Every year my extended family on my mom's side gets together on Christmas Eve to celebrate my grandma's birthday. We also exchange gifts with the extended family on that day and we have a big feast.

On Christmas Day, my siblings and my niece comes over early in the morning and we open presents. The presents are under the tree from a few days before Christmas and on until Christmas day in which my mom has always gotten up really early to move the gifts from under the tree and into piles for each person. She'll also write little notes from Santa on the gifts for the little kids until they grow out of it. Then we have another feast for lunch that day. We used to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as well, but we haven't done that the past few years.