Ultimate Holiday Giveaway – Round Two!
**update** This contest is now closed. Congrats to our BIG winner, Kristin Clove!
We have more items to add to our Ultimate Holiday Giveaway and another opportunity to enter this Fabulous Swag Giveaway!
Along with all of the amazing items featured in our first Ultimate Holiday Giveaway post, the giveaway prize will also include the following:
A tee of your choice from Bitty Braille
A tee of your choice from StinkyKids
A Bella Hat AND a Buster Hat from the Short Hat Company
A $40 Gift Certificate to Tote and Tee
A set of Mommy and Me Muffatees from Go Baby
President Not Princess Tee from Polkadot Patch Boutique
2 sets of Walking Wings from Upspring Baby
10 Custom Cards from Goosie Cards
A DVD/CD Combo Pack from Zen Baby
A $25 Gift Certificate to Kids Central Kitchen
A Customized Tee from Baby Candy
A Ritzy Nurser from Itzy Ritzy
A Mini Patchwork Bear Set from The Patchwork Bear
25 Holiday Photo Cards from Paper Locket
Whew…are we excited yet?
For a second chance to win this Ultimate Holiday Giveaway, leave a comment on this post and tell us one of your family’s favorite holiday traditions – this should be fun!
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You now have until midnight PST Sunday December 7th to enter. Winner will be announced on December 8th!
Good luck and thanks again to all of our fabulous sponsors!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
My favorite family tradition is going out the weekend after Thanksgiving and picking out our Christmas Tree. This year was no exception. We bundled up, headed to the tree farm and scouted out the perfect tree for our Christmas Season. We then hurried home and decorated all evening! My 15 month old daughter had a grand time ‘helping’ me with the ornaments…. the felt ones of course.
The next round of family fun begins this weekend when my sister will come over and we will bake Christmas cookies!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
WOW! A second chance with even more goodies…love this blog! My favorite holiday tradition WAS playing scrabble on the holidays. Now with kids it’s taking as many pictures as we can of the kids unwrapping gifts with wrapping paper all over them and the floor! Thanks for the chance, lys76 at msn dot com
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
My favorite family tradition is to sing Christmas carols before we open presents. Then my grandfather reads the Christmas story from the Bible. It helps us to remember the purpose of Christmas!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
This giveaway is so great!
My favorite family tradition is taking one evening during the Christmas season and driving around looking at all of the lights and decorations. We take hot chocolate and listen to Christmas music on the radio. It is so great!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
OMG! Great great finds!!
My fave tradition is making risotto with the whole family on Christmas Eve. We aim to eat early but it always ends up with us eating late. But no one minds. We sit and eat and talk and drink wine, it’s so so nice.
My sister usually leads the cooking – following my Grandmother’s recipe. Then we each take turns stirring and stirring (if you’ve made risotto then you know you need to stir stir stir!). It’s special and always made with love.
This year we will all be separated by miles but each of us will make our own risotto and take pics to share with the whole extended family.
Thanks for this giveaway Megan!
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 am
Our favorite holiday tradition is baking together! We love to all cram into our smallish kitchen, with flour and sugar flying, and create together! The smell in the house is amazing, and everyone is thrilled with the results. We usually experiment with a new cookie or two each year, but there are also a couple of favorites that are always on the list.
I love cooking with my young kids. It’s a wonderful learning and sharing activity!
Oh – and this giveaway is amazing! Thanks so much, and happy holidays to all.
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
We love card making and gift wrapping!!
Plus baking cookies has always been fun together! Happy holidays!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
We all have Christmas brunch together before we open gifts
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
We have to have Pillsbury cinnamon rolls Christmas morning – nothing else will do! When my grandma was still alive, we would open her gift to us on Christmas Eve to keep it separate..and make it special. Also, we always play lots of games, thanks so much for another chance!
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
My favorite family tradition is making a large variety of Christmas candies and cookies with my grandma. We take a whole day and fill the kitchen and dining room with the goodies. Then we package them up and share them with everyone we know. In the past few years, I have included my two girls – now 2 1/2 and 1 – in the tradition with the hope they will continue it. They love to sample the sweets!
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
We have so many traditions that I just love. Going to pick out our tree, decorating it while listening to carols or watching Christmas movies…we especially love the old Scrooge with Alastair Simms in black and white. We do a cookie exchange each year, so we much on plenty of goodies, too! I love watching the kids open their stockings I handmade for them. But I think the best thing of all, is 11pm church on Christmas Eve when we each hold a lit candle and sing Silent Night.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
We’re going to start a new one this year… writing thank you cards immediately!
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
A second chance??? Oh my.. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!!!
