tree. Memories of sneaking into the living room and racing it around the track until i was caught or it derailed. :) I think every Christmas tree needs to have a train race around it. :)
OMG, I haven’t had Hickory Farms since I was a little kid. Gosh that brings back so many memories of me shopping with my mom at the Hickory Farms store to pick out gifts for family/friends.
Holiday tradition – decorating our silver foil christmas tree and lighting it with the color wheel so it was a rainbow of colors. So 70s, but it was pretty!
My favorite holiday tradition is waking up super early on Christmas morning and opening up all of our gifts before breakfast (but after coffee). Even though I’m now married and have my own house, my husband and still spend the night at my parents house on Christmas Eve just so we can keep this tradition alive.
The tradition we’re starting this year is that the entire family is going to make their own Christmas ornaments!
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favoite tradition is that every year for our Christmas meal we serve Fondue. We have been enjoying fondue since the mid 70′s. We have the Meat Fondue, Cheese Fondue, and Chocolate Fondue( my favorite). The Cheese and Chocolate fondue are homemade and are absolutely delcious. Yummy Yummy I can’t wait!
I’m excited about starting a new holiday tradition this year…we have a 2.5 year old and a 1 year old, and our 2.5 year old is old enough to help me cook now. So Christmas morning, she is going to help me make our classic big breakfast (egg casserole, strawberry smoothies, bacon, muffins) and after breakfast, we’ll bake a birthday cake for Jesus. Can’t wait!
I like white lights on the tree, my boyfriend likes color …. so we’ve decided to alternate every year. We’ve got white this year!
My favorite holiday tradition…just being with family! I love the idea of being in the same room with so many people I love, what an amazing feeling!!!
Sadly, I won’t be able to do that this year, but we’ll Skpye each other.
I’d love to win. I bought a box for my dad for Christmas this year.
We always do an advent wreath and light the candles at dinner in preparation for Christmas.
My favorite is cranking up the christmas music with my mom and then baking approximately 30,000 cookies!
My favourite holiday tradition would have to be the annual yule get together I put on with a couple friends and their families. :)
My favorite holiday tradition is baking for everyone!
We always hang our stockings that my late Grandma needlepointed for us and read the messages that she put in each one for us. Such fond memories of a wonderful woman!
Hickory Farms! OOh reminds me of Christmas with my foster mom. My new holiday tradition this year is celebrating with my new Austrian in-laws; full of yummy baked German sweets/cakes!!
My favorite holiday memory – My family is from Mexico and for days before Christmas eve my mom, aunts, grandmother and her friends would come over and prepare tamales (dozens of them) for the big dinner. Women would sit around the table, laughing and talking, while the kids would orbit around them. The smells of fresh pastries and wonderful foods in a warm cozy home bring back the fondest memories…
A Christmas tradition we started in 1983 when our oldest daughter married followed by our youngest in 1985. How do we do the Holidays so it’s fair for both families especially when there was a matter of distance involved. We came up with a plan to have the girls every other Holiday. When we have them for Thanksgiving, they went to their in-law’s for Christmas and when we had them for Christmas they went to their in-law’s for Thanksgiving. It has always worked out for us and I feel is what Christmas is all about sharing and love for both families.
My favorite tradition is our Christmas Eve night. We have dinner (ham and wild rice soup with johnny cake) and then go to church. When we get home, we exchange presents =)
My favorite holiday tradition is the cookie baking day that my mom and I have with my sisters every year. This year, my aunt and I are also in an all out battle to see who can come up with the best dessert recipe for our Christmas Eve gathering :)
My favorite thing is reading the Christmas story of Jesus on Christmas Eve.
I would love to be entered in your giveaway, my favorite tradition is that we light tea lights christmas eve and christmas day for all that are no longer with us, we light 5, and the flicker of the candle helps us and lets us know they are still with us. We also give the grand kids a new pair of pj’s to wear to bed the night before christmas, they love it
Our tradition is to deliver Secret Santa cookie plates to people we know and love each year.
My favorite Christmas tradition is packing up a box for Operation Christmas Child.
My favorite Christmas tradition is staying up really late on Christmas Eve and opening gifts after midnight mass. No one in my family ever liked getting up early on Christmas morning anyway!
We always leave a bourbon and coke to get Santa a little tipsy. Haha.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the Christmas Pageant at our church on Christmas Eve. It’s always so much fun and I love the fake camel and the little angel dancers.
my hubby and I have had some rough spots in our relationship and unfortunately we have never had any true traditions. This year (Sunday last, to be specific) we have decided to create some of our own. We are putting up a miniature tree and will make little tiny presents with giant gifts inside them…the gifts will be the reasons we love each other and the Lord. And we will open them on Christmas morning with a prayer that we can serve Him better in the coming year.
I hope this will count – thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite Holiday tradition is the Peppermint Pig. Who doesn’t love grabbing a hammer adn smashing some candy?!
