Favorite Holiday Essay

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Ffavorite Holiday Every morning on December 25th instead of waking up to school and homework, I wake up to the anticipation and excitement of Christmas day with my family. Christmas is my favorite holiday because my family and I have an extravagant dinner. We decorate the Christmas tree at Christmas time together too. Family, decorating, and a great dinner I think make a great Christmas. I truly love having my family around at Christmas time. I like having family around at Christmas because we make yellow sugar cookies that give the whole house a wonderful aroma. We also play board games like Risk, Scrabble, and Monopoly although I always win. Sometimes we watch old movies: Casablanca, Home Alone, and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, our favorite part from Home Alone is when Kevin spends $900 in room service and his dad finds out later and punishes Kevin. We also like making gingerbread houses together, my cousin Lauren always makes the best gingerbread house. At last, we open the presents I usually make the gifts that I give like this year made my sister an I Pod holder out of yarn. This is what makes having my family around at Christmas time special. At Christmas time we also like to decorate the Christmas tree. Decorating the Christmas tree is fun because we get to build a train out of Legos that goes faster than the speed of light around the Christmas tree. After we do that we race the train against a remote control car. Another thing we do to decorate the tree is we build the tree because we have an artificial tree. After we do that we hang the multi colored lights. The lights magestically sparkle red and green when it is dark in the room. After hanging the lights we hang the ornaments. We have about 500 ornaments which forces us to use five trees we even have a British tree, but my favorite ornament is a tie between the Big Ben ornament, the

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