A few of the traditions we have:
Putting up the decorations and the tree involves…
*Saturday afternoon
*Christmas music blasting from all the TV’s and the computers
*Hot cocoa/Pumpkin Spiced Lattes
*Silly dancing around with everyone
*Tears (I cry a lot)
*The building of my holiday village.
*Getting oranges, lemons and limes and piercing them with whole cloves.
*Handmade gifts for Yule
I love it all… it’s a wonderful season, and I still get all butterfly-ish, and cry because I’m excited!
December 4th, 2008 at 12:04 am
We open gifts on Christmas Eve and spend the night laughing and enjoying family, then the next day we have a huge huge brunch that lasts at least 4 hours and we all stuff ourselves and enjoy the day. Relaxing and being with family
December 4th, 2008 at 6:54 am
It all starts on Christmas Eve, together with everyone, wonderful food, grandma’s homemade candies,Johnny Mathis in the air. Then home to get ready for Santa. Everyone gets to open one one gift from under the tree. Kids in new Christmas jammies, get the cookies ready for Santa & carrots ready for the reindeer. We all hop in bed to read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” from the same book my Mom read it to me from. I check with NORAD and let them know where Santa is and tell them to hurry & get to sleep. I sneak out for midnight mass. Home again to assemble and wrap. Never enough sleep – always the best holiday!
December 4th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I added your button to my super new page. Trying to figure everything out.
http://wishingpenny.blogspot.com/
December 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
singing christmas carols. (and staying up til midnight on christmas eve to open a present)
December 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
We always watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated version).
December 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
My favorite traditions all take place BEFORE Christmas. I am really loving, for example, our new tradition of Kid Craft Weekly’s handmade holiday card swap. We make ten cards and send them out to the list of people we’re given and we get cards from ten different people all over the world.
December 4th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
New PJs are a must. We watch Mr. Kreuger’s Christmas almost every night. And this year we’ve added a new tradition for the benefit of my toddler son…going to Zoolights at the National Zoo to usher in the magic of the season with the twinkly lights.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
a favorite holiday tradition is our xmas eve yankee swap!
December 5th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Each year we make something not so traditional for Santa. This year we are going to make homemade peppermint ice cream. Yum!! Johnny loves making ice cream and we do quite a bit in the summer…so why not in the winter! Last year we went with a veggie plate with some Garlic Garlic dip from Tastefully Simple. We’ve also left Santa BBQ meatballs and a fruit salad. It’s totally up to the kids…whatever THEY want to make and leave for Santa, we make happen. It’s fun to see what they come up with! I hope that this is something that they will carry on and do with their kids when they are parents!
seeryusfam@msn.com
December 5th, 2008 at 5:31 am
what my family does on x-mas is well we have a x-mas eve dinner and then we all open one gift each the rest wait on tell the big day and well we let cookies out for santa (aka mom and dad) and well we put the kid to bed and then santa comes and then when its that big day the kid wakes up and is happy that santa came we also have a countdown starting the day right after turkey day and well we put out all the things for x-mas we get it ready to well look realy nice but this year well it will be diffent becuse well its a new x-mas for me and my little one any way please enter me in to the giveaway thanks
December 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
One of my favorite traditions it making reindeer food with me son (we just mix up dry oatmeal and sprinkles). On Christmas Eve, we take it outside and leave it on the lawn. Last year, my son was so upset because he thought I should crawl up and put it on the roof. Needless to say, that didn’t happen, but it made for a sweet memory. Thanks for the chance to enter!
princess3sah(at)cs(dot)com
December 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
My favorite Holiday tradition is watching my nieces open their stockings before we3 have our large Christmas breakfast. After breakfast, it’s opening the gifts and then hanging out and enjoying the day.
December 6th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Wow, more cool stuff! Do I need to comment again since I already commented on the original giveaway post with the blog URL where my button is? The website changed, but it still forwards.
Our favorite holiday tradition is actually a gathering of cousins (my husband’s family) at my in-law’s house for New Year’s. It’s about the only time of year we get to see each other and it’s just so much fun! Playing games all night, doing random make-over’s/spa things (you can tell which are girls and which are guys, right?
and just talking!
December 6th, 2008 at 1:02 am
We eat homemade tamales with our extended family on Christmas eve — yum yum!!
December 8th, 2008 at 2:28 am
My husband myself and our children have to start some new traditions because neither of us grew up in a house with many traditions. We have decided to have a Xmas pajamas tradition. All 4 of us will wear some cute Christmas pj’s on Xmas Eve. That should be fun! Also we pick out an ornament at The Disney Store every year.
Lee