One of my favorite traditions is inviting my friend’s six children over for a cookie baking and decorating day! The giggles and smiles always cheer me while getting some of the harder-to-do-by-myself treats made for Christmas.
A new tradition I’m starting this year is wrapping up one present for my cute little kitty!
My family tradition is making cookies and fudge with my mother and sister. Sometimes we are all home to make them together or it can be just two of us doing it. Anyway, I have fun doing it and enjoy the smells of the cookies and fudge.:)
Merry Christmas!!!
My fave memories are those my children, husband and I are making now. We make hot choc. for Santa and sprinkle Reindeer food (oats and glitter) on the front lawn on Christmas Eve. We open Christmas pj’s on Christmas Eve and read the NIght Before Christmas from when I was a kid. I love the traditions that I am carrying on from my childhood and new ones we are creating as a family.
My favorite tradition is decorating our tree with homemade ornaments. The kids all enjoy making popcorn chains, paper chains, and ornaments.
Lisa Q
We just started a new one this year. Have soup for dinner and make ginerbread houses the Monday before Christmas. I had never make a ginerbread house before. We had a blast!
My favorite Christmas tradition are the stockings. My mom always goes above and beyond when it comes to the stocking stuffers. I remember looking forward to Christmas morning and being able to open my stocking. We were allowed to open our stockings when we woke up, but had to wait for Mom and Dad to get up before presents were opened. I am now grown with children of my own. Mom no longer does stockings for us “big kids”, but she puts them together for all of her grandkids. Now, instead of looking forward to opening my own stocking, I look forward to watching my boys open theirs!!
My favorite Christmas tradition starts before Christmas. My sister and I and all our kids get together at my Mom’s house to bake cookies. The day is full of laughter, fun and flour. Hugs from Paraguay
One of my favorite traditions is making sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles with my mom. I can’t wait to start having that as a tradition with my family!
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My family always has pizza on china with strawberry daiquiris on Christmas Eve. It’s my favorite thing!
My mom and I follow our family (Peruvian) tradition of making a huge and extravegant natavity scene (Nacimiento) covering half of the living room. We have little animals, a forest made of left over Christmas tree branches, huge mountains with tons of different scenarios that lead up to the birth of baby Jesus. Over the years we have added to our collection and I would notice my childhood toys missing….when Christmas came, I could always find them in this Nacimiento. It always makes me laugh to remember finding Darth Vader hanging out with the 3 Wise Men. LOL
My little one is 2 this year and so I am starting a bunch of new traditions now that she is a little older and can participate. Christmas cookies for Santa, Gingerbread House you name it!
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My favorite holiday tradition is leaving cookies for Santa :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
My favorite tradition is staying up ’til midnight Christmas Eve and then letting the kids have at it because it is “technically” Christmas at that point! My daughter (now 27) started this when she was 9 and we still continue to this day…FUN!
My favorite Holiday Tradition is opening presents on Christmas Eve as we have been doing this since I was a kid and now we do it with the grandchildren :-)
I make quiche every xmas morning…have been doing this with the hubby since we got marries!
for Christmas morning my family and my husbands family have breakfast and than open presents
Big party on Christmas eve, wake up hella early on Christmas day! :)
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We make homemade apple cider and watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” with the whole family after Christmas Eve dinner.
We like to decorate the tree as a family.
On the day after christmas we strip the tree and take it outside. Then we redecorate it with edible popcorn garlands for the birds.
Our holiday tradition is Christmas Eve at my parents house – and lots and lots of baking of course!
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my kids and leaving them out for Santa!
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Our family tradition is to make something special for Christmas Eve dinner. This year it’s home made from scratch macaroni and cheese and artichoke dip with baguettes!
My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas Eve. Just before bedtime, we bundle the kids up with coats and blankets – grab some hot cocoa and drive around looking at Christmas lights. Then when we get home, it’s off to bed to wait for Santa!!
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Our favorite holiday tradition is after our grand dinner, we clean up the table, put on another table cloth and play mah jong while eating desserts and sipping on tea! We pack up the fam and the pets in the car and drive to see Christmas lights!
My family goes to my parents’ house on Christmas Eve and we have Swedish food (crackers, cheese, fish), listen to Christmas music, and play games. I love it!
My new holiday tradition is STAYING HOME this Christmas!! We were so tired of running around during the holidays, we made a decision to stay home, host an “open house” (snacks, drinks, desserts) and anyone who would like to stop by, can do so. I am very excitied about taking my Christmas back, and getting relief from all the traveling!
Our family tradition at Xmas to take turns opening gifts – the youngest goes first!
Every Christmas Eve I read The Night Before Christmas to the grandkids.
Ever since I was little we have always had the the tradition to sing Christmas songs while my Grandma would play the piano…to this day we still carry on the tradition.
my favorite holiday tradion is sending and receiving christmas cards and notes from family and friends.
My favorite holiday tradition is everyone getting together at my grandma’s house, sharing a home-made dish & exchanging gifts while spending quality family time together.
Our tradition is Swedish Smorgasbord with the family on Christmas Eve
Our tradition has been for Santa to arrive at our house at midnight…the kids all sit and wait..the house is still full at that point. The new tradition is going to the same mass together as opposed to splitting up.
My favorite traditions all involve food. :-) The cookies I bake with my mom, the cherry salad we make from my Grandma’s recipe and other delicious treats that we have year after year.
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Putting special ornaments on the tree
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I love listening to Raffi’s Christmas CD while opening my stocking! Yes, as an adult I still get a stocking from Santa!
I like the white elephant gift exchanges.
My tradition is playing christmas songs.
My tradition is…traditional. I love lighting up the tree, burning some candles, sitting by the fire and reading the Christmas Story from Luke on Christmas Eve. Follow that up with carmel popcorn and a viewing of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town!”
Traditions! I love them! They bring the family together and give the little ones something to remember. I like doing the advent calendar with the little gift for each day. Something exciting for each of the 25 mornings!
My favorite holiday tradition is adding a new Christmas tree ornament to my collection. My parents started me on this tradition when I was 6 years old. Ever since I have searched holiday stores each year, looking for that special ornament. Sometimes I pick one that represents a major change in my life, such as a snowmen representing the new city I moved to for my freshman year of college. Othertimes it’s one of whimsy and fun, like the oversized “little red riding hood” ornament, still my favorite! I’m in my early 20s now and this is still a tradition I love–and will definitely start with my own children someday.
One of our traditions when I lived with my parents was having fired Hickory Farms beef stick with a sweet dipping sauce for breakfast!
One of our traditions is to open one gift on Christmas Eve after dinner. It’s a nice time and helps the kids get through the looong wait until Christmas morning!
My daughter and I did something new this year. We handmade our Christmas cards to family members/close friends. Alot of work but it was worth the effort :0
First of all, my hubby loves, loves, loves these sets from Hickory Farms! My favorite tradition is baking gingerbread girls and boys and decorating them with my mom! Since I’ve loved that so much for so long and recently moved away from my family I’ve started hosting a cookie exchange with friends and neighbors. We had such a blast this year that I plan to keep this one as a “tradition” for sure. Thanks for the great blog and super-fun giveaway! :)
Our family tradition is tamales Christmas eve, I love them and always look forward to them on Christmas eve.
Every christmas morning my family makes crepes together for breakfast! with nutella and peaches yummm
advent calendar — kids love it!
Our Elf on the Shelf always gets into snacks the week before Christmas and leaves them all over the counter. He also toilet papers the bathroom. Our tradition is the Elf on the Shelf. Fun
My favorite christmas tradition is watching the marathon of A Christmas Story while snuggling with my husband.
This year we started having a fondue dinner when we put up our tree. My sons really seemed to like it and I thought it made it really special.
my favorite holiday tradition is to put up our nativity scene so I can imagine what it was like the day the Christ child was born.
Favorite holiday tradition is making popcorn balls with the children and enjoying them while watching holiday movies.
My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree with Christmas music playing.
Our family drives through a park filled with hundreds of lights and decorations!
I love hot spiced cider on Christmas morning, with the pjs on that we opened up on Christmas eve!
One of my favorite holiday traditions has to do with the way our family opens gifts. When I was about 5, my family started opening gifts “in the round”. One by one, youngest to oldest, each person would open one gift at a time. This allows for the whole family to see what gifts are given, pictures to be taken, and the time to be savored.
Merry Christmas!
I love making beignets with the family on Christmas morning.
One of my favorite Christmas tradition is the kids performing (dancing, singing, reciting a poem), bingo games for the adults, and then to close the morning of 25th we have the traditional exchanging of gifts
Opening one gift Christmas eve and then going to midnight service.
We are a new family and will be making much delicious food and being together.. not too different but we love it!
Writing letters to Santa on Christmas eve… no matter how old you are!
One of our favorites is to decorate the tree with ornaments collected over the years.
Our favourite Christmas tradition is eating a simple Shepherd’s Pie before heading off to Midnight Mass.
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The stockings are my favorite tradition… It is seriously the best part of opening gifts!
Thanks for the amazing giveaway!!!
Merry Christmas!
Our tradition is the stockings. I didn’t have them growing up and now we go a little crazy with them. They don’t just bulge, they overflow and often require backup stockings. I care more about what goes into those than the real presents.
Breakfast for dinner – our new holiday tradition we started tonight!
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I love everyone standing around cooking dinner and snacking!
Our favorite tradition is making Christmas cookies and giving them away.
My family tradition is to have Christmas Eve with only my Husband and children and MIL. And we have Christmas day with my extended family at my parent’s home.
My favorite tradition is go to feed wild duck in the river just before the christmas dinner.